The international library of music for home and studio : music literature. / containing chapters by Romain Rolland, Pierre Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, Pietro Mascagni, Henry T. Finck, Horatio Parker, and others.

Format Book
PublicationNew York : The University Society, Inc., 1962.
Copyright Date©1948
Descriptionvi, approximately 394 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, music ; 29 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.
Composers--20th century. --Biography.
Composers--19th century. --Biography.

Other author/creatorSimpson, Eugene E., 1871-1929, author.
Other author/creatorRolland, Romain, 1866-1944 author.
Other author/creatorLalo, Pierre, 1866-1943, author.
Other author/creatorIndy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 author.
Other author/creatorMascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945 author.
Other author/creatorMaclean, C. D., author.
Other author/creatorMartens, Frederick Herman, 1874-1932 author.
Other author/creatorMacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 author.
Other author/creatorBrower, G. Ackley (Grover Ackley), 1884- author.
Other author/creatorSaerchinger, César, 1889-1971, author.
Other author/creatorParker, Horatio W. (Horatio William), 1863-1919 author.
Other author/creatorDibdin, James C. (James Caxton), 1856-1901, author.
Other author/creatorElson, Arthur, 1873-1940, author.
Other author/creatorUniversity Society (U.S.), issuing body.
Variant title History of music : critical and biographical sketches of the epoch makers of music : the modern and contemporary schools, national groups
Contents Critical and biographical sketches on modern music. Bruckner, Mahler and their successors / Eugene E. Simpson -- Richard [Strauss] / Romain Rolland -- Camille Saint-Saëns / Pierre Lalo -- César Franck / Vincent d'Indy -- The music of modern France -- The legacy of the century / Pietro Mascagni -- Arthur Seymour Sullivan / Charles Maclean -- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- America's position in music / Eugene E. Simpson -- The composers of America / Frederick H. Martens -- Henry T. Finck / Edward MacDowell -- Afro-American composers / Grover Brower -- Ernest Bloch / Cesar Saerchinger -- Contemporary music / Horatio Parker -- Nationality in music / James C. Dibdin -- Musical taste in children / Arthur Elson --
Contents A history of music. Introduction -- The drum stage -- The pipe stage -- The voice -- The lyre stage -- The Egyptians -- The Assyrians -- The Hebrews -- The Chinese, Indo-Chinese, and other Mongoloids -- The Peruvians and Mexicans -- The ancient Aryans -- The Greeks -- The Romans -- Early Christian music -- The music of thte Middle Ages -- English music from the Tudors to the Stuarts -- The birth of opera and oratorio -- General development of opera in Europe -- Oratorio in the time of Bach and Handel -- The progress of instrumental music up to the time of Johann Sebastian Bach -- The progress of instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- Opera in the time of Gluck and Mozart, and immediately after -- The progress of instrumental music to Beethoven and his immediate successors -- Modern instrumental music -- Modern opera -- Modern vocal music -- New works in recent years -- Biographical dictionary of musicians -- Pronouncing dictionary of musical terms.

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