Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750) books

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Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740

Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740...

Author: Jason Stoessel
ISBN: 9781138265783
Format: Paperback
$110.00

A collection of chapters invited from some of the leading music researchers that consider the meanings and roles...  Read More >>

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

Author: Michael Fleming ,  John Bryan
ISBN: 9781472468543
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A New Theory of Tonality

Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process:...

Author: Henry Burnett ,  Roy Nitzberg
ISBN: 9781138264779
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process. This book states that the...  Read More >>

Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The Villancico and Related Genres

Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The...

Author: Álvaro Torrente ,  Tess Knighton
ISBN: 9781138265349
Format: Paperback
$116.00

From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role...  Read More >>

Nicholas Lanier: Master of the King’s Musick

Nicholas Lanier: Master of the King’s Musick

Author: Michael I. Wilson
ISBN: 9781138268043
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles...  Read More >>

Adrian Willaert and the Theory of Interval Affect: The Musica nova Madrigals and the Novel Theories of Zarlino and Vicentino

Adrian Willaert and the Theory of Interval Affect: The...

Author: Timothy R. McKinney
ISBN: 9781138265806
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Using the influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert's (1490-1562) music, this book reconstructs his innovative...  Read More >>

Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian Baroque

Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian...

Author: Harry White
ISBN: 9781138260498
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque

The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the...

Author: Paul Collins
ISBN: 9781138273191
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the...  Read More >>

Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary

Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth...

Author: David J. Smith ,  Rachelle Taylor
ISBN: 9781138269637
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting...  Read More >>

Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan

Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century...

Author: Christine Suzanne Getz
ISBN: 9781138262829
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan via its life within the city's most influential social institutions...  Read More >>

Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance

Warrior, Courtier, Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio...

Author: Richard Wistreich
ISBN: 9781138263000
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe: Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges

Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early...

Author: Gesa zur Nieden ,  Berthold Over
ISBN: 9783837635041
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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The Man And The Artist

The Man And The Artist

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ,  Friedrich Kerst
ISBN: 9780486213163
Format: Book
$20.99

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A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation

A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation...

Author: Gregory Johnston (Professor, Professor, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780190628475
Format: Paperback
$111.95

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In...  Read More >>

Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance

Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance...

Author: Ruth Tatlow
ISBN: 9781107459694
Format: Paperback
$80.19

In the eighteenth century the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of the unity (1:1) were philosophically,...  Read More >>

The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day: Press the note to hear Vivaldi's music

The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day: Press...

Author: Jessica Courtney-Tickle
ISBN: 9781847808776
Format: Hardback
$29.99

Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day, following a little girl called Isabelle...  Read More >>

Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society

Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society

Author: Stefano Dall'Aglio (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Brian Richardson (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781472485311
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Bach and Tuning

Bach and Tuning

Author: Elliot Antokoletz ,  Johnny Reinhard
ISBN: 9783631672051
Format: Paperback
$160.43

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The Pilgrim Journey: A History of Pilgrimage in the Western World

The Pilgrim Journey: A History of Pilgrimage in the...

Author: James Harpur
ISBN: 9780745968964
Format: Paperback
$28.44

The Pilgrim Journey tells the story of pilgrimage in the Western world over the course of two millennia.  Read More >>

Rameau

Rameau

Author: Simon Trowbridge
ISBN: 9780955983078
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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

A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler

A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth...

Author: Mark Ellis
ISBN: 9781138250932
Format: Paperback
$114.00

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents...  Read More >>

Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750

Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig,...

Author: Tanya Kevorkian
ISBN: 9781138269606
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture...  Read More >>

Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production

Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript,...

Author: Ellen Rosand
ISBN: 9781138270664
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Francesco Cavalli is credited with inventing the opera genre as we know it. Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage...  Read More >>

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