Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

763 books were found.

Interval: "Poems Based On Bach's ""Goldberg Variations"""

Interval: "Poems Based On Bach's ""Goldberg Variations"""...

Author: Alice B. Fogel
ISBN: 9781936182725
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"In this series of poems responding to Johann Sebastian Bach's spectacular ""Goldberg Variations,"" New Hampshire...  Read More >>

Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion

Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Companion

Author: David Schroeder
ISBN: 9781442232990
Format: Hardback
$128.00

In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional...  Read More >>

An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix: Solos for the Hautboy before 1710 based on a Symphonia/Sonata by Johann Christoph Pez that Demonstrates a Performance Practice of Adaptation

An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix: Solos for the Hautboy...

Author: Peter Hedrick
ISBN: 9781443858281
Format: Paperback
$103.47

The earliest surviving hautboy solo is a Symphonia by Johann Christoph Pez from the 1690s or early 1700s. This piece...  Read More >>

The Present State of Music in France and Italy: Or, the Journal of a Tour through those Countries, Undertaken to Collect Materials for a General History of Music

The Present State of Music in France and Italy: Or,...

Author: Charles Burney
ISBN: 9781108075381
Format: Paperback
$85.36

First published in 1771, this account by Charles Burney (1726–1814) traces one of the journeys he undertook as part...  Read More >>

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

Author: Ellen T. Harris
ISBN: 9780393088953
Format: Hardback
$65.95

An intimate portrait of Handel's life and inner circle, modelled after one of the composer's favourite forms: the...  Read More >>

Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition with Explanatory Notes

Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition with Explanatory...

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven ,  J. S. Shedlock
ISBN: 9781108078467
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Beethoven was a prolific letter writer, with thousands of examples surviving to this day. This illustrated collection...  Read More >>

Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826): From the Collection of Dr Ludwig Nohl

Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826): From the Collection...

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven ,  Grace Jane Wallace
ISBN: 9781108078498
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Beethoven was a prolific letter writer, with thousands of examples surviving to this day. This two-volume collection,...  Read More >>

Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition with Explanatory Notes

Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition with Explanatory...

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven ,  J. S. Shedlock
ISBN: 9781108078450
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Beethoven was a prolific letter writer, with thousands of examples surviving to this day. This illustrated collection...  Read More >>

Doctor Arne

Doctor Arne

Author: Hubert Langley
ISBN: 9781107437869
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Originally published in 1938, this book presents a concise study regarding the life and work of Thomas Arne (1710–78),...  Read More >>

The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics...

Author: Georgia J. Cowart
ISBN: 9780226211558
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance...  Read More >>

The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England: Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music

The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England: Benjamin...

Author: Tim Eggington
ISBN: 9781843839064
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Casts new and valuable light on English musical history and on Enlightenment culture more generally.  Read More >>

John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis: Writings on Music

Author: David Cram ,  David Cram
ISBN: 9780754668701
Format: Hardback
$305.00

John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also...  Read More >>

Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre: Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice

Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete...

Author: Margaret Seares ,  Professor Simon Keefe
ISBN: 9781472438461
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this important study, Margaret Seares places Johannes Mattheson's Pieces de clavecin (1714) in the context of...  Read More >>

The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by Other Composers: A Presentation of Evidence

The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by Other Composers:...

Author: Sedley Taylor
ISBN: 9781107421455
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Author: Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ,  John Butt (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781107681057
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Written by a distinguished team of experts, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music seeks to provide...  Read More >>

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming...

Author: Patricia Howard (Visiting Research Fellow, Visiting Research Fellow, Open University, Gomshall, UK)
ISBN: 9780199365203
Format: Hardback
$100.95

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant...  Read More >>

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach

Author: Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781107428041
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Rose takes a fresh look at the lives and social status of musicians in Bach's Germany. Analysing how musicians were...  Read More >>

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann...

Author: John Eliot Gardiner
ISBN: 9780141977591
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work...  Read More >>

The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart

The Viennese Minor-Key Symphony in the Age of Haydn...

Author: Matthew Riley (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780199349678
Format: Hardback
$195.95

In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach

The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach

Author: Andre Pirro ,  Joe Armstrong
ISBN: 9781442232907
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Offered here for the first time in English, Pirro's 1907 work is considered a masterpiece by many. Its uniquely...  Read More >>

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