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

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Author:   David Schulenberg (Professor, Professor, Wagner College, Staten Island, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780199942015

ISBN 10:   0199942013
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Schütz 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 Pièces Later Baroque Keyboard Music J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments Eighteenth-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

Reviews

"""This text covers the basics with clarity and efficiency.""--Charles E. Brewer, Florida State University ""Music of the Baroque is beautifully written. I'd recommend the text and its accompanying anthology by praising the clarity of the writing style, the English translations, the boxes in every chapter, the diversity of the material, and the extraordinary attention to musical detail. It offers an excellent introduction to the major composers, styles, and genres of the Baroque period.""--Alexis Luko, Carleton University"

I suspect that most teachers of the baroque period will know and recommend the volume. It reads well, and given the space, it manages to offer some detail on the music selected for attention. * Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review *

I suspect that most teachers of the baroque period will know and recommend the volume. It reads well, and given the space, it manages to offer some detail on the music selected for attention. Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review

Author Information

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.

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