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A New European Music

出版	Inter Nationes, 1985
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2zpLAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The history of European music in the 17th and 18th centuries is associated with three names, the names of men who contributed decisively to the development and dissemination of new musical formas and structures which were to affect and dominate the future. They are Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). A century before Bach and Handel, Heinrich Schutz became the father of modern music through the combination and assimilation of the Italian-Netherlands music with the traditional musical forms of central Germany. Without his work and his musical theories which were carried out into the world by his pupils, neither the Baroque nor the Classical and Romantic music of Germany and Europe would have existed in the forms we know. In George Frideric Handel the music of the Baroque found its ambassador. With his operas and still more with his great oratorios, he is the complete expression of the Baroque response to life and the wealth of musical expression of that period. But the point of convergence of all European music is the work of the composer whom all Western music was to take its authority from then on: Johann Sebastian Bach. Their life, their creativity and their influence on the history of music is outlined in the chapters of this book. This account includes their origins, evolution and social environment as well as their musical development.