The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century music
Title:
The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century music
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Tim Carter and John Butt.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 591 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780521792738
9781107681057
Series:
Abstract:
While this history does not depart entirely from the traditional study of musical works and their composers, there is a strong emphasis on the institutions, cultures & politics of the age, together with an interrogation of the ways in which music related to contemporary arts, sciences & beliefs.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Renaissance, mannerism, Baroque / Tim Carter -- The seventeenth-century musical "work" / John Butt -- Music in the market-place / Stephen Rose -- Music in new worlds / Victor Anand Coelho -- Music and the arts / Barbara Russano Hanning -- Music and the sciences / Penelope Gouk -- The search for musical meaning / Tim Carter -- Power and display : music in court theatre / Lois Rosow -- Mask and illusion : Italian opera after 1637 / Tim Carter -- The church triumphant : music in the liturgy / Noel O'Regan -- Devotion, piety and commemoration : sacred songs and oratorios / Robert L. Kendrick -- Image and eloquence : secular song / Margaret Murata -- Fantasy and craft : the solo instrumentalist / Alexander Silbiger -- Form and gesture : canzona, sonata and concerto / Gregory Barnett -- Appendix I. Chronology / Stephen Rose -- Appendix II. Places and institutions / Stephen Rose -- Appendix III. Personalia / Stephen Rose.
Chronological Term:
1600-1699