Music in the Baroque
            
                Western Music in Context A Norton History
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780393929171
Description: Wendy Heller's Music in the Baroque traces the production and consumption of music in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Going beyond a history of styles, the text explores patronage, education, religious and civic ritual, theater, and visual culture. Heller focuses not only on the nature of music in the Baroque period, but also on the very different ways in which men and women experienced music in their daily lives. Treating music as an expression of political and national identity, she examines it in the context of the era's art and literature, political and religious conflicts, and contentious issues of class and gender [Publisher description]