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Mediaeval and early Renaissance music. Music in the early church Christian chant ; Music in the early church the beginnings of part music ; Music outside the church solo song and dance music ; The all embracing style of the thirteenth century ; The new art ; Music in the early Renaissance -- Late Renaissance and Baroque music. The late Renaissance secular music ; The late Renaissance sacred music instrumental music ; The Baroque music for the stage I ; The Baroque music for the stage II ; The Baroque music in church, hall and home ; The Baroque instrumental music -- The sonata principle. The birth of sonata ; Haydn ; Mozart music for home and church ; Beethoven ; Schubert ; Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler ; The birth of a new kind of opera ; Wagner ; Berlioz ; Verdi and nineteenth century Italian opera -- Romanticism and the 20th century. Introspection and nationalism. Chopin, Schumann, and Mendelssohn ; Liszt and romantic virtuosity ; The Russian nationalists ; The nationalists of central Europe ; The decline of nationalism -- Introspection and isolation. Two song-writers ; Franck and his disciples: with a note on Skryabin ; Delius, Sibelius, and nature ; Debussy and Ravel ; Two traditionalists Faure and Strauss ; Elgar and Vaughan Williams ; Schoenberg and Hindemith ; Stravinsky and Bartok ; Europe today ; Music in a new-found land. |
