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Subject(s)

• Music—18th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Keefe, Simon P., 1968- [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge history of music [More in this series]
• The Cambridge history of music

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Prelude. The musical map of Europe c. 1700 / Stephen Rose
• Part I. Music for the church. Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires / Paul R. Laird ; Catholic sacred music in Austria / Jen-Yen Chen ; Catholic church music in France / Jean-Paul C. Montagnier ; Lutheran church music / Stephen Rose ; Protestant church music in England and America / Charles E. Brewer
• Interlude. Listening, thinking and writing / David Schroeder
• Part II. Music for the theatre. Italian opera in the eighteenth century / Margaret R. Butler ; Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau / Lois Rosow ; An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution : Parisian opera, 1752-1800 / Michael Fend ; German opera from Richard Keiser to Peter Winter / Claudia Maurer Zenck, translated by Anke Caton and Simon P. Keefe ; The lure of aria, procession and spectacle : opera in eighteenth-century London / Michael Burden ; Music theatre in Spain / Rainer Kleinertz ; Opera in Sweden / Greger Andersson
• Interlude. Performance in the eighteenth century / John Irving
• Part III. Music for the salon and concert room. Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven / Rohan Stewart-Macdonald ; The serenata in the eighteenth century / Stefanie Tcharos ; Private music in public spheres : chamber cantata and song / Berta Joncus ; Handel and English oratorio / Eva Zöllner ; The overture-suite, concerto grosso and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century / Steven Zohn ; Concerto of the individual / Simon McVeigh ; Eighteenth-century symphonies : an unfinished dialogue / Richard Will ; The string quartet / Cliff Eisen
• Postlude. Across the divide : currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790-1810 / Simon P. Keefe
• Appendix 1. Chronology / David Black
• Appendix II. Institutions in major European cities / David Black
• Appendix III. Personalia / David Black.

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ISBN

• 9780521663199 (hbk.)
• 0521663199 (hbk.)

OCLC

320802718

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