Aspects of the secular cantata in late Baroque Italy
In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, …
The contributors to this volume address such topics as the early history of the orchestra, iconography, pitch, and continuo practice, as well as questions relating specifically to the performance of baroque music. Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recog…
Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.
Calderón and the Baroque tradition
by Ara, Jesús Antonio, Levy, Kurt L., Hughes, John Gethin
Luigi de' Rossi (ca. 1597-1653), one of the most highly-regarded composers of his time, lived and worked in Rome during the politically turbulent early years of the Baroque period when opera, oratorio, and cantata were in their nascent stages. In her thematic index of de' Rossi'…
