A History of Baroque Music
- Author: Buelow, George
Given the availability of numerous sophisticated surveys on Baroque music history, this reviewer was astonished that this tome exceeded expectations regarding scope and focus. In an effort to... — More…
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$94.50Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: "Baroque" as an historical concept
- Part I: The Baroque in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 1: The Renaissance in Transition-Origins of New Musical concepts
- Chapter 2: Baroque Innovations in Italy to circa 1640
- Chapter 3: Claudio Monteverdi (1567=1643)
- Chapter 4: The Baroque in Italy from c1640 to c1700
- Chapter 5: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713 and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
- George J. Buelow
- Chapter 6: The Baroque in France
- Chapter 7: Sacred Music in Northern and Southern Europe and Austria in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 8: Secular Music in Northern and Southern Europe and Austria in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 9: Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
- Chapter 10: English Music during the Stuart Reign, the Commonwealth and the Restoration
- Chapter 11: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- Chapter 12: Music in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
- By Rui Vieira Nery
- Chapter 13: Music in Eastern Europe
- by Ennio Stipcevic, Metoda Kokole, and Claudia Jensen
- Part II: The Baroque in Transition
- Chapter 14: Music in Italy
- Chapter 15: Opera at Hamburg, Dresden, and Vienna
- Chapter 16: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- Chapter 17: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Chapter 18: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors