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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
Joseph P. Swain
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK
2013
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Copyright 2013 by Joseph P. Swain
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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
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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 .