The Baroque Libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the thomas fisher library, u of t / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, Parker, Mary Ann

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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The Baroque libretto : Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto / by Pietropaolo, Domenico, 1949-, Parker, Mary Ann, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The Collection -- The Opera Libretty -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio.…”
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Auf Weiner Art : music from the Habsburg Imperial Court /

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Baroque works for horn and organ /

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How to listen to and understand great music : The High Baroque, by Greenberg, Robert, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Lecture 13, Baroque sacred music, part 1 : the oratorio --…”

Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain / by Holman, Peter, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Directing Choral Music -- 1 'Heard but not Seen': Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ -- 2 'With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand': Large- Scale Choral Music -- 3 'Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand': Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios -- 4 'The Conductor at the Organ': The Oratorio Tradition after Handel…”
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Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

Table of Contents: “…Purcell's "scurvy" poets / Roger Savage -- Opera as literature and the triumph of music / Martin Adams -- The British enchanters and George Granville's theory of opera / Wolfgang Hirschmann -- Lost chances: obstacles to English opera for Purcell and Handel / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Alexander's feast, or The power of perseverance: Dryden's plan for English opera and its near-fulfilment in a Handel ode / Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood -- Ombra mai fu: shades of Greece and Rome in the librettos for Handel's London operas / Peter Brown -- Handel and the uses of antiquity / Reinhard Strohm -- From Metastasio's Alessandro to Handel's Poro: a change of dramatic emphasis / Graham Cummings -- Deidamia as an "Heroi-comi-pastoral" opera / Sarah McCleave -- Seventeenth-century literary classics as eighteenth-century libretto sources: Congreve, Dryden and Milton in the 1730s and 1740s / Matthew Gardner -- "In this ballance seek a character": the role of "il moderato" in L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Ruth Smith -- "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures": glancing and gazing spectatorship in Handel's L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato / Matthew Badham -- Accompanied recitative and characterisation in Handel's oratorios / Liam Gorry -- Handel, Charles Jennens and the advent of scriptural oratorio / John H. …”
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The music of the figured bass era / by Hausswald, Günter, 1908-1974

Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.…”

Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.…”
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Music and the exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart / by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Courtly ballets ; Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts ; Oratorio and other religious genres ; Early opera and partly sung stage works ; French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel ; Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works -- Obsession with the Middle East : from the Parisian fairs to Mozart.…”
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The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century music /

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance, mannerism, Baroque / Tim Carter -- The seventeenth-century musical "work" / John Butt -- Music in the market-place / Stephen Rose -- Music in new worlds / Victor Anand Coelho -- Music and the arts / Barbara Russano Hanning -- Music and the sciences / Penelope Gouk -- The search for musical meaning / Tim Carter -- Power and display : music in court theatre / Lois Rosow -- Mask and illusion : Italian opera after 1637 / Tim Carter -- The church triumphant : music in the liturgy / Noel O'Regan -- Devotion, piety and commemoration : sacred songs and oratorios / Robert L. Kendrick -- Image and eloquence : secular song / Margaret Murata -- Fantasy and craft : the solo instrumentalist / Alexander Silbiger -- Form and gesture : canzona, sonata and concerto / Gregory Barnett.…”

Music in the London theatre from Purcell to Handel /

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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. by Locke, Ralph P.

Table of Contents: “…Representation(s) and empireHow exotic meanings are conveyed; Instrumental dances bearing an ethnic/national label; Instrumental pieces without verbal indication of ethnicity; Vocal music in operas and oratorios: meaning-centered approaches ... ; ... and meaning-neutral principles; Part II The West and its Others; 3 The early cultural background; From the Greek tragedies ... ; ... to the church fathers; Interactions with the Ottoman world; Impressions of the Middle East and Middle Easterners; 4 Encounters; A world of heathens- and its impact on Europe; Ancient Greece and Rome as models.…”
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Bohemian Baroque : Czech musical culture and style, 1600-1750 / by Rawson, Robert

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