A History of Western Music

Table of contents

• A History of Western Music *
• A History of Western Music *
• Contents v
• Maps viii
• Color Plates ix
• Preface to the Sixth Edition xi
• Abbreviations xv
• A History of Western Music *
• Chapter 1 - Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome i
• Chapter 2 - Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages 31
• Chapter 3 - The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century 70
• Chapter 4 - French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century 96
• Chapter 5 - England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century 123
• Chapter 6 - The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries 144
• Chapter 7 - New Currents in the Sixteenth Century 177
• Chapter 8 - Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation 224
• Chapter 9 - Music of the Early Baroque Period 251
• Chapter 10 - Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century 309
• Chapter 11 - Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period 345
• Chapter 12 - Music in the Early Eighteenth Century 373
• Chapter 13 - Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period 420
• Chapter 14 - The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart 465
• Chapter 15 - Ludwig Van Beethoven 513
• Chapter 16 - Romanticism and Nineteenth‐ Century Orchestral Music 542
• Chapter 17 - Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century 571
• Chapter 18 - Opera And, Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century 603
• Chapter 19 - European Music from the I870s to World War I 631
• Chapter 20 - The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century 676
• Chapter 21 - Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe 713
• Chapter 22 - The American Twentieth Century 740
• Glossary 789
• Credits 807
• Index 811

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