The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century music / Edited by Tim Carter and John Butt.

Other author Carter, Tim, 1954-
Other author Butt, John.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxxvii, 591 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music--17th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesThe Cambridge history of music
Cambridge history of music. ^A684135
Contents Renaissance, mannerism, Baroque. Renaissance ; Mannerism ; Baroque ; Some geographical problems ; Issues of style / Tim Carter -- The seventeenth-century musical 'Work'. Attempts to define a 'Work-concept' ; Some problems ; Artful artefact or social construction? ; The seventeenth century as a contradiction ; Individuality within a culture of imitation ; 'Disenchantment' and 're-enchantment' / John Butt -- Music in the market-place. The demand for music ; Polarisation and professionalisation ; Patterns of dissemination ; Musical training ; Servants, employees and entrepreneurs ; The musician in society / Stephen Rose -- Music in new worlds. Quomodo cantabimus canticum domini in terra aliena? ; Repertory and transmission ; Instrumental diplomacy ; Goa: a case-study in Portugese expansion and Jesuit patronage ; (Re)Writing colonial history in seventeenth-century Rome: Kapsberger's Apotheosis / Victor Anand Coelho -- Music and the arts. Ancients and moderns ; Order and disorder ; Motion and emotion, action and reaction ; Naturalism and illusion ; Drama and stasis / Barbara Russano Hanning -- Music and the sciences. Changing definitions: science, art and philosophy ; Music and the scientific revolution ; Galileo Galilei and the 'Two new sciences' (1638) ; Francis Bacon, natural magic and the experimental philosophy ; Mersenne: experimental science and music ; Kircher, natural magic and the harmony of the world ; Performance practice and public science ; Joseph Sauveur: a reassessment / Penelope Gouk -- The search for musical meaning. Poetics and taxonomies ; Words and music ; Modal types and tonal categories ; Signs and symbols ; Wordless rhetoric ; Text and performance ; The stile rappresentativo / Tim Carter -- Power and display: music in court theatre. Setting the stage (1): the ballet comique de la reine ; Setting the stage (2): the intermedi for La pellegrina ; The beginnings of opera ; Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Northern Italian festivals in the early decades of the century ; The Stuart court masque ; The Barberini operas in Rome ; Mid-century Italian influence in Paris and Madrid ; Ballet and opera at the French court under Louis XIV / Lois Rosow -- Mask and illusion: Italian opera after 1637. Francesco Cavalli (1602-76), Gli amori di Apollo e di Dafne (1640) ; Antonio Sartorio (1630-80), Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1676) ; Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), La Statira (1690) / Tim Carter -- The church triumphant: music in the liturgy. Places and forms of service ; Taxonomies of style ; Continuity: the stylus ecclesiasticus ; Large-scale non-concertato writing ; Small-scale writing: the concertato ecclesiastico ; Large-scale concertato settings / Noel O'Regan -- Devotion, piety and commemoration: sacred songs and oratorios. Rhetorics and texts ; Occasions ; National traditions and innovations ; Domestic motets and vernacular dialogues ; Oratories and oratorios ; The end of the century / Robert L. Kendrick -- Image and eloquence: secular song. Social contexts of secular singing ; Repertories / Margaret Murata -- Fantasy and craft: the solo instrumentalist. Instruments and their repertories ; The players ; The sources ; Performing environments ; Solo music in churches ; Solo music in the chamber ; Solo music in theaters out of doors ; Varieties of solo music / Alexander Silbiger -- Form and gesture: canzona, sonata and concerto. Canzoni alla francese ; For church and chamber ; The sonata; Ensembles ; The sonata da camera and the 'Proper exercises of nobles' ; The sonata da chiesa and the 'Consideration of the divine' ; Topoi, tonality and the churchly ; Concerto and concerto grosso ; The sonata abroad ; The German sonata and suite ; Purcell ; The stylus phantasticus / Gregory Barnett.
Abstract While this history does not depart entirely from the traditional study of musical works and their composers, there is a strong emphasis on the institutions, cultures & politics of the age, together with an interrogation of the ways in which music related to contemporary arts, sciences & beliefs.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageEnglish.
LCCN 2005005775
ISBN0521792738 (hardback)
ISBN9780521792738

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