Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between...  Read More >>

This collection of essays presents a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider...  Read More >>

Ferdinand III played a crucial role in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in reestablishing Habsburg sovereignty...  Read More >>

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation...  Read More >>

One of the most remarkable tales in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann....  Read More >>

Concentrating on the performance of basso continuo in Italian music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,...  Read More >>

Dinko Fabris here presents an examination of the life and work of 17th-century composer Francesco Provenzale by...  Read More >>

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"Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical...  Read More >>

This book, the first of its kind, is a study of Bolognese instrumental music during the height of the city's musical...  Read More >>

In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and...  Read More >>

At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J S Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane...  Read More >>

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change...  Read More >>

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There has been no study of the Baroque cantata since Eugen Schmitz's handbook of 1914, and although many academic...  Read More >>

The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research...  Read More >>

A guide to the history of the four main woodwind instruments of the Baroque - the flute, the oboe, the recorder...  Read More >>

Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century....  Read More >>

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Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

Plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process. This book states that the...  Read More >>

A collection of chapters invited from some of the leading music researchers that consider the meanings and roles...  Read More >>

From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role...  Read More >>

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles...  Read More >>

Using the influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert's (1490-1562) music, this book reconstructs his innovative...  Read More >>