Music of the Baroque

Abstract

Preface 1. INTRODUCTION Music History, 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas Historical Background: Western Europe 1600-1750 Music in European History 1600-1750 The Place of Music and Musicians in Society Performance Practices 2. A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PROLOGUE: MOTET AND MADRIGAL The Late-Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus The Madrigal: Gesualdo and Monteverdi 3. TRANSISTIONS AROUND 1600 Some General Developments Instruments Monody 4. MONTEVERDI AND EARLY BAROQUE MUSICAL DRAMA Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi's Orfeo The Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Venetian Opera 5. LULLY AND FRENCH MUSICAL DRAMA The French Style Lully's Armide 6. SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC OF THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Barbara Strozzi Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata English Vocal Music in the Later Seventeenth Century 7. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SACRED MUSIC Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schutz Seventeeth-Century Oratorio 8. LATE-BAROQUE OPERA Handel Rameau 9. LATE-BAROQUE SACRED MUSIC Johann Sebastian Bach Handel: Jephtha 10. BAROQUE KEYBOARD MUSIC I: TOCCATA AND SUITE Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Uses of Keyboard Music Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany 11. BAROQUE KEYBOARD MUSIC II: FUGUES, PIECES, AND SONATAS Later Baroque German Keyboard Music Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers 12. BAROQUE MUSIC FOR INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE: THE SONATA The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble The Baroque Sonata Biber Corelli 13. THE BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL CONCERTO Corelli and the Concernto Grosso The Solo Concerto J.S. Bach and the Concerto 14. A MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EPILOGUE: THE GALANT STYLE The Galant Style Telemann Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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