Music in the Seventeenth Century

Name: Music in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521269155

ISBN-10: 0521269156

ISBN-13: 9780521269155

Edition: 1987

Authors: Lorenzo Bianconi, David Bryant

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The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi considers the radical developments of the century as long-lived musical traditions died out and others were created in response to new social functions. This period saw, for example, the flowering of the polyphonic madrigal and its subsequent decline in favour of a new concertato style, the rise of the basso continuo and the growth of purely instrumental composition. Most importantly it saw the rapid rise and persistent growth of a new genre of immeasurable significance: opera. In examining the plurality of coexistent musical styles Lorenzo Bianconi also discusses the…

Book details

List price: $55.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/26/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.54" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Italian versification: a note




The Early Decades



The seventeenth-century madrigal



Giovan Battista Marino and the poesia per musica



Music for solo voice



Claudio Monteverdi before 1620



The 'crisis' of the seventeenth century



'Concerto'



Monteverdi after 1620



The classification of styles



Scientific thought and musical theory



Theory and practice



Musical publicity



Music publishing and music collecting



Social condition of the musician



Instrumental and dance music



Sacred Vocal Music



Music in the Catholic liturgy



Catholic devotional music



The music of the lutheran Church: Heinrich Schntz



Sacred music as music of the State: France and England



Opera



The historiography of opera



Opera before 1637



The Venetian theatres



The diffusion of opera in Italy



Formal and dramatic convention; the lament



Opera in German-speaking lands: Vienna and Hamburg



The tragTdie lyrique




Theatrical music in England and Spain