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Introduction. Baroque as a historical concept -- Part I. The Renaissance in transition: origins of new musical concepts. The historical and cultural context ; The musical context ; Humanism ; Musical experimentation and innovation at the end of the sixteenth century ; The cori spezzati and the concertato style: the Gabrielis ; The basso continuo ; Music and the theater: precursors of Baroque opera -- Baroque innovations in Italy to circa 1640. The camerata and monody ; The beginnings of opera ; Opera in Rome ; Secular vocal music ; Sacred music ; Keyboard music -- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). The madrigals ; The operas ; The sacred works -- The Baroque in Italy from circa 1640 to circa 1700. Opera in Venice ; The oratorio ; The cantata ; Instrumental music ; Chamber music ; Keyboard music -- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). Corelli's chamber sonatas ; Vocal chamber music of Alessandro Scarlatti -- The Baroque in France. The ballet de cour ; Air de cour ; Italian opera and the French court ; Sacred music ; The Baroque in France during the reign of Louis XIV ; Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) ; Music for the chapelle royale ; Michel-Richard Delalande ; Marc-Antoine Charpentier ; Sacred works by Charpentier's contemporaries and later composers ; Secular music after Lully until the end of the regency ; Baroque instrumental music in France ; Francois Couperin, le grand (1668-1733) -- Sacred music in northern and southern Europe and Austria in the seventeenth century. Luther and the protestant chorale ; North German and Dutch sacred vocal music in the seventeenth century ; Michael Praetorius ; Sweelinck and sacred vocal music in the Netherlands ; Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt ; Other German composers of sacred vocal music ; Dietrich Buxtehude(c. 1637-1707) ; Sacred vocal music in southern Germany and Austria ; Keyboard music -- Secular music in northern and southern Europe in the seventeenth century. The establishment of opera ; The development of the German lied ; Keyboard music in the first half of the seventeenth century ; Keyboard music in the second half of the seventeenth century -- Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) -- English music during the Stuart reign, the commonwealth, and the restoration. Sacred music before 1644 ; Sacred music after the restoration ; Secular vocal music ; Instrumental music ; Consort music ; Keyboard music ; Solo music for lute and other tablature instruments ; The English court masque and early opera -- Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Instrumental music ; Sacred music : the church anthems ; Odes and welcome songs ; Music for the theater -- Spain, Portugal, and Latin America / Rui Vieira Nery. The Iberian peninsula: the seventeenth century ; Spain and Portugal: the first half of the eighteenth century ; Latin America ; Music in the Amerindian archives -- Baroque music in eastern Europe. Music in Croatia / Ennio Stipcevic (Zagreb) ; Music in Slovenia / Metoda Kokole, ed. Zdravko Blazekovic (Ljubljana) ; Music in Russia (Ukraine) / Claudia Jensen (Kirkland, Washington) -- Part II. The Baroque in transition. Music in Italy. Opera and the comic intermezzo ; Cantata and oratorio ; Chamber music ; The concerto ; Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) -- Opera at Hamburg, Dresden, and Vienna. Opera developments before 1750 -- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). From Italy to London ; The operas ; The English church and secular music ; The instrumental music ; The oratorios ; Handel's borrowing practices -- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The five stations of Bach's career ; The organ music ; The harpsichord music ; Chamber music ; Orchestral music and the concertos ; Vocal works -- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). Telemann and the end of the Baroque. |
