Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
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Contents
Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi
- Chapter 2 Fat Times and Lean
- Chapter 3 Courts Resplendent, Overthrown, Restored
- Sense And Sensuousness
- The Politics Of Patronage
- Drama As Court Ritual
- Atys, The King’s Opera
- Art And Politics: Some Caveats
- Jacobean England
- Masque And Consort
- Ayres And Suites: Harmonically Determined Form
- Distracted Times
- Restoration
- Purcell
- Dido And Aeneas And The Question Of “English Opera”
- The Making Of A Classic
- Chapter 4 Class and Classicism
- Chapter 5 The Italian Concerto Style and the Rise of Tonality-driven Form
- Chapter 6 Class of 1685 (I)
- Chapter 7 Class of 1685 (II)
- Chapter 8 The Comic Style
- Chapter 9 Enlightenment and Reform
- Chapter 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off
- Party Music Goes Public
- Concert Life Is Born
- An Army Of Generals
- The Bach Sons As “Symphonists”
- Haydn
- The Perfect Career
- The Esterházy Years
- Norms And Deviations: Creating Musical Meaning
- Sign Systems
- Anatomy Of A Joke
- The London Tours
- Addressing Throngs
- Variation And Development
- More Surprises
- The Culminating Work
- Chapter 11 The Composer’s Voice
- Chapter 12 The First Romantics
- Chapter 13 C-Minor Moods
- Art Credits
- Further Reading
