A history of western music / J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca.

Author/creator Burkholder, J. Peter author.
Other author Grout, Donald Jay, author.
Other author Palisca, Claude V., author.
Format Book
EditionNinth edition.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Descriptionxlii, 1,009, 143 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Part one. The Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Music in antiquity. The earliest music -- Music in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Timeline -- Music in Ancient Greece -- In performance: competitions and professional musicians -- Music in Ancient Rome -- The Greek heritage -- The Christian church in the first millennium. The diffusion of Christianity -- The Judaic heritage -- Timeline -- Music in the early church -- Divisions in the church and dialects of chant -- Timeline -- The development of notation -- Music in context: in the Monastic Scriptorium -- Music theory and practice -- Echoes of history -- Roman liturgy and chant. The Roman liturgy -- Music in context: the experience of the mass -- Characteristics of chant -- Timeline -- Genres and forms of chant -- Additions to the authorized chants -- Hildegard of Bingen -- The continuing presence of chant -- Song and dance music to 1300. European society, 800-1300 -- Timeline -- Latin and vernacular song -- Music in context: minstrels in Medieval French cities -- Troubadour and Trouv̈re song -- Forms at a glance: AAB -- Song in other lands -- Medieval instruments -- Dance music -- The lover's complaint -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century. Early organum -- Aquitanian polyphony -- Notre Dame polyphony -- Timeline -- Motet -- English polyphony -- A polyphonic tradition -- New developments in the fourteenth century. Europe in the fourteenth century -- The Ars nova in France -- Innovations: writing rhythm -- Guillaume de Machaut -- Forms at a glance: the formes fixes -- Timeline -- The Ars subtilior -- Italian trecento music -- Fourteenth-century music in performance -- In performance: voices or instruments? -- Echoes of the new art -- Part two. The Renaissance. Music and the Renaissance. Europe from 1400 to 1600 -- Timeline -- The Renaissance in culture and art -- Music in the Renaissance -- In performance: a star singer and improviser -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Innovations: music printing -- The legacy of the Renaissance -- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century. English music -- Music in the Burgundian lands -- Guillaume Du Fay -- The polyphonic mass -- Timeline -- Music in context: music and dragons -- An enduring musical language -- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520. Political change and consolidation -- Ockeghem and Busnoys -- The generation of 1480-1520 -- Josquin Desprez -- Timeline -- Masses on borrowed material -- Old and new -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation. The Reformation -- Music in the Lutheran church -- Music in Calvinist churches -- Timeline -- Church music in England -- Timeline -- Catholic church music -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Spain and the New World -- Germany and Eastern Europe -- Jewish music -- The legacy of sixteenth-century sacred music -- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century. The first market for music -- Spain -- Timeline -- Italy -- The Italian madrigal -- France -- Germany -- England -- The madrigal and its impact -- The rise of instrumental music. Instruments -- In performance: embellishing sixteenth-century music -- Types of instrumental music -- Music in context: social dance -- Timeline -- Music in Venice -- Instrumental music gains independence -- Part three. The seventeenth century. New styles in the seventeenth century. Europe in the seventeenth century -- Timeline -- From Renaissance to Baroque -- General characteristics of Baroque music -- In performance: Historically Informed Performance and its controversies -- Enduring innovations -- The invention of opera. Forerunners of opera -- Timeline -- The first operas -- Claudio Monteverdi -- The spread of opera -- Innovations: the operatic diva -- Opera as drama and as theater -- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century. Italian vocal chamber music -- Catholic sacred music -- Timeline -- Lutheran church music -- Jewish music -- Instrumental music -- Tradition and innovation -- France, England, Spain, the New World in the seventeenth century. France -- Music in context: the music of the great stable -- Timeline -- England -- Spain and the New World -- National styles and traditions -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century. Italy -- Forms at a glance: da capo aria -- Timeline -- Music in context: the Stradivarius violin workshop -- Timeline -- Germany and Austria -- Seeds for the future --
