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Subject(s)

• Music—History and criticism [Browse]

Summary note

A book that will enable the reader to have a greater understanding of music's role in our lives, this is a comprehensive study of the history of music from antiquity to the modern era. This book makes its subject matter lively and engaging by including loads of information in a way that the reader can easily grasp with its clearly-written narrative, use of illustrations, information boxes, composer profiles, and generous quantities of interesting material, such as composers' letters and critic's reviews of music throughout the ages. A two-volume anthology and an eight CD set of carefully chosen musical scores are included with this book. This book maintains the traditional divisions of music history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century, all connected by themes such as texture, melody, harmony, rhythm, and composers, which allow the reader to compare and contrast the different elements of musical style throughout the ages.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-689) and index.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Various performers on accompanying disc.

Contents

• On accompanying CD: Antiphon Laus Deo Patri and Psalm 112 Laudate pueri / Plainchant Vespers for Trinity Sunday
• Ordo virtutum / Hildegard von Bingen
• Garrit gallus ; In nova fert ; Neuma / Philippe de Vitry
• Conditor alme siderum / Guillaume Du Fay
• El grillo / Josquin des Prez
• Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal / Ludwig Senfl
• Silberweise / Hans Sachs
• La morisque / Tielman Susato
• Al fonte, al prato / Giacopo Peri
• Concerto grosso in F major, op. 6, no. 2, first movement / Arcangelo Corelli
• Well-tempered clavier, book I, Prelude and fugue in C♯ minor / J.S. Bach
• "Goldberg" variations, BWV 988 (excerpts) / J.S. Bach
• Piano sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20, first movement (excerpt) / Joseph Haydn
• Symphony no. 3, first movement (excerpt) / Ludwig van Beethoven
• Caprices, op. 1, no. 24 / Niccolò Paganini
• Etudes d'exécution transcendante, no. 1: Preludio / Franz Liszt
• Symphony no. 9 in E minor, Largo / Antonín Dvořák
• St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy
• St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy.
• PART ONE: The Medieval Era
• 1. Plainchant and Secular Monophony
• 2. Polyphony to 1300
• 3. Music in the 14th Century
• PART TWO: The Renaissance
• 4. The Emergence of Renaissance Style
• 5. The Genres of Renaissance Music. 1420-1520
• 6. Music in the 16th Century
• PART THREE: The Baroque Era
• 7. The New Practice
• 8. Vocal Music, 1600-1650
• 9. Vocal Music, 1650-1750
• 10. Instrumental Music, 1600-1750
• PART FOUR: The Classical Era
• 11. The Art of the Natural
• 12. Instrumental Music in the Classical Era
• 13. Vocal Music in the Classical Era
• PART FIVE: The 19th Century
• 14. The Age of the Tone Poet
• 15. Orchestral Music, 1800-1850
• 16. Piano Music, Chamber Music, Song
• 17. Dramatic and Sacred Music
• 18. Orchestral Music, 1850-1900
• PART SIX: The 20th Century
• 19. The Growth of Pluralism
• 20. The Search for New Sounds, 1890-1945
• 21. Beyond Tonality
• 22. The Tonal Tradition
• 23. New Currents after 1945.

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ISBN

• 0131931040 ((main textbooks))
• 9780131931046 ((main textbooks))
• 9780205645312
• 0205645313

Publisher no.

NSP116041

LCCN

2004043171

OCLC

• 1058327393
• 56600016

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