A history of western music /

A history of western music /

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"The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring and significant - but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popul...

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Main Author: Burkholder, J. Peter
Other Authors: Grout, Donald Jay, Palisca, Claude V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2010.
Edition:8th ed.
Subjects:
Music > History and criticism.
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.

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