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1.
Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2003
Subjects:
Steffani, Agostino, 1654-1728
Composers--Italy--Biography
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...Manfred. ‘Allegory in Baroque Music’, Journal of the...Bukofzer, Manfred. Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach...Burkley, Francis. ‘Priest-Composers of the Baroque: A Sacred-Secular ConflictU...
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A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers | Composers Born before 1900 - Vol. 1
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Publisher:
Greenwood Press 2002
Subjects:
Piano Music--Bibliography
Music By Women Composers--Bio-Bibliography
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...Pleasant, tuneful examples of the late Baroque/early Classical period in the style...ANTHOLOGIES: At the Piano with Women Composers, ed. Hinson (Alfred, 1990U...Harpsichord Op. II. Eighteenth Century Women Composers for the Harpsichord or Piano, Vol...
3.
The World of Great Composers
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Publisher:
Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1962
Subjects:
Composers--Biography
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...contrapuntal--but homophonic in the Late Baroque sense, with much incidentaluse of counterpoint...two outervoices. Typical of the Late Baroque, also, is Vivaldi's constant useof...Vivaldidiffers from Torelli and all earlier composers not by virtue of anyinnovation in the...
4.
Conductors on Composers
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Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1993
Subjects:
Composers
Music--History And Criticism
Conductors (Music)--Quotations
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...themselves written studies of particular composers; Thomas Bee­cham's book about...fascinating obser­vations about many composers apart from Delius. A contemporaryconductor...question of the correct performance of Baroque and Classical musicis constantly discussed...
5.
Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2000
Subjects:
Composers--Germany--Biography
Music--Germany--20th Century--History And Criticism
National Socialism
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...progressive enough to act as thorns in the fleshof the purists among Baroque-music lovers, in Munich as well as in thecapital, and hence...who laid their own cultural-politicalclaim to Bach and the Baroque era.35By 30 January 1933, then, the grand day of National...
6.
Composers on Composers
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Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1990
Subjects:
Musicians As Authors
Composers
Music--History And Criticism
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Claudio Monteverdi(1567-1643)The great Italian Monteverdi stood midway between the Renaissance andthe Baroque eras, but his music was scarcely known in the twentieth centuryuntil the 1930s. COPLAND wrote in 1953: "The first of...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2000
Subjects:
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953
Composers--United States--Biography
Women Composers--United States--Biography
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...piece, which begin on each of the sevenpitches of the first set (Fig. 13-2). Just like Renaissance and early Baroque pas­sacaglias, this movement uses a single phrase through which to construct acontinuous variation form. As usual...
8.
Companion to Baroque Music
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1998
Subjects:
Music--17th Century--History And Criticism
Music--18th Century--History And Criticism
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...and someearlier German composers a toccata-like, freely...exercise, andfor English composers such as Henry Lawes...also evident in much Baroque musica more relaxed...two ripienoviolins. Baroque composers re-used their own...
9.
Poetry and Song in the German Baroque: A Study of the Continuo Lied
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1963
Subjects:
Music And Literature
Songs, German--History And Criticism
Music--Germany--17th Century--History And Criticism
Songs, German--Discography
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the hearts of baroque composers was that which builds an expressive...thinking of this controlling element in baroque music?The recurring harmonic structure...resultis something lying deep in the baroque, the expressive interplay ofsubjective...
10.
Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque
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Publisher:
Peter Lang 1993
Subjects:
Church Music--Lutheran Church
Church Music--Germany--17th Century
Church Music--Germany--18th Century
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162.John Rupert Martin, Baroque (London: Allen Lane...spirit of the time'--a Baroque 'Zeitgeist'--butrather...stage, see Peter Skrine, The Baroque (London: Methuen...168.Ibid., Avb. While composers used rhetorical devices in...
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