1. Introduction
Music History 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas
Historical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750
Music in European History, 1600-1750
The Place of Music and Musicians in Society
Performance Practices
2. A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and Madrigal
The Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus
The Madrigal
3. Transitions Around 1600
Some General Developments
The Basso Continuo
Instruments
Monody
4. Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdi's Orfeo
Later Works
Venetian Opera
5. Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century
Barbara Strozzi
Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata
The Dissemination of Baroque Style
6. Lully and French Musical Drama
The French Style
Lully's Armide
7. Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music
Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli
Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schütz
Seventeenth-Century Oratorio
Lalande and the Grand Motet
8. Late Baroque Opera
Handel
Rameau
9. Late Baroque Sacred Music
J. S. Bach
Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio
10. Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite
The Lute and Its Repertory
Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy
Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany
11. Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pièces
Later Baroque Keyboard Music
J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments
Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France
Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers
12. Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata
The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque
Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble
The Baroque Sonata
13. Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto
The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia
The Baroque Concerto
14. A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style
The Galant Style
Bibliography
Index