The Early Baroque Era : From the Late 16th Century to the 1660s

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Music, Style and Society....Pages 1-22 The North Italian Courts....Pages 23-48 Rome: Sacred and Secular....Pages 49-74 Venice, 1580–1680....Pages 75-102 Bologna, 1580–1700....Pages 103-120 Florence: Musical Spectacle and Drama, 1570–1650....Pages 121-145 Vienna, 1580–1705....Pages 146-163 Dresden at the Time of Heinrich Schütz....Pages 164-184 Protestant North Germany....Pages 185-205 The Low Countries....Pages 206-217 Paris, 1600–61....Pages 218-238 Paris, 1661–87: the Age of Lully....Pages 239-269 London, 1603–49....Pages 270-304 London: Commonwealth and Restoration....Pages 305-326 Spain....Pages 327-348 Mexico....Pages 349-360 Back Matter....Pages 361-399 Begins with the innovations of Monteverdi and developments in Northern Italy. By the end of the 1670s the Baroque spirit flourished north of the Alps, at the courts in Paris, Vienna, London and the German states. Spain and Portugal also made distinctive contributions to the culture of the Baroque.