Susan Lewis Hammond (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Cana

Music in the Baroque World

History, Culture, and Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 situates musical events in their intellectual, social, religious, and political contexts and enables in-depth discussion and critical analysis. The companion web site provide links to scores and audio/visual performances, making this a complete course for the study of Baroque music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 203mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 804g
• ISBN-13: 9780415842761
• ISBN-10: 041584276X
• Artikelnr.: 41397277

Autorenporträt

Susan Lewis is Director of the School of Music and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

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