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Baroque instrumental music / prepared by Owain Edwards for the Course Team.
| Author/creator | Edwards, Owain Tudor |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1974. |
| Description | 2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The development of instruments and their music ; units 4-9 Arts, a third level course Arts, a third level course. ^A1142182 |
| Contents | v. 1. People, instruments and the continuo. Introduction -- People and places. The age of the violin ; The first public concerts ; Some definitions ; Amateur music-making in England ; Patronage ; Taste ; Extemporary embellishment -- The continuo. Background ; Musical shorthand: figured bass ; Tonality and harmonic stability ; Continuo instruments ; Baroque view of the bass ; Practical matters ; The keyboard player as soloist ; Realizing the figured bass -- Instruments. The violin ; The viola ; Bass instruments ; Wind instruments ; Instruments in the early eighteenth-century orchestra -- v. 2. Suite, sonata and concerto. Instrumental forms. Preamble ; Origins and terminology ; The suite ; Italy ; Germany ; On the character of the dances ; France ; England ; Strength of French influence ; Georg Philipp Telemann ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; George Frideric Handel ; Recapitulation: on the form of the dances ; Key relationships of movements in a suite ; Developments from the Baroque suite ; The sonata ; Definitions ; The size of the field ; Historical perspective: first beginnings ; Late seventeenth-century centres: Bologna, Venice and Modena ; Rome: Arcangelo Corelli ; Sequence and 'circle of fifths' ; Germany and Austria ; A late start in France ; England: Henry Purcell ; Course of action ; Introducing the concerto ; Corelli ; Music in church and chamber ; Venice: Antonio Vivaldi ; Albinoni and the Marcello brothers ; Introducing ritornello form and fugue ; Ritornello form ; Fugue ; Canon and ground bass ; Instrumental music: Florence and Padua ; Italians abroad ; Georg Muffat and composers of the suite concerto ; Germany: Abaco, Telemann and Quantz ; The concerto in Germany ; Bach ; Handel ; Geminiani ; Locatelli ; Leclair and Rameau ; Conclusion. |
| General note | "A304." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 0335008526 (v.1) |