Leading international scholars present a comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century music, examining familiar and little-known works, repertories and musical trends.

Discusses Bach's unaccompanied pieces, including an examination of crucial issues of style and composition type and the options open to interpretation and performance. This title provides the historical background to Bach's instrumental works, as well as commentaries on each work.

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the ..

A biography of Handel of 1857, ahead of its time because of the author's extensive research into primary sources.

A guide to the 96 pieces of Bach's baroque keyboard music, Well-Tempered Clavier . David Ledbetter seeks to explain Bach's various purposes in compiling the music; describe the rich traditions on which he drew; and provide commentaries for each prelude and fugue.

A comprehensive assessment of J.S. Bach's use of articulation marks (i.e. slurs and dots) in the large body of primary sources.

A detailed guide to one of Bach's most popular keyboard works.

In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period.

In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period.

A detailed guide to one of Bach's most popular keyboard works.

A comprehensive assessment of J.S. Bach's use of articulation marks (i.e. slurs and dots) in the large body of primary sources.

1985 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti.

The life, career, loves and political enthusiasms of Mozart together with his music.

Provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Intended as a practical guide and an interpretive study, this book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice.

A study of the music of the Baroque period, with a focus on the 17th century. It examines composers and genres from Russia, the Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, and Latin America. It also includes musical examples from various genres and instrumental combinations.

Discover Music of the Baroque Era is rich in musical detail of the time, set against some of the greatest events in history, and illustrated by a website containing seventy minutes of masterpieces - both favourites and rarities.

This book comprises an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing which he wrote for the daughters of George II. Remaining faithful to the source, this is a useful book for students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.

Bach, Vivaldi and Handel are the three great composers of the Baroque era, though there are many other well-known figures, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti. This title shows how the music of these composers graced the courts and churches of Europe from 1600-1750.

An examination of the little-understood period of music history in which Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven worked.