A history of Western music/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London:
W. W. Norton,
c2010
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| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Guide to recordings
- The ancient and medieval worlds. Music in antiquity
- The Christian Church in the first millennium
- Roman liturgy and chant
- Song and dance music in the Middle Ages
- Polyphony through the thirteenth century
- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century
- The Renaissance. Music and the Renaissance
- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century
- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520
- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation
- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century
- The rise of instrumental music
- The Seventeenth century. New styles in the seventeenth century
- The invention of opera
- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century
- France, England, Spain and the New World in the seventeenth century
- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century
- The eighteenth century. The early eighteenth century in Italy and France
- German composers of the late Baroque
- Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment
- Opera and vocal music in the early classic period
- Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury
- Classical music in the late eighteenth century
- Nineteenth century. Revolution and change
- The Romantic generation : song and piano music
- Romanticism in classic forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music
- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury
- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century
- Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria
- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century
- The twentieth century and after. The early twentieth century
- Modernism and the classical tradition
- Between the World Wars : jazz and popular music
- Between the World Wars : the classical tradition
- Postwar crosscurrents
- Music since 1970
- Glossary
- For further reading.