by Lorenzo Bianconi · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521269155
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«Music in the Seventeenth Century» is Lorenzo Bianconi's essay on music history, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback, 364 pages.
The book analyzes the transformation of European music in the seventeenth century: the rise of the polyphonic madrigal, the basso continuo and the growth of instrumental music, as well as the birth of opera, and addresses the social and cultural context of the musician, the theory and the publishing business of the era.
This illustrated edition, English translation by David Bryant of the Italian original «Il Seicento», includes bibliography and index and was published in 1987.
A standard academic work for musicology students, art historians and scholars of the Baroque period.
