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Baroque music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Wendy Heller's Music in the Baroque traces the productionand consumption of music in the seventeenth and early eighteenthcentury. Going beyond a history of styles, the text explorespatronage, education, religious and civic ritual, theater, andvisual culture. Heller focuses not only on the nature of music inthe Baroque period, but also on the very different ways in whichmen and women experienced music in their daily lives. Treatingmusic as an expression of political and national identity, sheexamines it in the context of the era's art and literature,political and religious conflicts, and contentious issues of classand gender. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises sixvolumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by arecognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examinesmusic in the broadest sense?as sounds notated, performed, andheard?focusing not only on composers and works, but also onbroader social and intellectual currents.