Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

Johann Joseph Fux's reputation as a theorist and the long-term influence of his theoretical and pedagogical work...  Read More >>

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In this book, Rebecca Harris-Warrick dismantles the prevailing notion that dance in French Baroque opera was merely...  Read More >>

The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the...  Read More >>

Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting...  Read More >>

Examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan via its life within the city's most influential social institutions...  Read More >>

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The composer himself offers intriguing glimpses of his life and personality in excerpts from letters to family and...  Read More >>

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In...  Read More >>

In the eighteenth century the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of the unity (1:1) were philosophically,...  Read More >>

Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day, following a little girl called Isabelle...  Read More >>

This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies...  Read More >>

The Pilgrim Journey tells the story of pilgrimage in the Western world over the course of two millennia.  Read More >>

This book is the first thorough study of Bach's popular Christmas Oratorio in English. While giving a comprehensive...  Read More >>

A biography of the 18th century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.  Read More >>

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents...  Read More >>

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Examines the dissemination of dance music, instrumentation and performance practice, and the differences between...  Read More >>

Francesco Cavalli is credited with inventing the opera genre as we know it. Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage...  Read More >>

Drawing upon an array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, this work illuminates culture in Leipzig...  Read More >>

The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers...  Read More >>

Presents a consistent and coherent solution to many unresolved questions about the history, structure and appearance...  Read More >>

Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed...  Read More >>

The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British...  Read More >>