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Contents
Introduction 9
I THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 15
The Nature and Purpose of Sixteenth-century Music; 'The
Westron Wynde' Mass by John Taverner; Missa Papae
Marcelli and Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Pales-
trina; 'Penitential Psalms' and Motets by Orlandus Lassus;
the three Masses of William Byrd; Motets by Tomás Luis
de Victoria, Jacob Handl, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Peter
Philips; The Triumphs of Oriana.
II THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 55
New Styles; Giacomo Carissimi--Oratorios; Claudio
Monteverdi--Madrigals, Masses and Vespers; Heinrich
Schütz; other German composers; Dietrich Buxtehude;
Michel Richard de Lalande, Dixit Dominus; Henry Purcell.
III THE PERIOD OF BACH AND HANDEL 88
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel; the con-
ditions of choral composition; the cantatas; Christmas
Oratorio; Messiah; other oratorios; the Passion settings of
Handel and Bach; Mass in B Minor; Magnificat; contem-
poraries of Bach and Handel.
IV THE PERIOD OF HAYDN AND MOZART 156
Local conditions in Austria; Missa brevis (K.192); 'Corona-
tion' Mass; 'Pater Dominicus' Mass; Vesperae; early Masses
of Haydn; late Masses of Haydn; miscellaneous works of
Haydn; Requiem--Mozart; The Creation and The Seasons.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Choral Tradition: An Historical and Analytical Survey from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Contributors: Percy M. Young - author. Publisher: W. W. Norton. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1962. Page Number: 7.
    
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