Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on...  Read More >>

The articles selected for this volume form a representative selection of the best writing on Vivaldi from the last...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the best of recent scholarly literature devoted to Handel. The articles are from...  Read More >>

This selection of essays on historical performance practice of the Baroque era includes the key essays from recent...  Read More >>

Bach scholars frequently provide excellent examples of musicological scholarship, as demonstrated by the 31 published...  Read More >>

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today...  Read More >>

The articles in this volume are a representative selection of the best scholarly writing on Purcell's music. The...  Read More >>

The field of Monteverdi studies has seen many ground-breaking contributions from musicologists in recent years....  Read More >>

When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the...  Read More >>

This book provides the first detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach's Aria mit 30 Veränderungen...  Read More >>

Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was...  Read More >>

These essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth...  Read More >>

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Music, Piety and Political Power in 17th Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics...  Read More >>

Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Isaac Vossius’s De...  Read More >>

This book seeks to redress this imbalance by providing a thorough investigation of the work’s creative process....  Read More >>

Featuring 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United...  Read More >>

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has...  Read More >>

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has...  Read More >>

This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by the musicologist John Walter...  Read More >>