Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

Begins with the innovations of Monteverdi and developments in Northern Italy. By the end of the 1670s the Baroque...  Read More >>

Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, biographical account of the life and music of Francesco Geminiani, who dominated the English musical...  Read More >>

A study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation...  Read More >>

Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central...  Read More >>

This work is part of a series which presents information on composers. Each volume offers annotated lists of all...  Read More >>

This volume is an introductory, contextual study of three centuries of musical activity at the four main eleemosynary...  Read More >>

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An examination of the 17th-century Latin role dialogue, a sung conversation on a sacred subject involving two or...  Read More >>

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Fritz Sammern-Frankenegg explores the expression of Bach's messages in the film work of Ingmar Bergman while the...  Read More >>

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine...  Read More >>

"A study of Italian instrumental ensemble music during the 17th century, based on surviving primary sources. It...  Read More >>

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Surveys the genre of the solo violin concerto in the transitional years from the baroque to the classical style....  Read More >>

This is the first volume of a magisterial survey of English music that charts its development from its beginnings...  Read More >>

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine...  Read More >>

Describes the history of bel canto singing and the voice in operatic literature. The author discusses the links...  Read More >>

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An edition with commentary of Handel's exercises for continuo playing which he wrote for the daughters of George...  Read More >>

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Albinoni has often been overshadowed by his great contemporaries, Vivaldi and Scarlatti. This reassessment, especially...  Read More >>