Concise history of western music / Barbara Russano Hanning ; based on Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca, A history of western music, sixth edition.

Author/creator Hanning, Barbara Russano, 1940-
Other author Grout, Donald Jay.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, ©2002.
Descriptionxiv, 618 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Music in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450 -- Polyphonic music from its beginnings through the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century: the beginnings of an international style -- The age of the Renaissance: music of the Low Countries -- The age of the Renaissance: new currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation -- Music of the early Baroque period -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- Music in the early eighteenth century -- The early classical period: opera and instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- Opera, music drama, and church music in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World war I -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- The American twentieth century.
Abstract Thoroughly revised and updated with outstanding new pedagogy, this book provides an authoritative yet succinct survey of Western music history. Based on Grout and Paslisca's classic A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition, the new edition retains the uncompromising reliability and scope of its parent volume while offering many more pedagogical aids, including "Preludes" and "Postludes" (chapter overviews and summaries) "Etudes" (excursions that explore specific concepts in more detail) and "Windows" (boxed discussions of social and historical events). The book also features colorful vignettes (quotations from musicians and writers), vivid new illustrations (many in color), diagrams and music examples, suggested readings, and a glossary.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 579-582) and index.
LCCN 2001044683
ISBN0393977757

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