Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750 / Edition 1

by John Walter Hill

Overview

Is the music of the Baroque a celebration of excess, a public display of emotion, even bizarre? Not if one carefully places the period's musical theory in its proper social, anthropological, and political contexts. Hill (musicology, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) provides a framework in which the birth of opera, changes in church, vocal and instrumental music on the Continent and in England, new themes in court music and that of the empires, and the fates of the sonata and concerto make sense. An associated website features some 170 newly edited scores. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393978000
Publication date:	03/16/2005
Pages:	525
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

John Walter Hill is a professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1984 until 1986 and serves on a number of international boards and committees. He is the author of many articles and books, including The Life and Works of Francesco Maria Veracini, Vivaldi’s Ottone in villa: A Study in Musical Drama, and Roman Monody, Cantata, and Opera from the Circles around Cardinal Montalto, 2 vols.. Articles by and about Professor Hill appear in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.