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Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences. It experienced the emergence of a new sort of music, increasingly secular and increasingly good listening, if you will, and also the start of opera. Some of the Baroque composers appear among the most popular of all time, such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. So yes, this is a book for researchers, but it is also a good book for anyone who enjoys this music. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music certainly fills a significant space in the whole sub-series on music, since it tells us much more not only about the music but also the age that generated it. This is done particularly well in an insightful introduction, with the flow of events traced by the chronology. The dictionary section fills in the missing details with over 400 entries on the most important composers and musicians, some of the musical works themselves, important places and institutions, and a smattering of technical terms. The bibliography directs us to further reading.

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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music

Joseph P. Swain

The Scarecrow Press Inc Lanham Toronto Plymouth UK 2013 Published by - photo 2

The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK

2013

Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706

www.rowman.com

10 Thornbury Road, Plymouth PL6 7PP, United Kingdom

Copyright 2013 by Joseph P. Swain

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Swain, Joseph Peter.

Historical dictionary of baroque music / Joseph P. Swain.

pages cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8108-7824-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7825-9 (electronic) 1. Music18th centuryDictionaries. 2. Music17th centuryDictionaries. I. Title.

ML100.S88 2013

780.9'03203dc23

2013005104

Picture 3 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Editors Foreword

In music, as indeed in all the arts, fashions change, and what once appealed becomes dull and uninteresting and passes. This, indeed, is what happened to Baroque music, which reigned supreme from about 1600 to about 1750these dates being very fuzzy. At any rate, about that latter date, new fashions gained ground, and Baroque music not only ceased being composed but also even being played by and large. Then, in the late 19th century and ever stronger during the early 20th, it was rediscovered and brought back to life, not only as an oddity but also as one of the strongest strands of what is usually called classical music. If anything really needs explaining here, it is not so much why Baroque music has made a comeback but how the glorious music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and many others could have been forgotten and some of it actually lost forever. Now that it is indeed back and being performed frequently and enjoyed enormously by many, we still do need to consider the period that produced it more closely to see, among other things, what the basic rules were then and how they were constantly revised and improved to the extent that one could already speak of a stile antico and a stile moderno .

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