1st Edition
Music in the Baroque World History, Culture, and Performance
By Susan Lewis Hammond
Copyright 2016
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
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Music in the Baroque World: History, Culture, Performance offers an interdisciplinary study of the music of Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries. It answers calls for an approach that balances culture, history, and musical analysis, with an emphasis on performance considerations such as notation, instruments, and performance techniques. It... Read more
Introduction: Theories of Genre and Style in Baroque Music 1. Early Opera: Courtly and Public 2. Music and Propaganda: Music at the Court of Louis XIV 3. Instrumental Chamber Music in Italy and Abroad: Arcangelo Corelli and His Followers 4. The London Stage: George Frideric Handel’s 1735 Season at Covent Garden 5. Johann Sebastian Bach and the Lutheran Tradition
Biography
Susan Lewis is Director of the School of Music and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Victoria, Canada.
