Music in the baroque / Wendy Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Wendy, 1955-

Series:

Western music in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--17th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--18th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xx, 271, 32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Summary:

Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six original volumes, strikingly illustrated, each written in an engaging style by an outstanding musicologist. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents. The series carries on Norton's tradition of excellence in music scholarship. Music in the Baroque traces the production and consumption of music in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. More than a history of composers, styles, and genres, the text explores such diverse topics as patronage, music education, performance, religious and civic ritual, music academies and salons, theater, and visual culture. Heller focuses not only on the nature of music in this rich period, but also its place in the context of art and literature, political and religious conflicts, and contentious issues of class and gender. Book jacket.

Contents:

Baroque music in early modern Europe

I. Musical expression and innovation

Ancients and moderns

Theatrical baroque

The art and craft of instrumental music in the early seventeenth century

Music in civic and religious ritual

II. Musical institutions

Opera in Venice and beyond

Power and pleasure at the court of Louis XIV

Music in seventeenth-century England

Music and education

Academies, salons, and music societies

III. Musical synthesis in the capitals of Europe

Rome in the age of the arcadian academy

Parisians and their music in the eighteenth century

Music in city, court, and church in the Holy Roman Empire

The London of Handel and Hogarth

Postlude and prelude.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393929171

0393929175

OCLC:

807025410