| Contents |
Songs of Shakespeare's England / Craig Monson -- Love's new voice: Italian monodic song / Barbara Russano Hanning -- The rise of Italian chamber music / Mary Oleskiewicz -- Music for church and community: Buxtehude in Lübeck / Kerala J. Snyder -- The arts and royal extravagance: music at the French court / George B. Stauffer -- The songs of Solomon (Rossi) as the search for history / Michael Beckerman -- Usurping the place of the muses: Barbara Strozzi and the female composer in seventeenth-century Italy / Wendy Heller -- The Baroque guitar: players, paintings, patrons, and the public / Victor Coelho -- Seventeenth-century keyboard music in northern Europe: Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands / David Schulenberg -- Bach and the bounds of originality / George B. Stauffer -- Bach's St. John passion: can we really still hear the work--and which one? / Daniel R. Melamed -- Music in the "New World": the Baroque in Mexico and Brazil / Gerard Béhague. |
| Abstract |
This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars on Baroque music. Each focuses on a different city, court, or region, and profiles the critical developments in that location for a single genre (song, opera, keyboard music, guitar, trio sonata, etc.) and is complemented by beautiful paintings and original scores from the period. This book covers the entire span of the baroque, with topics ranging from early Italian opera in Florence to synagogue music in Mantua, from Italian women composers to the solo song in Shakespeare's England. This volume utilizes a wide variety of approaches as the contributors examine economic, religious, and sociological influences on the Baroque style. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-9635. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006008084 |
| ISBN | 025334798X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253347985 (cloth : alk. paper) |
