Music in the Seventeenth Century

Contents

• Italian versification: a note Steven Botterill;
• Part I . The Early Decades:
• 1. The seventeenth-century madrigal;
• 2. Giovan Battista Marino and the poesia per musica;
• 3. Music for solo voice;
• 4. Claudio Monteverdi before 1620;
• 5. The 'crisis' of the seventeenth century;
• 6. 'Concerto';
• 7. Monteverdi after 1620;
• 8. The classification of styles;
• 9. Scientific thought and musical theory;
• 10. Theory and practice;
• 11. Musical publicity;
• 12. Music publishing and music collecting;
• 13. Social condition of the musician;
• 14. Instrumental and dance music;
• Part III . Sacred Vocal Music:
• 15. Music in the Catholic liturgy;
• 16. Catholic devotional music;
• 17. The music of the lutheran Church: Heinrich Schutz;
• 18. Sacred music as music of the State: France and England;
• Part IV . Opera:
• 19. The historiography of opera;
• 20. Opera before 1637;
• 21. The Venetian theatres;
• 22. The diffusion of opera in Italy;
• 23. Formal and dramatic convention; the lament;
• 24. Opera in German-speaking lands: Vienna and Hamburg;
• 25. The tragedie lyrique: Jean-Baptiste Lully;
• 26. Theatrical music in England and Spain.