Music in the Baroque

by Wendy Heller

Wendy Heller's Music in the Baroque traces the production and consumption of music in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Going beyond a history of styles, the text explores patronage, education, religious and civic ritual, theater, and visual culture. Heller focuses not only on the nature of music in the Baroque period, but also on the very different ways in which men and women experienced music in their daily lives. Treating music as an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393929175
• ISBN13: 9780393929171
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"