A History of Music in Western Culture
ISBN: 9780205645312 | 0205645313
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 12/28/2008
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A History of Music in Western Culture3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus squarely on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions. Once familiar with a representative body of music, students can better grasp the evolution of musical style and music's changing uses within the Western tradition. Even more importantly, they will have a sound basis from which to explore other... MORE
| Preface | |
| Prologue: Antiquity Music in the Biblical World Ancient | |
| Greece Music in Ancient Greek Society | |
| Greek Musical Theory Music in the Roman Empire | |
| The Musical Legacies of Antiquity Music and the Cosmos Music and the Soul Music and the State | |
| Theory versus Practice Vocal versus | |
| Instrumental Music | |
| Discussion | |
| Questions | ... MORE |
| The Medieval Era Prelude to Part I | |
| Plainchant and Secular Monophony | |
| The Emergence of Plainchant | |
| The Elements of Plainchant Liturgical Function Relationship of Words and Music Mode Melodic Structure Rhythm | |
| The Expansion of Plainchant Secular Monophony Songs in Latin France | |
| The Iberian Peninsula Germany | |
| Polyphony to 1300 Orgunum Innovations in Organum Notre Dame Organum Clausula Motet Conductus | |
| Mensural Notation Franconian Notation | |
| Petronian Notation | |
| Music in the 14th Century France: The Ars Nova Le Roman de Fauvel Polyphonic Settings of the Mass Ordinary Secular Song | |
| The Ars subtilior at the End of the 14th Century Italy: The Trecento England Instrumental Music | |
| Discussion | |
| Questions | |
| The Renaissance Prelude to Part II | |
| Renaissance Humanism | |
| The Protestant Reformation Renaissance | |
| Painting and Sculpture Music in Renaissance Society | |
| The Emergence of Renaissance Style | |
| Consonance and Dissonance: Trusting the Ear | |
| Sonority: The Contenance Angloise Fauxbourdon and Faburden New Sonority | |
| Old Structure: Du Fayrsquo;s Nuper rosarum flores Josquinrsquo;s Ave Maria | |
| Virgo Serena and The Style of the Renaissance Treatment of Text Texture | |
| Cadential Structure Mode Melody Rhythm Harmony | |
| The Genres of Renaissance Music, 1420-1520 Sacred Vocal Music | |
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