Baroque Music Cl (Hill)

by Hill,John Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393978001
• ISBN10: 0393978001
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This essential addition to the Norton Introduction to Music History series provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of the Baroque, incorporating discussions of culture, religion, and political history with in-depth analysis of musical compositions. The narrative is complemented by a wide range of music in both the text and the accompanying Anthology of Baroque Music ; the works included reflect the innovations and great stylistic diversity of music during this dynamic period.

Author Biography

John Walter Hill is a professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations	xi
Photo Credits	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction: Monarchy, Religion, and the Rhetoric of the Arts	1	(21)
Monarchy and Nobility	4	(7)
Religion	11	(4)
The Rhetoric of the Arts	15	(7)
The Birth of Opera, Monody, and the Concerted Madrigal	22	(33)
Court Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in Florence	22	(4)
The First Operas	26	(5)
Le nuove musiche	31	(7)
Monody and the Serious Canzonetta in Naples, Rome, and Elsewhere	38	(6)
Seconda pratica and the Concerted Madrigal	44	(4)
Court Opera in Mantua, Florence, and Rome	48	(7)
New Genres of Instrumental Music	55	(31)
Frescobaldi and Style Change in Lute and Harpsichord Music	55	(8)
Chordal Composition	63	(1)
Modal Composition	64	(7)
Church Organ Music in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy	71	(4)
The Violin and Italian Instrumental Ensemble Music	75	(11)
Church Music in Italy, 1600--1650	86	(23)
Churches and Other Religious Institutions	86	(5)
Persistence of Traditions	91	(5)
The Small-Scale Sacred Concerto	96	(5)
Sacred Dialogues and Oratorios	101	(3)
Large-Scale Concerted Church Music	104	(5)
Stage, Instrumental, and Church Music in France to 1650	109	(30)
The Balet comique de la Royne	109	(3)
Types of Dance in Court Ballets, Other Spectacles, and Social Contexts	112	(7)
The air de cour	119	(4)
Lute Music	123	(4)
Harpsichord Music	127	(3)
Instrumental Ensemble Music	130	(2)
Organs and Organ Music	132	(2)
Vocal Music for Church	134	(5)
Music in the Empire through the Thirty Years' War	139	(25)
The Italian Influx to the Empire and Eastern Europe	139	(4)
The Earliest Lutheran Composers to Assimilate New Italian Styles after 1600	143	(6)
Heinrich Schutz	149	(4)
Calvinist Music	153	(1)
Lutheran Organ Music	154	(2)
Froberger	156	(2)
Ensemble Music in the Empire	158	(1)
Stadpfeifern	159	(1)
The German Continuo Song	160	(4)
Music in England under the First Stuart Kings and Commonwealth	164	(23)
England in the European Context	164	(1)
Instrumental Ensemble Music in England	164	(6)
Lute and Harpsichord Music	170	(3)
Church Music under the Stuart Kings	173	(1)
Madrigals, Ayres, and Songs	174	(3)
The Masque at the Courts of the First Stuart Kings	177	(6)
Music, the English Civil War, and Commonwealth	183	(4)
The Diffusion of New Vocal Genres for Theater, Chamber, and Church in Italy, 1635--1680	187	(29)
The Spread of Opera from Rome	187	(2)
Venetian Theaters	189	(2)
Incogniti Operas	191	(4)
Venetian Opera Conventions	195	(3)
Venetian Arias	198	(1)
Florence, Naples, Genoa	199	(3)
The Spread of the Chamber Cantata	202	(3)
The Oratorio in Rome at Mid-Century	205	(3)
Changes in Liturgical Music in Italy	208	(8)
Music at the Court of Louis XIV to the Death of Lully	216	(41)
Political, Economic, and Cultural Centralization in France	216	(2)
Musique de la Grande Ecurie	218	(2)
Musique de la Chambre	220	(5)
The Chapelle Royale	225	(4)
Italian Opera at the French Royal Court	229	(1)
Spectacle as Propaganda at the Court of Louis XIV	230	(1)
The System of Royal Academies	231	(1)
The Beginnings of French Opera	232	(1)
Ballets de cour and Comedies-ballets	233	(6)
Tragedie en Musique	239	(2)
Lully's Alceste	241	(7)
Lully's Harmony	248	(4)
Music in the City of Paris in the Age of Louis XIV	252	(5)
Music in Spain, Portugal, and their Colonies	257	(30)
The Spanish Empire and Its Church	257	(2)
Latin Liturgical Music	259	(3)
The Villancico and Other Vernacular Church Music	262	(6)
Autos sacramentales	268	(1)
Vocal Chamber Music	269	(4)
Stage Music	273	(4)
The Zarzuela	277	(1)
Keyboard Music	278	(3)
Harp and Guitar	281	(6)
Music in the Empire during the Later Seventeenth Century	287	(35)
The New Lutheran Piety and the Religious Aria	287	(2)
Sacred Concertos for Solo Voice	289	(2)
Sacred Concertos for Several Voices	291	(2)
Chorale Concertos	293	(4)
Religious Vocal Music at the Catholic German Courts	297	(4)
Keyboard Music	301	(4)
Instrumental Ensemble Music	305	(7)
Seventeenth-Century Opera in the German Lands	312	(3)
German Music Theory	315	(3)
Summary	318	(4)
Sonata and Concerto in Late Seventeenth-Century Italy	322	(35)
The Italian Trio and Solo Sonata in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century	322	(6)
Arcangelo Corelli	328	(2)
The Normalized Harmonic Style	330	(13)
The Solo Sonata after Corelli	343	(1)
The Rise of the Concerto Grosso	344	(4)
The Bolognese Trumpet Sonata	348	(3)
The Solo Violin Concerto	351	(6)
England from the Restoration through the Augustan Age	357	(25)
Charles II and the Musical Institutions of His Court	357	(2)
Anthems and Services	359	(2)
Odes and Welcome Songs	361	(2)
Songs and Domestic Vocal Ensembles	363	(1)
Viols and Violins	364	(5)
Solo Key-board Music	369	(2)
Plays with Music---Dramatick Operas	371	(4)
All-Sung Operas	375	(7)
Italian Vocal Music, ca. 1680--1730	382	(41)
The Neoclassical Reform of Italian Opera, ca. 1680--1706	382	(5)
Opera seria, Part 1	387	(2)
The Doctrine of the Affections	389	(7)
Opera seria, Part 2	396	(10)
``A Perfect Spiritual Melodramma'': The Italian Oratorio, ca. 1680--1730	406	(4)
The Chamber Cantata	410	(4)
Latin Church Music	414	(9)
French Music from the War of the Grand Alliance to the End of the Regency	423	(31)
France Declines in the Theater of Europe	423	(2)
Italian Music: Rap-prochement and Resistance	425	(5)
The cantate francoise	430	(5)
Vocal Church Music	435	(3)
Organ Music	438	(2)
Pieces de clavecin	440	(6)
Sonatas and sonades	446	(3)
Orchestral Music	449	(1)
The Harmonic Theories of Jean-Philippe Rameau	450	(4)
German Traditions and Innovations, ca. 1690--1750	454	(41)
The New Lutheran Cantata	454	(6)
Bach's Cantatas	460	(7)
Protestant Oratorios and Passions	467	(2)
Handel's Oratorios	469	(4)
Bach's Passions and Oratorios	473	(8)
Bach's Keyboard Works	481	(6)
Instrumental Ensemble Music	487	(4)
The End of an Era---The Legacy of the Baroque	491	(4)
Appendix: Rhetorical Figures that Are Frequently Mirrored in Music	495	(3)
Index	498