Eighteenth-Century Music

Name: Eighteenth-Century Music
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ISBN: 9780521663199

ISBN-10: 0521663199

ISBN-13: 9780521663199

Edition: 2009

Authors: Simon P. Keefe

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Book details

List price: $273.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 816
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 3.102
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Editor's preface


Prelude



The musical map of Europe c. 1700




Music for the Church



Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires




Catholic sacred music in Austria




Catholic church music in France




Lutheran church music




Protestant church music in England and America



Interlude



Listening, thinking and writing




Music for The Theatre



Italian opera in the eighteenth century




Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau




An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution Parisian opera, 1752-1800




German opera from Reinhard Keiser to Peter Winter




The lure of aria, procession and spectacle: opera in eighteenth-century London




Music theatre in Spain




Opera in Sweden



Interlude



Performance in the eighteenth century




Music for the Salon and Concert Room



Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven




The serenata in the eighteenth century




Private music in public spheres: chamber cantata and song




Handel and English oratorio




The overture-suite, concerto grosso, ripieno concerto and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century




Concerto of the individual




Eighteenth-century symphonies: an unfinished dialogue




The string quartet



Postlude



Across the divide: currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790-1810




Chronology




Institutions in major European cities




Personalia



Index