Music of the Baroque

Synopsis

Introduction. Music History 1600-1750 : Some Basic Ideas ; Historical Background : Western Europe, 1600-1750 ; Music In European History, 1600-1750 ; The Place Of Music And Musicians In Society ; Performance Practices -- A Sixteenth-century Prologue : Motet And Madrigal. The Late Renaissance Motet : Palestrina And Lassus ; The Madrigal -- Transitions Around 1600. Some General Developments ; The Basso Continuo ; Instruments ; Monody -- Monteverdi And Early Baroque Musical Drama. Claudio Monteverdi ; Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Later Works ; Venetian Opera -- Secular Vocal Music Of The Later Seventeenth Century. Barbara Strozzi ; Alessandro Scarlatti And The Later Cantata ; The Dissemination Of Baroque Style -- Lully And French Musical Drama. The French Style ; Lully's Armide -- Seventeenth-century Sacred Music. Sacred Music In Venice : Giovanni Gabrieli ; Sacred Music In Germany : Heinrich Schütz ; Seventeenth-century Oratorio ; Lalande And The Grand Motet -- Late Baroque Opera. Handel ; Rameau -- Late Baroque Sacred Music. J. S. Bach ; Handel And The Eighteenth-century Oratorio -- Music For Solo Instruments I : Toccata And Suite. The Lute And Its Repertory ; Keyboard Instruments Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries ; Baroque Keyboard Music In Italy ; Baroque Keyboard Music In France And Germany -- Music For Solo Instruments Ii : Fugues And Pièces. Later Baroque Keyboard Music ; J. S. Bach's Music For Solo Instruments ; Eighteenth-century Keyboard Music In France ; Other Eighteenth-century Keyboard Composers -- Music For Instrumental Ensemble I : The Sonata. The Chief Ensemble Instruments Of The Baroque ; Types Of Baroque Music For Instrumental Ensemble ; The Baroque Sonata -- Music For Instrumental Ensemble Ii : Sinfonia And Concerto. The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia ; The Baroque Concerto -- A Mid-eighteenth-century Epilogue : The Galant Style. David Schulenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.