The Orchestra at San Petronio in the Baroque Era
Author: Eugene Enrico
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
Author: Joseph P. Swain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-05-08
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1538151626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - "Bravo! An invaluable source for scholars and concertgoers.” - Library Journal In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The beginning of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera. The ending is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 and the completion of George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, the following year. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.
The Birth of the Orchestra
Author: John Spitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-04-29
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 0198164343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. Ensembles of bowed stringed instruments, several players per part plus continuo and wind instruments, were organized in France in the mid-17th century and then in Rome at the end of the century. The prestige of these ensembles and of the music and performing styles of their leaders, Jean-Baptiste Lully and ArcangeloCorelli, caused them to be imitated elsewhere, until by the late 18th century, the orchestra had become a pan-European phenomenon.Spitzer and Zaslaw review previous accounts of these developments, then proceed to a thoroughgoing documentation and discussion of orchestral organization, instrumentation, and social roles in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the American colonies. They also examine the emergence of orchestra musicians, idiomatic music for orchestras, orchestral performance practices, and the awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.
The Orchestra
Author: Joan Peyser
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9781423410263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe symphonic orchestra is intriguingly considered in essays by 23 leading music authors and thinkers. Topics include historical beginnings, the role of the conductor, the orchestral audience, the nature of the repertoire, and how recordings have affected the modern orchestra. With a new editor's introduction for this 2006 edition and a glossary of terms.
The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815
Author: Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005-08-05
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780199719914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.
The Scoring of Baroque Concertos
Author: C. R. F. Maunder
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781843830719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as chamber music. The author surveys the evidence, from surviving printed and manuscript performance material, from concerts throughout Europe between 1685 and 1750 (the heyday of the concerto), demonstrating that concertos were nearly always played one-to-a-part at that time. He makes a particularly close study of the scoring of the bass line, discussing the question of what instruments were most appropriate and what was used when. The late Dr RICHARD MAUNDER was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Stewart Carter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-03-21
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0253005280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.
The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra
Author: Colin James Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-24
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521001328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.
The Cappella Musicale of San Petronio in Bologna Under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674-95)
Author: Marc Vanscheeuwijck
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Renaissance to Baroque
Author: Jonathan Wainwright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1351566261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change in the seventeenth century, when the consorts or families of instruments developed during the Renaissance were replaced by the new models of the Baroque period. Yet the process is still poorly understood, in part because each instrument has traditionally been considered in isolation, and changes in design have rarely been related to changes in the way instruments were used, or what they played. The essays in this book are by distinguished international authors that include specialists in particular instruments together with those interested in such topics as the early history of the orchestra, iconography, pitch and continuo practice. The book will appeal to instrument makers and academics who have an interest in achieving a better understanding of the process of change in the seventeenth century, but the book also raises questions that any historically aware performer ought to be asking about the performance of Baroque music. What sorts of instruments should be used? At what pitch? In which temperament? In what numbers and/or combinations? For this reason, the book will be invaluable to performers, academics, instrument makers and anyone interested in the fascinating period of change from the 'Renaissance' to the 'Baroque'.
