ISBN: 0028722752

Baroque music, not long ago considered the province of the specialist, now occupies a central place in the interests of any music-lover. Not just Bach and Handel, but Vivaldi and Montever… Mehr…

Baroque music, not long ago considered the province of the specialist, now occupies a central place in the interests of any music-lover. Not just Bach and Handel, but Vivaldi and Monteverdi, Couperin and Rameau, Purcell and Schutz are familiar and loved figures. There is place now for a survey that offers fresh perspectives on these men and the times in which they lived. That is what the Companion to Baroque Music is designed to offer, to all those who are attracted by the music of that crucial century and a half, 1600-1750, which we call 'the Baroque era'. Julie Anne Sadie, herself scholar, performer, and critic, brings to this survey two novel features. First, it is underpinned by a keen awareness of music as sound, intended to be played, heard, and relished by the listener-as witness the group of articles contributed by well-known specialists, such as Nigel Rogers and David Fuller, on the central issues of performance. Secondly it is concerned not only with what the music is like but why it is as it is: and the series of essays, again by specialists, such as Michael Talbot (on Italy) and Peter Holman (on England) which places each region's music in its social and cultural contexts helps to explain its character. The lexicographical part of the book, in which the life of every significant musician of the era is charted and his or her work outlined, is subdivided geographically so as to convey with particular sharpness the special character of music-making in each part of arts music and photography,classical,home and garden,history and criticism,music,musical genres Music, Schirmer Books<

ISBN: 0028722752

[SR: 1422054], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780028722757], Schirmer Books, Schirmer Books, Book, [PU: Schirmer Books], Schirmer Books, 267294, Music, 276873, Encyclopaedias, 267324, Styles, 267378, … Mehr…

[SR: 1422054], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780028722757], Schirmer Books, Schirmer Books, Book, [PU: Schirmer Books], Schirmer Books, 267294, Music, 276873, Encyclopaedias, 267324, Styles, 267378, Scores, Songbooks & Lyrics, 516732, Composers & Musicians, 267297, Business, 512302, Digital Music, 512234, Guides to Music, 267301, History of Music, 267302, Instruments, 512272, Learning to Play, Write & Record Music, 267372, Musical Theory & Composition, 267320, Reference, 73, Music, Stage & Screen, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 9780028722757

Hardcover book. 549 pages. Published by Schirmer G Books Media > Book, [PU: Collier Books; Collier Macmillan]

1991, ISBN: 9780028722757

Hardcover book. 549 pages. Published by Cengage Gale (1991) Media >, [PU: Collier Books; Collier Macmillan]