Music in Western CivilizationW. W. Norton & Company, 1997 - 1107 pagine This monumental history of Western music and musical culture has stood for the past half-century as the definitive work of its kind. Vast in scope, it begins with the music of ancient Greece and carries through the first decades of the twentieth century. Rather than viewing music in isolation, the author presents it as one of the many arts that, taken in conjunction, form the essence of the artistic spirit of an era. |
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Poetry Song and Instrumental Music | 6 |
The Sociological Aspects of Music | 12 |
The Last Phase of Classical Music | 18 |
Comparison of the Music of Ancient Greece and Byzantium | 24 |
ROME | 31 |
THE PATRISTIC PERIOD 377 | 37 |
The Organization of the Service of Worship | 51 |
GREGORIAN ART AND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE | 62 |
Rapprochement of Church Music and Opera | 475 |
Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque | 481 |
English Music in the Late Baroque | 515 |
Bach and Handel | 526 |
The Rise of the Rococo from the Disintegrating Baroque | 533 |
RousseauThe Buffoon WarThe Opéra Comique | 547 |
New Aspects of Opera Seria and Tragédie Lyrique | 553 |
Enlightened Absolutism | 567 |
The Cantus Romanus in the Carolingian Empire | 66 |
The Decline of Gregorian | 75 |
Theoretical Artistic and Philosophical Conceptions of Music | 84 |
Lyric Poetry Parody and Persiflage | 96 |
The Awakening of Italian Lyricism by Provençal | 112 |
THE GOTHIC | 122 |
Forms and Devices of Early Polyphony | 128 |
Romanesque and Gothic | 136 |
THE ARS NOVA | 144 |
The Ars Nova in France | 152 |
The Practice of Trecento Music | 158 |
Renaissance Music Vindicated by Modern Research | 174 |
The Rise of a NeoGothic Style | 183 |
Migration of Flemish Musicians | 190 |
Reformation and RenaissanceHumanism in Germany | 199 |
Burgundian and FrancoFlemish Influence in German | 205 |
The Classical Netherlands Style and Its Internationalization | 213 |
The Venetian School | 219 |
The Final Synthesis of Polyphony | 226 |
Changes in the MusicoPolitical Situation | 237 |
German Music in the Late Renaissance | 250 |
The Second Period of the French Renaissance | 252 |
Spain and Its Music During the Renaissance | 259 |
The Choral Composers of the HispanoFlemish School | 265 |
Early Tudor Composers | 272 |
The Elizabethan and Jacobean School | 283 |
Aesthetic Doctrines of the Renaissance | 292 |
Repercussions of HumanismTendency Toward the Lyric Stage | 303 |
Music in the New World | 311 |
Religious Thought as the Motive Power of Early Baroque | 317 |
Romanticism in the BaroqueThe Theater | 327 |
The Early Music Drama | 334 |
Sacred OperaOratorioComic Opera | 343 |
The New Technique of Composition and Performance | 357 |
Principles and Types of Instrumental Music | 364 |
Western Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century | 372 |
The Fundamental Opposition of French Thought to Opera | 383 |
The Musical Baroque in Germany | 392 |
Early Baroque Opera in Germany | 403 |
The Baroque in Other Countries | 418 |
THE LATE BAROQUE | 430 |
Opera in the Late Baroque | 446 |
Italian Opera in Germany | 456 |
Catholic Church Music in the Late Baroque | 463 |
Music and the EnlightenmentThe Berlin School | 574 |
The Relationship of Musical Theory and Practice | 585 |
The Antecedents of the Preclassic Symphony | 591 |
THE CLASSIC ERA | 618 |
Haydn | 624 |
Mozart | 630 |
THE PERIPHERIES OF EIGHTEENTHCENTURY MUSIC | 675 |
America | 687 |
EighteenthCentury Conception of Vocal Music | 695 |
EighteenthCentury Musical Practice | 708 |
The Social Aspects of EighteenthCentury Music | 719 |
Musical Criticism and Historiography | 725 |
Failure of the Enlightenment to Produce an Art of the People | 731 |
The Romantic Movement in Germany | 740 |
Schubert | 776 |
French Opera During Revolution Directoire and Empire | 786 |
Early Romantic Opera in Germany | 793 |
ROMANTICISM | 801 |
MendelssohnSchumannChopin | 809 |
Stylistic Criticism of Romantic Music | 816 |
The Grand Opera | 825 |
German Opera | 839 |
The Search for the AllEmbracing Universal | 846 |
Church Music and the New SymphonicDramatic Tendencies | 853 |
Wagner | 859 |
COUNTER CURRENTS | 895 |
THE PERIPHERIES OF NINETEENTHCENTURY MUSIC | 916 |
France | 923 |
England | 929 |
Nationalism in Music | 938 |
Scandinavia | 958 |
NineteenthCentury Musical Thought | 973 |
Musical Criticism | 979 |
Musicology | 985 |
Instrumental Music | 992 |
Opera | 998 |
Church Music | 1006 |
The Last Stylistic Synthesis of the Century | 1014 |
The Decline of the West? | 1023 |
Notes | 1031 |
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