Baroque music : music in Western Europe, 1580-1750 /
Hill, John Walter,1942-
New York ; London : W.W. Norton,
c2005.
Bibliographical notes follow each chapter; includes index.
Introduction: monarchy, religion, and the rhetoric of the arts -- The birth of opera, monody, and the concerted madrigal -- New genres of instrumental music -- Church music in Italy, 1600-1650 -- Stage, instrumental, and church music in France to 1650 -- Music in the Empire through the Thirty-Year's War -- Music in England under the first Stuart kings and Commonwealth -- The diffusion of new vocal genres for theater, chamber, and church in Italy, 1635-1680 -- Music at the court of Louis XIV to the death of Lully -- Music in Spain, Portugal, and their colonies -- Music in the Empire during the later seventeenth century -- Sonata and concerto in late seventeenth-century Italy -- England from the Restoration through the Augustan age -- Italian vocal music, ca.1680-1730 -- French music from the war of the grand alliance to the end of the Regency -- German traditions and innovations, ca. 1690-1750 -- Appendix, Rhetorical figures that are frequently mirrored in music.
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