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New Oxford history of music ; v. 5
New Oxford history of music ; v. 5. ^A159522
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Italian opera from the later Monteverdi to Scarlatti / by Hellmuth Christian Wolff. General ; Opera in Rome ; Venice 1630-1700 ; Monteverdi's late operas ; The librettos ; Francesco Cavalli ; Antonio Cesti ; Antonio Sartorio ; Giovanni Legrenzi ; Pietro Andrea Ziani and comic opera ; Carlo Pallavicino ; Melani and Stradella ; Opera in Vienna in the seventeenth century ; Carlo Francesco Pollaroli ; Steffani and Italian opera in Germany ; Alessandro Scarlatti ; Comic scenes -- Italian opera 1700-1750 / by Hellmuth Christian Wolff. Introductory ; Giovanni and Antonio Bononcini ; Zeno ; Metastasio ; Naples or Venice? ; Gasparini ; Lotti ; Vivaldi ; Leo ; Vinci ; Pergolesi ; Creative abundance ; Fux, Caldara, and Conti ; Handel: introductory ; Handel's librettos ; The music of Handel's operas: general ; Improvised embellishments in arias ; Handel's operas: a chronological survey ; Hasse ; Graun ; Décor and production ; Opera in Spain / by José Subirá -- The origins of French opera / by Margaret M. McGowan. Early court ballets ; Later court ballets ; French theatre: pastoral themes and machine plays ; Comédies-ballets ; Tragedy ; Italian influence ; Italian and French rivalry ; Patronage ; The Jesuits ; Perrin and Cambert -- French opera from Lully to Rameau / by Paul-Marie Masson. The nature of Lullian opera ; The birth of Lully's operatic style ; Lully's recitative ; Lully's airs ; Lully's operatic choruses ; The French overture ; Lully's orchestral movements and ballet music ; The unity of Lullian opera ; Lully's influence ; The operatic scene after Lully ; Opera-ballet ; Resurgence of Italian influence ; Campra ; Destouches ; Mouret ; Charpentier, Lalande, and minor contemporaries ; Rameau: introduction ; The 'Guerre des bouffons' ; The librettos and staging of Rameau's operas ; Rameau's recitatives ; Rameau's airs ; Rameau's ensembles and choruses ; Orchestral music in Rameau's operas ; Rameau's harmony ; Rameau's scoring ; Conclusion -- Opera in England and Germany / by J. A. Westrup. The prospects for opera in England ; Cupid and Death ; Revival of the masque ; Davenant ; Locke's later stage music ; Blow's Venus and Adonis ; Purcell ; Increase of operatic activity in England ; The intervention of Handel ; Rival English operatic ventures ; The Beggar's Opera ; Ballad opera and kindred forms: Arne ; Opera in seventeenth-century Germany ; Opera in Hamburg ; Keiser ; Mattheson and Handel ; Telemann and his contemporaries -- Church music and oratorio in Italy and Central and Eastern Europe. Italian oratorio and passion / by Hellmuth Christian Wolff. Influence of the Counter-Reformation -- Latin oratorio in the seventeenth century: Carissimi ; Oratorios in the vernacular ; Oratorio and opera ; Italian oratorio in Vienna before 1700 ; Alessandro Scarlatti ; Librettos in the early eighteenth century ; Vienna in the early eighteenth century ; Italy after 1700 ; Hasse -- Liturgical music in Italy, 1610-60 / by Jerome Roche. The concertato motet ; Psalm-setting in the grand concertato manner ; The earliest orchestral masses ; Small-scale psalms and masses: the 'two practices' ; Solo voices and instruments: 'for church or chamber' ; Church music in Rome ; Mid-Baroque tendencies -- Liturgical music in Italy, 1660-1750 / by Peter Smith. Introduction ; Rome: Carissimi and others ; Bologna ; Venice ; Vienna: Caldara ; The 'Stabat Mater', Steffani ; Naples -- Church music in Central and Eastern Europe / by Gerald Abraham. Poland ; Italo-Polish influence in Russia ; Bohemia ; Hungary -- |
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Church music in France. 1630-60 / by Denise Launay. Historical introduction ; Latin music: introduction ; Plainsong ; Fauxbourdon ; Polyphonic music: introductory ; Masses ; Polyphonic settings of the Psalms ; Motets ; Settings of French texts ; Paraphrases ; Other forms -- 1661-1750 / by James R. Anthony. Introduction ; Groups and institutions in Paris ; The royal chapel ; The Concert Spirituel ; Religious music in the Provinces ; Change of musical style ; Du Mont and Robert ; Lully ; Charpentier and Lalande: a comparison ; Charpentier's motets ; Charpentier's masses ; Charpentier's oratorios ; Lalande ; Some contemporaries of Charpentier and Lalande ; Religious music from 1700 to 1750 ; Campra ; Couperin ; Contemporaries of Campra and Couperin ; Rameau ; Contemporaries of Rameau -- English church music / by Anthony Lewis. Introduction ; The Restoration and French influence ; The declamatory style ; Choral resources ; The English idiom ; Locke ; Pelham Humfrey ; Blow ; Purcell ; Purcell's minor contemporaries: Croft ; Handel ; Greene and others -- German church music / by Paul Steinitz. Introduction. Religious and social background ; Music and the church ; Musical resources ; Italian and French influence -- The North German (Protestant) mass. Introduction ; A cappella masses ; Lied masses ; The masses of J. S. Bach -- The South German (Catholic) mass. Introduction ; Some representative masses -- Requiem masses. Schütz ; Austria -- Some smaller forms. Settings of the Magnificat ; Settings of other texts -- Oratorios. The earliest German oratorios ; Dramatic dialogues ; Later German oratorios -- Passion music. Types of passion ; Motet passions and dramatic passions ; Oratorio passions in the seventeenth century ; Passion oratorios: the librettos ; Oratorio passions in the eighteenth century ; The passions of J. S. Bach ; Passion oratorios -- Motets. Introduction ; The traditional motet: Schütz ; The motets of Hammerschmidt, Selle, and others ; Motets by early members of the Bach family ; Chorale settings in motet form ; Later motets ; The motets of J. S. Bach -- Sacred concertatos, I: Chorale concertatos and variations. Introduction ; Scheidt and Kindermann ; Schütz ; Some other seventeenth-century composers ; Buxtehude -- Sacred concertatos, II: Free concertatos. Scheidt and Kindermann ; Schütz: Kleine Geistliche Konzerte ; Schütz: Symphoniae Sacrae ; The Schütz tradition ; Composers outside the Schütz tradition ; From concertato to cantata ; South Germany and Austria -- Cantatas. Introduction ; Zachow ; The cantatas of J. S. Bach: introduction ; Bach's chorale cantatas ; Bach's cantatas with intermittent chorales ; Bach's cantatas including chorale fantasias ; Bach's cantatas including motet-like choruses ; Bach's free cantatas ; Bach's solo cantatas ; Bach's secular cantatas ; Bach's cantatas: orchestration and textures ; Graupner, Telemann, and others. |
| Abstract |
Concerned with opera and church music, both fields which witnessed enormous activity and the composition of numerous masterpieces during this period, the baroque era of music. |
| 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 777-829) and index. |
| LCCN | 76370093 |
| ISBN | 0193163055 |
