A Musical Companion: A Guide to the Understanding and Enjoyment of Music

Table of contents

• Music *
• Title Page i
• Acknowledgment iii
• Introductory Note v
• Contents ix
• Book I - The ABC of Music 1
• Musical Notation 3
• The Fundamentals of Music 19
• Form 27
• The Orchestra and Other Instruments 39
• Book II - The Orchestra and Orchestral Music 53
• The Rise of the Orchestra 55
• The Expansion of the Orchestra 78
• The Orchestra as Instrument 93
• Orchestral Music; "Absolute" Music and the Symphonists 130
• Orchestral Music of Mantkinds 174
• Book III - Opera 189
• How Opera Arose 191
• The Eighteenth Century 207
• From Mozart to Wagner 223
• From Verdi to the Present Day 241
• Book IV - The Human Voice 259
• By Way of Introduction 261
• The Polyphonic Period 268
• English Song 284
• Folk-Song 294
• Oratorio and Other Choral Music 301
• European Song in the Nineteenth Century 314
• Vocal Music in the Twentieth Century 330
• Book V - Chamber Music 341
• Before Beethoven 343
• From Beethoven to Brahms 364
• National Schools 382
• Britain 405
• Modernism 421
• Book VI - The Solo Instrument 431
• Keyboard Instruments 433
• Pianoforte and Violin Sonatas and Duets 468
• The Violin in Solo and Concerto 477
• The Violoncello and the Viola 490
• Glossary and Index 501
• A Short Glossary of Musical Terms 503
• Index 517
• A Note on the Type In Which This Book is Set 552

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