Music of the Baroque

Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• Music History 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas
• Historical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750
• Music in European History, 1600-1750
• The Place of Music and Musicians in Society
• Performance Practices
• 2 A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and Madrigal
• The Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus
• The Madrigal
• 3 Transitions Around 1600
• Some General Developments
• The Basso Continuo
• Instruments
• Monody
• 4 Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama
• Claudio Monteverdi
• Monteverdi's Orfeo
• Later Works
• Venetian Opera
• 5 Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century
• Barbara Strozzi
• Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata
• The Dissemination of Baroque Style
• 6 Lully and French Musical Drama
• The French Style
• Lully's Armide
• 7 Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music
• Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli
• Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schutz
• Seventeenth-Century Oratorio
• Lalande and the Grand Motet
• 8 Late Baroque Opera
• Handel
• Rameau
• 9 Late Baroque Sacred Music
• J. S. Bach
• Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio
• 10 Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite
• The Lute and Its Repertory
• Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy
• Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany
• 11 Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pieces
• Later Baroque Keyboard Music
• J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments
• Eigeenth-Century Keyboard Music in France
• Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers
• 12 Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata
• The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque
• Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble
• The Baroque Sonata
• 13 Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto
• The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia
• The Baroque Concerto
• 14 A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style
• The Galant Style
• Bibliography
• Index