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A history of western music created by Donald J Grout and Claude V Palisca

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Norton 2001Edition: SixthDescription: 843 pages illustration 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393976885
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML160 GRO
Contents:
Maps -- Color plates -- Preface to the sixth edition -- Abbreviations -- Musical life and thought in ancient Greece and Rome -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- Beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- Age of the Renaissance: Music of the low countries -- 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 -- Sonata, symphony, and opera in the early Classic period -- 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 and music drama in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World War I -- European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- American twentieth century -- Credits -- Maps.
Summary: Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Maps -- Color plates -- Preface to the sixth edition -- Abbreviations -- Musical life and thought in ancient Greece and Rome -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- Beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- Age of the Renaissance: Music of the low countries -- 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 -- Sonata, symphony, and opera in the early Classic period -- 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 and music drama in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World War I -- European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- American twentieth century -- Credits -- Maps.

Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.

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