Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "Baroque" as an historical concept
Part I: The Baroque in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 1: The Renaissance in Transition-Origins of New Musical
concepts
Chapter 2: Baroque Innovations in Italy to circa 1640
Chapter 3: Claudio Monteverdi (1567=1643)
Chapter 4: The Baroque in Italy from c1640 to c1700
Chapter 5: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713 and Alessandro Scarlatti
(1660-1725)
George J. Buelow
Chapter 6: The Baroque in France
Chapter 7: Sacred Music in Northern and Southern Europe and Austria
in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 8: Secular Music in Northern and Southern Europe and
Austria in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 9: Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Chapter 10: English Music during the Stuart Reign, the Commonwealth
and the Restoration
Chapter 11: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Chapter 12: Music in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
By Rui Vieira Nery
Chapter 13: Music in Eastern Europe
by Ennio Stipcevic, Metoda Kokole, and Claudia Jensen
Part II: The Baroque in Transition
Chapter 14: Music in Italy
Chapter 15: Opera at Hamburg, Dresden, and Vienna
Chapter 16: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Chapter 17: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chapter 18: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
A comprehensive survey of Baroque music, thoroughly illustrated with almost 200 musical examples.
George J. Buelow, Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Indiana University, is former President of the American Bach Society. His research and publications, including several articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, focus on the music of the Baroque and the history of opera.
Given the availability of numerous sophisticated surveys on Baroque
music history, this reviewer was astonished that this tome exceeded
expectations regarding scope and focus. In an effort to offer a
discussion that goes beyond the standard canon of thought, Buelow
(emer., Indiana Univ.) explores the works of Iberian, Eastern
European, Latin American, and indeed even Caribbean composers. The
book is replete with extensive score excerpts and analysis, and the
chapters are subdivided into sections treating genre, composer, and
technical development—an arrangement that makes this sizeable
volume painless to navigate. Some of the most complex issues
confronting the author are the paradigm shifts away from the knotty
theoretical and philosophical concerns of the Renaissance
establishment. Buelow excels in handling this, offering a chapter
about this transition that even the uninitiated will be able to
comprehend. His portrayal of the cross—cultural ramifications
resulting from the contemporary political condition brings with it
needed context for tracing musical developments as they occur
across the Continent. Though the seemingly obligatory Bach and
Handel chapters are somewhat overextended, this is a solid addition
to the literature. Summing Up: Essential. Upper—division
undergraduates through faculty and professionals. —J. Rubin,
University of Minnesot
*2005jun CHOICE*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |