Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989-02-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521352635

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107137896

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

Lully Studies

Lully Studies
Author: John Hajdu Heyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521621830

Presents the best research on the life and work of Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The Cambridge Companion to French Music

The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521877946

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

Music and the Language of Love

Music and the Language of Love
Author: Catherine Gordon-Seifert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253000858

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.

Discover Music of the Baroque Era

Discover Music of the Baroque Era
Author: Clive Unger-Hamilton
Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781843792345

Free website with music available, to access see page 4.

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ
Author: Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1999-03-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107494036

This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organ and its music. It examines in turn the instrument, the player and the repertoire. The early chapters tell of the instrument's history and construction, identify the scientific basis of its sounds and the development of its pitch and tuning, examine the history of the organ case, and consider the current trends and conflicts within the world of organ building. Central chapters investigate the practical art of learning and playing the organ, introduce the complex area of performance practice, and outline the relationship between organ playing and the liturgy of the church. The final section explores the vast repertoire of organ music, focusing on a selection of the most important traditions.

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781574670219

First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.

Five Lives in Music

Five Lives in Music
Author: Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252037014

A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess.

A History of Baroque Music

A History of Baroque Music
Author: George J. Buelow
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253343659

"A History of Baroque Music is a detailed treatment of the music of the Baroque era, with particular focus on the seventeenth century. The author's approach is a history of musical style with an emphasis on musical scores. The book is divided initially by time period into early and later Baroque (1600-1700 and 1700-1750 respectively), and secondarily by country and composer. An introductory chapter discusses stylistic continuity with the late Renaissance and examines the etymology of the term "Baroque." The concluding chapter on the composer Telemann addresses the stylistic shift that led to the end of the Baroque and the transition into the Classical period."--Jacket.