Contents Part four. The eighteenth century. The early eighteenth century in Italy and France. Europe in a century of change -- Music in Italy -- Music in context: the voice of Farinelli -- Antonio Vivaldi -- In performance: performing Vivaldi -- Timeline -- Music in France -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Timeline -- A volatile public -- German composers of the late Baroque. Contexts for music -- Timeline -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- George Frideric Handel -- An enduring legacy -- Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment. Europe in the Enlightenment -- Innovations: the public concert -- Musical taste and style -- Timeline -- The enduring Enlightenment -- Opera and vocal music in the early Classic period. Italian comic opera -- Opera seria -- Opera in other languages -- In performance: the art of vocal embellishment -- Timeline -- Opera reform -- Song and church music -- Opera and the new language -- Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto. Instruments and ensembles -- Genres and forms -- Forms at a glance: binary form and its relatives -- Keyboard music -- Orchestral music -- Timeline -- The singing instrument -- Classic music in the late eighteenth century. Joseph Haydn -- Timeline -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Classic music -- Part five. The nineteenth century. Revolution and change. Revolution, war, and music, 1789-1815 -- Timeline -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Beethoven's centrality -- The Romantic generation: song and piano music. The new order, 1815-1848 -- Timeline -- Innovations: musical instruments in the Industrial Revolution -- Romanticism -- Song -- Music for piano -- Music in context: women and the music profession -- The Romantic legacy -- Romanticism in classical forms: choral, chamber, and orchestral music. Orchestral music -- Timeline -- Chamber music -- Choral music -- Romanticism and the classical tradition -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury. The roles of opera -- Timeline -- Italy -- In performance: the bel canto diva -- France -- Germany -- Russia -- The United States -- Opera as high culture -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century. Technology, politics, and the arts -- Opera -- Richard Wagner -- Music in context: Wagner, nationalism, and anti-Semitism -- Giuseppe Verdi -- In performance: an original Verdi baritone: Victor Maurel -- Later Italian opera -- France -- Russia -- Other nations -- Timeline -- Music for the stage and its audiences -- Late Romanticism in German musical culture. Dichotomies and disputes -- Timeline -- In performance: crossing the divide: Hans von B ow -- Johannes Brahms -- The Wagnerians -- Reaching the audience -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century. France -- Eastern and Northern Europe -- The United States -- Timeline -- Reception and recognition -- Part six. The twentieth century and after. The early twentieth century: vernacular music. Modern times, 1889-1918 -- Innovations: recorded sound -- Vernacular musical traditions -- Timeline -- African American traditions -- Classics of vernacular music -- The early twentieth century: the classical tradition. Modern music in the classical tradition -- Timeline -- German modernism: Mahler and Strauss -- In performance: Mahler as conductor -- French modernism: Debussy and Ravel -- Modernism and national traditions -- The avant-garde -- Late Romantic or modern? -- Radical modernists. Arnold Schoenberg -- Music in context: expressionism -- Alban Berg -- Timeline -- Anton Webern -- Igor Stravinsky -- B̌la Bart̤k -- Charles Ives -- Composer and audience -- Between the World Wars: jazz and popular music. Between the Wars -- Timeline -- American musical theater and popular song -- The jazz age -- Duke Ellington -- Film music -- Mass media and popular music -- Between the World Wars: the classical tradition. Music, politics, and the people -- Timeline -- France -- Germany -- The Soviet Union -- The Americas -- The United States -- What politics? -- Postwar crosscurrents. The Cold War and the postwar boom -- Timeline -- From bebop to free jazz -- Popular music -- Broadway and film music -- Band and wind ensemble music -- Roll over, Beethoven -- Postwar heirs to the classical tradition. Diversity and common themes -- Timeline -- Extensions of tradition -- John Cage and the avant-garde -- New sounds and textures -- Mixing styles and traditions -- New paths -- The late twentieth century. A global culture -- Timeline -- The changing world of music -- In performance: Kronos Quartet -- Music in context: digital technologies in the 1980s -- Niches in popular music -- Minimalism and postminimalism -- Modernism and individualism -- Polystylism -- The new accessibility -- Finding an audience -- The twenty-first century. The new millennium -- Timeline -- The new world of music -- Innovations: music technology for everyone -- The future of Western music.
Abstract Renowned for its comprehensive coverage of genres and styles in Western music from antiquity to the present, this book has secured its place--through six editions and for almost a half- century--as the definitive resource for every music student. Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that have always defined this classic text, the author has meticulously revised and restructured the text to make it more accessible for today's students. This revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy and striking four-color design.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013035016
ISBN9780393918298 (hardcover)
ISBN0393918297 (hardcover)
ISBN9780393937114
ISBN0393937119
Standard identifier# 10804129

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