| Contents |
Part one. The ancient and medieval worlds. Music in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome. Music in Ancient Greek life and thought ; Roman music, 200 B.C.E.-500 C.E. ; The early Christian church: musical thought ; The early Christian church: musical practice -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages. Western Christian chant and liturgy ; Genres and forms of chant ; Medieval music theory and practice ; Medieval song -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century. Early organum ; Notre Dame polyphony ; The motet ; The polyphonic conductus ; English polyphony -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. The Ars nova in France ; Italian Trecento music ; The Ars subtilior -- Part two. The age of the Renaissance. England, France, and Burgundy in the fifteenth century: the beginnings of an international style. English music and its influence ; Music in Burgundian lands -- Music of the Low countries. The musical culture of the Renaissance ; Northern composers: the generation after Du Fay ; The next generation: Josquin and his contemporaries -- Secular song and the rise of national styles in the sixteenth century. The rise of national styles: Italy ; The Italian madrigal ; The rise of national styles: secular song outside Italy ; The rise of instrumental music -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation. The music of the Reformation in Germany ; Reformation church music outside Germany ; The Counter-Reformation -- Part three. The seventeenth century. Vocal music of the early Baroque. General characteristics of Baroque music ; Early opera ; Vocal chamber music ; Catholic sacred music ; Lutheran Church music -- Instrumental music comes of age. Types of instrumental music ; Dance music ; Variations ; Abstract instrumental works -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century. Italy ; France ; England ; Germany -- Instrumental music in the late seventeenth century. Music for organ ; Music for harpsichord ; Ensemble music -- Part four. The eighteenth century. Music in the early eighteenth century. Italy: Antonio Vivaldi ; France: Couperin and Rameau ; Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach ; England: George Frideric Handel -- The early classical period: opera and instrumental music in the early and mid-eighteenth century. General characteristics of the new style ; Opera buffa ; Opera seria ; Opera reform ; Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto ; The Empfindsamer style -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart. (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ; Haydn's instrumental music ; Haydn's vocal works ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ; Mozart's Salzburg years ; Mozart's Vienna years -- Ludwig van Beethoven. First period ; Second period ; Third period -- Part five. The nineteenth century: the age of Romanticism. The early Romantics. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ; Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) ; Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) ; Robert Schumann (1810-1856) ; Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) -- The later Romantics. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) ; Clara Schumann (1819-1896) ; Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) ; Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ; Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) -- Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century. French grand (and not so grand) opera ; Italian opera ; German romantic opera ; Church music -- The final bloom of Romanticism: European music at the end of the nineteenth century. The Austro-German tradition ; National trends ; New currents in France and Italy ; Postlude: The Beethoven legacy -- Part six. The twentieth century and today. The European mainstream in the early twentieth century. The first modern generation ; Tonal and post-tonal music -- Music, politics, and the people in the European twentieth century. The avant-garde ; France ; Igor Stravinsky ; Béla Bartók ; Germany ; The Soviet Union -- Music in America. A backward glance: music in the North American colonies ; Diverging trends in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America ; The classical tradition through mid-century ; Vernacular styles -- The changing world of music since 1945. Heirs to the classical tradition ; Serial and nonserial complexity ; New sounds and textures ; The avant-garde ; The new accessibility and other trends. |
| Abstract |
Designed to help students focus on the essential genres and works of the Western music tradition, this book places its emphasis squarely on the music itself. Major revisions in this edition include chronological reorganization of nineteenth-century chapters and expanded coverage of American and twentieth-century repertoires. Streamlined organization, elegantly clear prose, and a number of new pedagogical aids--including part introductions, innovations sidebars, and In Performance boxes--ensure that this book will appeal to any student looking to learn the essential developments in Western music history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages A1-A5) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006040137 |
| ISBN | 0393928039 |
| ISBN | 9780393928037 |
