Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Paradox and contradiction

Exterior    “nature”    and interior    “affect”

Postscript: The English madrigal

Chapter 18  Reformations    and Counter-Reformations

Music of the Lutheran Church; Venetian Cathedral Music

The challenge

The Lutheran    chorale

The response

Augenmusik

“Concerted” music

The art of  orchestration   is  born

“Songs” for instruments

Chapter 19  Pressure    of  Radical Humanism

The “Representational” Style and the Basso Continuo; Intermedii; Favole in Musica

The technical,  the esthetic,   and the ideological

Academies

The representational    style

Intermedii

The “monodic    revolution”

Madrigals   and arias   redux

Favole  in  musica

Oratorio

Notes

Art Credits

Further Reading:    A   Checklist   of  Books   in  English

Index