Baroque Music Cl (Hill)

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.

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

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

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Baroque Music Cl (Hill)

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