A History of Baroque Music

"A History of Baroque Music" is an exhaustive study of the music of the Baroque period, with particular focus on the 17th century. Individual chapters consider the work of significant composers, including Monteverdi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell, Handel, Bach, and Telemann, as well as specific countries and regions. Two contributed chapters examine composers and genres from Russia, the Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, and Latin America. The book also includes a wealth and variety of musical examples from all genres and instrumental combinations.

Contributors are Claudia Jensen, Metoda Kokole, Rui Vieira Nery, and Ennio Stipcevic.

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Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: "Baroque" as an historical concept

Part I: The Baroque in the Seventeenth Century
1: The Renaissance in Transition-Origins of New Musical concepts
2: Baroque Innovations in Italy to circa 1640
3: Claudio Monteverdi (1567=1643)
4: The Baroque in Italy from c1640 to c1700
5: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713 and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
6: The Baroque in France
7: Sacred Music in Northern and Southern Europe and Austria in the Seventeenth Century
8: Secular Music in Northern and Southern Europe and Austria in the Seventeenth Century
9: Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
10: English Music during the Stuart Reign, the Commonwealth and the Restoration
11: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
12: Music in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
13: Music in Eastern Europe

Part II: The Baroque in Transition
14: Music in Italy
15: Opera at Hamburg, Dresden, and Vienna
16: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
17: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
18: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors