Concert music, 1630-1750 / edited by Gerald Abraham.
| Other author | Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1986. |
| Description | xx, 786 pages : music ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New Oxford history of music ; v. 6 New Oxford history of music ; v. 6. ^A159522 |
| Contents | Ode and oratorio in England. Dialogue and ode / by Rosamond McGuinness. The problem of nomenclature ; The Biblical dialogues ; Court odes ; Texts of the odes ; Literary origins ; Charles II as catalyst ; The earlier Restoration odes ; The heyday of Blow and Purcell ; Handel's birthday ode -- Oratorio and related forms / by Anthony Hicks and Gerald Abraham. The first English oratorio ; Text and music of Esther ; The chapel royal connection ; Gates's performances ; Oratorio, ode, and serenata: 1732-41 ; Oratorio at Covent Garden ; Handel's Deborah ; Athalia ; Il Parnasso in Festa ; Variety of forms: 1736-40 ; Alexander's Feast ; Il Trionfo reworked ; Saul ; Israel in Egypt ; The Cecelia Ode and L'Allegro ; An alternative tradition ; Greene's Deborah ; Boyce's David's Lamentation ; Greene's Jephtha ; Boyce's Solomon ; Messiah ; The oratorio concept ; Handel's last decade of oratorio ; Jephtha ; Arne's Judith -- Solo song and vocal duet. Italy / by Hans Joachim Marx. The chamber cantata ; The cantata in Rome ; Venetian and Bolognese composers ; Alessandro Scarlatti ; Handel's Italian cantatas ; Neapolitan cantatas in the early eighteenth century ; The chamber duet -- Germany / by Hans Joachim Marx. Diffusion of the Italian cantata ; German cantata texts ; The German secular cantata ; The German continuo song -- England / by Ian Spink. Declamatory and tuneful ayres ; Purcell and his contemporaries ; Cantata and ballade: 1710-50 -- France / by David Tunley. The seventeenth-century French air ; Categories of seventeenth-century song ; Poetic texts ; Serious songs ; Dance songs and drinking songs ; Antecedents of the cantate française ; New influences on the cantata ; Stylistic traits of the cantate française ; Cantata texts ; Development of the cantata ; The cantatille -- Music for instrumental ensemble: 1630-1700 / by Walter Kolneder. Variety of instrumental forms ; The canzon in Italy ; The canzon in the German lands ; The sonata da chiesa ; The concerto grosso ; Corelli's concerti ; Origins of the contrast principle ; The opera overture ; The French overture ; The three-movement sinfonia ; The suite ; The dominance of French influence -- Orchestral music in the early eighteenth century / by Walter Kolneder. Conditions and resources ; Constitution of orchestras ; Output of works ; The suite ; Telemann's suites ; The Charaktersuite ; The suite in Italy ; The suite in England ; Bach's orchestral suites ; The opera overture ; The orchestra in French opera ; The non-operatic overture ; The concerto grosso ; The Handelian 'grand concerto' ; Bach's Brandenburg Concertos ; Other masters of the concerto grosso ; The concerto in England ; The concerto in France ; The concerto ripieno ; The orchestra in church music ; Music of the Lutheran church ; From sinfonia to symphony ; The sinfonia in transition ; The change in melodic style ; The merging of streams -- The solo concerto / by Walter Kolneder. Solo concerto movement and solo concerto in Vivaldi ; Structure of the ritornello ; Recurrences of the ritornello ; Recapitulation ; Solo in the ritornello ; The solo sections ; Ritornello motives in the accompaniment ; The solo cadenza ; The middle movement ; Early history of the solo concerto ; Torelli's Concerti Musicali ; Torelli in Germany ; Albinoni ; Jacchini's cello concertos ; Torelli's later works ; The solo concerto in Germany ; Bach and the Italian style ; Bach and the concerto form ; The keyboard concerto ; Other means of contrast ; Quantz on the concerto ; The solo concerto in France ; The keyboard concerto in England ; The Italian solo concerto after Vivaldi ; Tartini and his school -- |
| Contents | Concerted chamber music / by Ernst H. Meyer. Music for the individual listener ; The forms and styles of 'abstract' music ; Methods of unification ; The fugal element ; Melodic and harmonic style ; Italy ; Venice ; Bologna ; Modena ; Corelli's trio sonatas ; Changes in terminology ; Austria ; Bohemia and Moravia ; Instrumental music in Poland ; Germany ; The North German school ; Central and South German composers ; Switzerland and Scandinavia ; The Netherlands ; France ; England ; Foreign influences ; Purcell and the basso continuo ; The climate of the new century ; Aesthetic characteristics ; New emotionalism ; Cosmopolitan tendencies ; New national consciousness ; Three stages of development ; The new textures ; Instruments ; Varied combinations ; The trio sonata ; The string quartet ; Classical sonata form -- The solo sonata / by Charles W. Hughes. Variations on a bass ; The canzon ; Elaboration of the bass ; The sonata da camera ; Solo music for viols ; Early Italian masters of the violin sonata ; Corelli and his influence ; Vivaldi ; Dall'Abaco ; Veracini ; Tartini ; Locatelli ; The violin in England ; Geminiani ; Other sonata composers in England ; Popular violin music ; Violin music in France ; The situation in Germany ; French influence in Germany ; Biber ; J. J. Walther ; Handel and Bach ; Bach's contemporaries -- Keyboard music: 1630-1700 / by John Caldwell. Instrumental idioms ; Secular forms and styles ; The liturgical background ; Tonality ; Frescobaldi ; Frescobaldi's contemporaries ; Southern Italians ; Italian organ music ; Bernardo Pasquini ; Pasquini's variations and toccatas ; Alessandro Scarlatti ; Spain and Portugal ; Juan Cabanilles ; French keyboard music ; Chambonnières and Louis Couperin ; Lebègue and D'Anglebert ; French liturgical music for organ ; Austria and Southern Germany ; Froberger's music ; Froberger's contemporaries and successors ; Northern and Central Germany: treatment of the chorale ; Chorale fantasia and free forms ; Secular German keyboard music ; The European periphery ; The Netherlands ; England ; The suite in England ; Purcell, Blow, and Croft ; English organ music -- Harpsichord music: 1700-1750 / by Philip Radcliffe. Introductory ; François Couperin ; Rameau ; Italy ; Scarlatti ; Handel ; Handel's contemporaries ; Suite and sonata ; Bach's variations ; Bach's miscellaneous works ; The partitas ; The English suites ; The French suites and inventions ; Das wohltemperirte [wohltemperierte] Clavier ; Musicalisches Opfer and Die Kunst der Fuge -- Organ music: 1700-1750 / by Walter Emery. The instrument ; Changes of style ; Italy ; Spain ; France ; England ; Catholic Germany ; Bohemia ; Protestant Germany ; Böhm ; J. G. Walther ; Bach ; Chorale preludes ; Trio sonatas ; Preludes, fantasias, and toccatas ; Fugues ; Types of prelude ; Bach's pupils ; Conclusion -- |
| Abstract | Concerned with ode and oratorio in English, secular song in Europe, and the whole range of baroque instrumental music from keyboard music to the solo sonata to orchestral suite and concerto grosso. Offers an overall view of a period which witnessed a proliferation of music in all genres, highlighting and discussing musical landmarks and masterpieces of the age. |
| Local note | Joyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF MUSIC, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER Music ML160 .N44. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-762) and index. |
| LCCN | 85002950 |
| ISBN | 0193163063 |
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