Music of the Baroque / Edition 3

by David Schulenberg

Overview

Music of the Baroque, Third Edition, and its accompanying anthology of scores offer a vivid introduction to European music from 1600 through 1750. Integrating historical and cultural context with composer biography, music analysis, and performance practice, the text surveys Baroque music while analyzing in depth more than thirty works from the principal traditions of the period. It also places special emphasis on the evolution of instruments and performance practices, showing how the period shaped them into what we know today.

Organized by chronology and genre, the third edition expands the discussion of social and cultural issues through new sidebars on women in music, gender and the castrato voice, the relationship of music to ethnicity and colonialism, and other key areas of study. Also new are contemporary perspectives, including writings by composers Caccini and Couperin and critics Artusi, Scheibe, and Burney.

Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/schulenberg for a discography of the scores included in the anthology (with links to online recordings), sample worksheets, and supplementary musical scores

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199942015
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/23/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Schulenberg is Department Chair and Professor of Music at Wagner College. He is the author of The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014); The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (2010); The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach (2006); and numerous articles. He performs and records on harpsichord and other historical keyboard instruments.

Table of Contents

1. IntroductionMusic History 1600-1750: Some Basic IdeasHistorical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750Music in European History, 1600-1750The Place of Music and Musicians in SocietyPerformance Practices2. A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and MadrigalThe Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and LassusThe Madrigal3. Transitions Around 1600Some General DevelopmentsThe Basso ContinuoInstrumentsMonody4. Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical DramaClaudio MonteverdiMonteverdi's OrfeoLater WorksVenetian Opera5. Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth CenturyBarbara StrozziAlessandro Scarlatti and the Later CantataThe Dissemination of Baroque Style6. Lully and French Musical DramaThe French StyleLully's Armide7. Seventeenth-Century Sacred MusicSacred Music in Venice: Giovanni GabrieliSacred Music in Germany: Heinrich SchützSeventeenth-Century OratorioLalande and the Grand Motet8. Late Baroque OperaHandelRameau9. Late Baroque Sacred MusicJ. S. BachHandel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio10. Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and SuiteThe Lute and Its RepertoryKeyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesBaroque Keyboard Music in ItalyBaroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany11. Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and PiècesLater Baroque Keyboard MusicJ. S. Bach's Music for Solo InstrumentsEighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in FranceOther Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers12. Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The SonataThe Chief Ensemble Instruments of the BaroqueTypes of Baroque Music for Instrumental EnsembleThe Baroque Sonata13. Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and ConcertoThe Bolognese Trumpet SinfoniaThe Baroque Concerto14. A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant StyleThe Galant StyleiBibliography/iiIndex/i

Editorial Reviews

"[A]n extraordinarily well-conceived textbook and anthology.—Music & Letters

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