Companion To Baroque Music - Brossura

Sadie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198167040 ISBN 13: 9780198167044

Casa editrice: New Publisher, 1998

Riassunto

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 Schütz 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 Europe―and a system of cross-references defines the ebb and flow of influences as composers travelled from city to city or court to court, disseminating their tastes, their styles, their ideas. A detailed chronology enables the reader to take in at a glance the sequence of musical events across the entire period.

The Companion to Baroque Music, which contains a foreword by Christopher Hogwood, offers both reliable reference material and lively, enlightening reading to all those―amateur and professional, from the skilled practical musician to the person who has never played anything more demanding than a piece of stereo equipment―who love the music of the era that culminated in the great masterworks of Bach and Handel.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Julie Anne Sadie is a well-known scholar, performer, and critic, and Curator of the Handel House in London.

Contenuti:

• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Foreword by Christopher Hogwood
• A Short Explication
• Acknowledgments
• I Places and People
• ITALY
• Michael Talbot: An Italian Overview
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• FRANCE
• Julie Anne Sadie: Paris and its Environs
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• NORTHERN EUROPE
• Geoffrey Webber: German Courts and Cities
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• CENTRAL EUROPE
• Susan Wollenberg: The Austro-German Courts
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• THE BRITISH ISLES
• Peter Holman: Private and Public Music
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• THE LOW COUNTRIES
• Albert Dunning: The Netherlanders
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND ITS NEW WORLD COLONIES
• Louise K. Stein: The Spanish and Portuguese Heritage
• Julie Anne Sadie: Biographical Dictionary
• II Baroque Forces and Forms
• Nigel Rogers: Voices
• Jeremy Montagu: Instruments
• Sandra Mangsen: Forms and Genres
• III Performing Practice Issues
• Howard Schott: National Styles
• David Fuller: Ornamentation
• Stanley Sadie: The Idea of Authenticity
• IV Chronology
• Select Bibliography of Recent Books in English
• Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Publisher
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198167040
• ISBN 13: 9780198167044
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 568