Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

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The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

Author: Graham Sadler ,  Shirley Thompson
ISBN: 9781472479266
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together...  Read More >>

Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and the prince de Vaudémont

Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700:...

Author: Don Fader (Person)
ISBN: 9781783276288
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through an investigation of exchanges and collaborations...  Read More >>

Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and the Accademia degli Invaghiti

Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and...

Author: Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee, USA)
ISBN: 9780367465964
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

Collected Piano Works: Volume 1

Collected Piano Works: Volume 1

Author: Gary Lloyd Noland
ISBN: 9781732302389
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This compilation of music by Gary Lloyd Noland (1957-) represents a sampling of his works for piano spanning the...  Read More >>

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Author: Laura Tunbridge
ISBN: 9780241987445
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal...  Read More >>

Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding...

Author: Peter Bennett (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781108830638
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book considers the role that sacred music played in legitimating Louis XIII's power, and examines how the Old...  Read More >>

Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music

Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores,...

Author: Julia Dokter ,  Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781648250187
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Guides modern performers and scholars through the intricacies of German Baroque metric theory, via analyses of treatises...  Read More >>

Genealogies of Music and Memory: Gluck in the 19th-Century Parisian Imagination

Genealogies of Music and Memory: Gluck in the 19th-Century...

Author: Mark Everist (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780197546000
Format: Hardback
$238.00

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the...  Read More >>

Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology

Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology

Author: Robin A. Leaver ,  Daniel Zager
ISBN: 9780367242718
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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J. S. Bach's Material and Spiritual Treasures: A Theological Perspective

J. S. Bach's Material and Spiritual Treasures: A Theological...

Author: Noelle M. Heber
ISBN: 9781783275717
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An innovative study of the ways in which theological themes related to earthly and heavenly 'treasures' and Bach's...  Read More >>

Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema: Performance Practice and Musical Style

Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema: Performance Practice...

Author: Donald Greig (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781108827867
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element gives a wide perspective of pre-existing music in narrative cinema, placing baroque music in the context...  Read More >>

Issac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi, 1673: On the Music of Poetry and Power of Rhythm

Issac Vossius's De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi,...

Author: Peter Martens
ISBN: 9780754669999
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Dr Peter Martens provides the very first edited English translation of, and commentary on, De Poematum, the late...  Read More >>

J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works

J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ...

Author: Russell Stinson (Josephine Emily Brown Professor and College Organist, Josephine Emily Brown Professor and College Organist, Lyon College)
ISBN: 9780190674410
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ...  Read More >>

Anthology to accompany GATEWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC

Anthology to accompany GATEWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC...

Author: Samuel N. Dorf ,  Heather MacLachlan (University of Dayton, USA)
ISBN: 9780367485382
Format: Paperback
$131.00

"This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ""texts."" These broadly-defined...  Read More >>

Anthology to accompany GATEWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC

Anthology to accompany GATEWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC...

Author: Samuel N. Dorf ,  Heather MacLachlan (University of Dayton, USA)
ISBN: 9780367485399
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ""texts."" These broadly-defined...  Read More >>

English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706

English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706

Author: Andrew R. Walkling
ISBN: 9780367731076
Format: Paperback
$83.99

"English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known...  Read More >>

Rameau

Rameau

Author: Simon Trowbridge
ISBN: 9781999730598
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A biography of the French 18th-century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Paperback edition.  Read More >>

The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel

The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy,...

Author: Harry White (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University College of Dublin School of Music)
ISBN: 9780190903879
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Musical Discourse of Servitude presents a new theory of how the late baroque musical imagination developed by...  Read More >>

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian...

Author: Robin Leaver
ISBN: 9780367581435
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research...  Read More >>

John Wallis: Writings on Music

John Wallis: Writings on Music

Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh ,  David Cram
ISBN: 9780367669287
Format: Paperback
$83.99

John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also...  Read More >>

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