The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century MusicTim Carter, John Butt Cambridge University Press, 2005 M12 22 - 591 pages The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music seeks to provide the most up-to-date knowledge on seventeenth-century music together with a vital questioning of the way in which such a history can be told or put together for our present purposes. Written by a distringuished team of experts in the field, the chapters not only address traditional areas of knowledge such as opera and church music, but also look at the way this extremely diverse and dynamic musical world has been categorised in the past and how its products are viewed from various cultural points of view. While this history does not depart entirely from the traditional study of musical works and their composers, there is a strong emphasis on the institutions, cultures and politics of the age, together with an interrogation of the ways in which music related to contemporary arts, sciences and beliefs. -- Library of Congress. |
Contents
Renaissance Mannerism Baroque | 1 |
The seventeenthcentury musical work | 27 |
Music in the marketplace | 55 |
Music in new worlds | 88 |
a casestudy in Portuguese expansion and Jesuit patronage | 98 |
vii | 100 |
Music and the arts | 111 |
Music and the sciences | 132 |
sacred songs | 324 |
secular song | 378 |
the solo instrumentalist | 426 |
canzona sonata and concerto | 479 |
The sonata da camera and the proper exercises of nobles | 501 |
Chronology | 533 |
Places and institutions | 547 |
Personalia | 556 |
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