Companion to Baroque Music - Softcover

Julie Ann Sadie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520214145 ISBN 13: 9780520214149

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.

About this title

Review:

"A volume that genuinely deserves the epithet 'indispensable.'"--Michael Kennedy, "Sunday Telegraph "Enticing to the musicological sleuth. . . . A rich source of information.--"Eccb: Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography"

About the Author:

Julie Anne Sadie is a music critic, historian, and performer specializing in Baroque music. In 1995 she was appointed Director of the Handel House Museum in London, scheduled to open in 2000. She is coeditor of the Norton-Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520214145
• ISBN 13: 9780520214149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 568