Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Part I - Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music (up to C. 1525) xi
• Preface xiii
• I - Music in the Early Church: Christian Chant 1
• 2 - Music in the Early Church: The Beginnings of Part-Music 40
• 3 - Music Outside the Church: Solo Song and Dance Music 74
• 4 The All-Embracing Style of The Thirteenth Century 95
• 5 - The New Art 121
• 6 - Music in the Early Renaissance 185
• Part II - Late Renaissance and Baroque Music (c. 1525--C. 1750) 237
• 2 - The Late Renaissance: Sacred Music-Instrumental Music 297
• 3 - The Baroque: Music for the Stage--I 366
• 4 - The Baroque: Music for the Stage-Ii 438
• 5 - The Baroque: Music in Church, Hall and Home 498

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Part I - Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music (up to C. 1525) xi
• Preface xiii
• I - Music in the Early Church: Christian Chant 1
• 2 - Music in the Early Church: The Beginnings of Part-Music 40
• 3 - Music Outside the Church: Solo Song and Dance Music 74
• 4 The All-Embracing Style of The Thirteenth Century 95
• 5 - The New Art 121
• 6 - Music in the Early Renaissance 185
• Part II - Late Renaissance and Baroque Music (c. 1525--C. 1750) 237
• 2 - The Late Renaissance: Sacred Music-Instrumental Music 297
• 3 - The Baroque: Music for the Stage--I 366
• 4 - The Baroque: Music for the Stage-Ii 438
• 5 - The Baroque: Music in Church, Hall and Home 498
• 6 - The Baroque: Instrumental Music 531
• Part III - The Sonata Principle (from C. 1750) 571
• Preface 573
• I - The Birth of Sonata 581
• 2 - Haydn 594
• 3 - Mozart: Music for Home and Church 612
• 4 - Beethoven 631
• 5 - Schubert 659
• 6 - Bruckner, Brahms, and Mahler 683
• I - The Birth of a New Kind of Opera 711
• 2 - Wagner 743
• 3 - Berlioz 759
• 4 - Verdi And Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera 782
• Part IV - Romanticism and the 20th Century (from 1800) 803
• I - Chopin, Schumann, and Mendelssohn 805
• 2 - Liszt and Romantic Virtuosity 835
• 3 - The Russian Nationalists 851
• 4 - The Nationalists of Central Europe 876
• 5 - The Decline of Nationalism 893
• I - Two Song-Writers 901
• 3 - Delius, Sibelius, and Nature 923
• 4 - Debussy and Ravel 935
• 5 - Two Traditionalists: FaurÉ and Strauss 952
• 6 - Welgar and Vaughan Williams 966
• 7 - Schoenberg and Hindemith 982
• 8 - Stravinsky and BartÓk 1002
• 9 - Europe Today 1020
• 10 - Music in a New-Found Land 1048
• Recommended Books 1101
• Recommended Music 1105
• Index of Music Examples 1125
• General Index 1135