The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century music
By: edited by Simon P. Keefe.
Contributors: Keefe, Simon P., 1968-
Series: The Cambridge history of music; Cambridge history of music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780521663199
Subjects: Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude. The musical map of Europe c. 1700 / Stephen Rose; title: Part I. Music for the church. Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires / Paul R. Laird ; Catholic sacred music in Austria / Jen-Yen Chen ; Catholic church music in France / Jean-Paul C. Montagnier ; Lutheran church music / Stephen Rose ; Protestant church music in England and America / Charles E. Brewer; title: Interlude. Listening, thinking and writing / David Schroeder; title: Part II. Music for the theatre. Italian opera in the eighteenth century / Margaret R. Butler ; Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau / Lois Rosow ; An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution : Parisian opera, 1752-1800 / Michael Fend ; German opera from Richard Keiser to Peter Winter / Claudia Maurer Zenck, translated by Anke Caton and Simon P. Keefe ; The lure of aria, procession and spectacle : opera in eighteenth-century London / Michael Burden ; Music theatre in Spain / Rainer Kleinertz ; Opera in Sweden / Greger Andersson; title: Interlude.  Performance in the eighteenth century / John Irving; title: Part III. Music for the salon and concert room. Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven / Rohan Stewart-Macdonald ; The serenata in the eighteenth century / Stefanie Tcharos ; Private music in public spheres : chamber cantata and song / Berta Joncus ; Handel and English oratorio / Eva Zöllner ; The overture-suite, concerto grosso and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century / Steven Zohn ; Concerto of the individual / Simon McVeigh ; Eighteenth-century symphonies : an unfinished dialogue / Richard Will ; The string quartet / Cliff Eisen; title: Postlude. Across the divide : currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790-1810 / Simon P. Keefe; title: Appendix 1. Chronology / David Black; title: Appendix II. Institutions in major European cities / David Black; title: Appendix III. Personalia / David Black.