Music of the Baroque

Contents ; 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 ; 3 Transitions Around 1600 ; Some General Developments ; The Basso Continuo ; Instruments ; Monody ; 4 Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Later Works ; Venetian Opera ; 5 Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century ; Barbara Strozzi ; Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata ; The Dissemination of Baroque Style ; 6 Lully and French Musical Drama ; The French Style ; Lully's Armide ; 7 Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music ; Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli ; Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schutz ; Seventeenth-Century Oratorio ; Lalande and the Grand Motet ; 8 Late Baroque Opera ; Handel ; Rameau ; 9 Late Baroque Sacred Music ; J. S. Bach ; Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio ; 10 Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite ; The Lute and Its Repertory ; Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy ; Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany ; 11 Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pieces ; Later Baroque Keyboard Music ; J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments ; Eigeenth-Century Keyboard Music in France ; Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers ; 12 Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata ; The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque ; Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble ; The Baroque Sonata ; 13 Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto ; The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia ; The Baroque Concerto ; 14 A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style ; The Galant Style ; Bibliography ; Index