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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This study of the German concerto in the eighteenth-century is approached through the work of five composers: J. S. Bach Handel Telemann Hasse and C. P. E. Bach. The author explores such questions as dating reliability of source material formal structure and stylistic features of the concertos. The works are set in their broad historical context and comparisons are drawn between German and Italian concertos and between the concerto and other genres. Although not intended as a comprehen-sive history of the concerto certain general points do emerge such as the growing use of recapitulatory designs and the ultimate rejection of baroque style. The book includes an extensive bibliography and some 150 musical examples. There are appendices to the chapters on Telemann Hasse C. P. E. Bach and Handel the last of which concerns Handel’s borrowings and assesses the relationship between different workings of the same material. Pippa Drummond is Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield. (MP)