Laaber Verlag Lexikon der Musik des Barock: In 2 Bänden

The lexicon of the music of the Baroque offers in two subvolumes an impressive and comprehensive panorama of music and the cultural phenomena associated with it between 1600 and 1750. It includes articles on musicians and persons relevant to music, cultural centers and currents, musical terms, and nonfictional terms of other disciplines such as the visual arts, architecture, literature, theatre, history, philosophy, theology, social history, medicine or natural sciences, as long as they are related to music. The music of baroque - from A - Z For the first time, a large reference book opens up the richness and diversity of the music of the Baroque and explains all the terms relevant to understanding the subject field. Over 1,100 keywords networked together by references inform about composers, musicians and regents of the time, about genres, instruments, terms of music theory and practice, as well as cities, courts and institutions where music life flourished. Generally timing, cultural and religious history articles provide the necessary backgrounds for the music-specific contributions, thus creating a true kaleidoscope of this fascinating epoch and music as one of its most concise means of expression. With this thematic diversity, the new lexicon delivers a unique wealth of approaches to the spirit world and musical understanding of the Baroque. With the collaboration of over 80 renowned authors, the lexicon of the music of the Baroque has emerged a comprehensive work that reflects the great currents of the time between the beginning of the 17th and the middle of the 18th century and their music and invites both to look up and browse. Over more than 1,400 pages, an inexhaustible fund of knowledge unfolds for all who deal with the music of the Baroque.