Music in the baroque / Wendy Heller, Princeton University.
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 n...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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| Series: | Western music in context.
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Table of Contents:
- Baroque music in early modern Europe
- Ancients and moderns
- Theatrical baroque
- The art and craft of instrumental music in the early seventeenth century
- Music in civic and religious ritual
- 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
- 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.