Descript |
xx, 271, 32 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.. |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
Baroque music in early modern Europe -- Ancients and moderns -- Theatrical baroque -- The art and craft of instrumental music in the early seventeenth century -- Music in civic and religious ritual -- Opera in Venice and beyond -- Power and pleasure at the court of Louis XIV -- Music in seventeenth-century England -- Music and education -- Academies, salons, and music societies -- Rome in the age of the arcadian academy -- Parisians and their music in the eighteenth century -- Music in city, court, and church in the Holy Roman Empire -- The London of Handel and Hogarth -- Postlude and prelude. |
ISBN |
9780393929171 |
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0393929175 |
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