History of the Oratorio, Vol. 1 : the Oratorio in the Baroque Era / Howard E. Smither.

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; I. Introduction; PART I: The Antecedents and Origins of the Oratorio; II. The Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Roman Catholic Reform; Some Antecedents of the Oratorio; The Oratorians and Their Social Context; Antecedents of the Oratorio in Neri's Oratory; A Reappraisal of Some Oratorio Antecedents; III. The Early Baroque: Antecedents and Incunabula of the Oratorio; Antecedents; Anerio's Teatro and Some Incunabula of the Oratorio; PART II: The Oratorio in Italy, Circa 1640--1720; IV. Mid-Century Rome I: The Oratorio Volgare.

Social, Artistic, and Literary BackgroundMusical Background; The Oratories and Their Music; Examples of the Oratorio Volgare; The Chief Characteristics of the Oratorio Volgare; V. Mid-Century Rome II: Carissimi and the Oratorio Latino; Rome's Latin Oratory and Its Music; Giacomo Carissimi; Some Contemporaries of Carissimi; The Chief Characteristics of the Oratorio Latino; VI. The Later Baroque I: Social Contexts, Patrons, Composers, Poets; Rome; Other Centers; VII. The Later Baroque II: The Libretto and Music; The Libretto; The Music of the Oratorio from the 1660s to the 1680s.

The Music of the Oratorio from the 1680s to about 1720Conclusion; PART III: The Italian Oratorio Outside Italy; VIII. Vienna; The Oratorio and Sepolcro in Vienna; IX. Paris; Social and Musical Background; Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the Latin Oratorio; Parisian Oratorios After Charpentier; Bibliography.

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque antecedents and origins of the oratorio, with emphasis on Rome and Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory and with special attention to the earliest works for which the term oratorio seems appropriate.

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