Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

A historically situated study of the relationship between music, sound and the sublime, this book embraces familiar...  Read More >>

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

An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a broad spectrum of observations on Handel and...  Read More >>

Challenging ideas of ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ culture, Tanya Kevorkian examines five central and southern German towns...  Read More >>

This Element examines the reception of their music during this dynamic period in British musical history, and places...  Read More >>

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Personal and visual retrospective of the life and work of the conductor Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale...  Read More >>

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds...  Read More >>

Explores the history of the benefit performance in eighteenth-century Britain, revealing how benefits helped musicians...  Read More >>

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This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque...  Read More >>

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to...  Read More >>

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial,...  Read More >>

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial,...  Read More >>

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates...  Read More >>

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates...  Read More >>

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Ballabene’s Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections....  Read More >>

An early 19th-century biography written in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and later translated by Charles Sanford...  Read More >>

The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together...  Read More >>

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This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

This compilation of music by Gary Lloyd Noland (1957-) represents a sampling of his works for piano spanning the...  Read More >>