The Book of Musical Knowledge: The History, Technique, and Appreciation of Music, Together with Lives of the Great Composers, for Music-Lovers, Students and Teachers

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Illustrations xi
• Part I - The Evolution of Music 1
• Part I the Evolution of Music 2
• I - Primitive and Savage Music 3
• II - Greece and Rome 13
• III - Early Christian Music 23
• IV - The Minstrel Knights 31
• V - The Schools of Counterpoint 42
• VI - The Harmonic Style 58
• Part II - The Great Composers 67
• Part II the Great Composers 68
• VII - Bach 69
• VIII - Handel 77
• IX - Gluck 85
• X - Haydn 91
• XI - Mozart 98
• XII - Beethoven 108
• XIII - Schubert 120
• XIV - Weber and Romanticism 128
• XV - Mendelssohn 135
• XVI - Schumman 143
• XVII - Chopin 151
• XVIII - Italian Opera 158
• XIX - Cherubini and French Opera 170
• XX - Berlioz and Other Frenchmen 179
• XXI - Liszt and His Circle 188
• Part III - Musical Form 307
• XXXI - Melody and Appreciation 309
• XXXII - Figures and Phrases 317
• XXXIII - The Song-Forms 324
• XXXIV - The Rondos 331
• XXXV - The Sonata-Allegro Form 336
• XXXVI - Other Sonata Movements 341
• XXXVII - The Orchestral Forms 345
• XXXVIII Dances and Piano Styles - Dances and Piano Styles 351
• XXXIX - The Vocal Forms 360
• XL - The Contrapuntal Forms 366
• Part IV - The Instruments 376
• XLI - The Piano and Its Predecessors 377
• XLII - The Organ 384
• XLIII - The Voice 391
• XLIV - The Violin 398
• XLV - Other Bowed Instruments *
• XLVI - Plucked-String Instruments 413
• XLVII - Flute and Piccolo 420
• XLVIII - Oboe and English Horn *
• XLIX - The Bassoons 433
• L the Clarinets 438
• Li Horns, Trumpets, and Cornets 444
• Lii Trombones and Tubas 450
• Liii Instruments of Percussion 456
• Part V - Special Topics 463
• LIV - Some Famous Pianists 465
• LV - Some Famous Singers 474
• LVI - Violinists and Violin Music 483
• LVII - Orchestration 491
• LVIII - Conducting 496
• Lix Acoustics 503
• LX - How to Read Music 515
• LXI - Modern Music 538
• Appendix 569
• Index 581
• Index to Supplementary Chapter 606

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