Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition
ISBN: 9780195379884 | 0195379888
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/12/2009
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Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition, Third Edition, explores the conceptual frameworks that have shaped musical development from antiquity to the present. In a lively narrative that prompts readers to think both critically and creatively, Douglass Seaton uses historical documents from thinkers, artists, and musicians to add rich detail to the compelling story of Western music. This brief and accessible narrative of music history features numerous works of art, literature, and music that immerse the reader in the historical and int... MORE
| Music In Classical Antiquity | |
| Music in the Life and Philosophy of Ancient Greece | |
| Music and the Doctrine of Ethos | |
| Characteristics of Music | |
| Greek Music Theory | |
| Music in Ancient Rome | |
| The Early Christian Period | |
| The Growth of the Christian Church and Its Music | |
| The Jewish Heritage | |
| The Diversification of Prac... MORE | |
| The Eastern Influence | |
| Local European Practices | |
| The Establishment Of A Catholic Tradition | |
| The Political-Cultural Situation at the Beginning of the Ninth Century | |
| The Roman Liturgy | |
| The Divine Office | |
| Mass | |
| Aesthetic Considerations Regarding the Chant | |
| The Musical Style of the Chant | |
| The Music Theory of the Chant | |
| Later Developments in the Liturgical Chant | |
| The Trope | |
| Liturgical Drama | |
| Medieval Secular Song And Instrumental Music | |
| Secular Music before the Eleventh Century | |
| Latin Songs | |
| Epics and Minstrels | |
| Troubadours and Trouveres | |
| German Court Music | |
| Monophonic Songs in Other Regions | |
| Italy | |
| Spain and Portugal | |
| Britain | |
| Instruments | |
| String Instruments | |
| Wind Instruments | |
| Percussion Instruments | |
| Organs | |
| The Use of Instruments | |
| The Development Of Polyphony | |
| The Significance of Polyphony | |
| Carolingian Polyphony | |
| Romanesque Developments | |
| Free Organum | |
| Rhythmic Independence | |
| Florid Organum and Discant | |
| Gothic Thinking and Style | |
| Notre Dame Polyphony | |
| Rhythmic Order in Organum: Leonin | |
| Perotin | |
| Cadences | |
| The Motet | |
| Late Thirteenth-Century Developments | |
| New Developments in Rhythmic Notation | |
| Hocket | |
| Symbolic Values in Medieval Polyphony | |
| Music In The Fourteenth Century | |
| The Increasing Secularization of Culture | |
| Ars Nova | |
| Isorhythm | |
| The Roman de Fauvel | |
| Form in Secular Song | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | |
| Ars Subtilior | |
| The Italian Trecento | |
| Cadence Patterns in the Fourteenth Century | |
| English Polyphony | |
| Gymel and English Discant | |
| Secular Music: Rota | |
| Humanism And Music | |
| The Rise of a Humanist World View | |
| The Hundred Years' War and English Music on the Continent | |
| John Dunstaple | |
| The New Style on the Continent | |
| Guillaume Du Fay | |
| Gilles Binchois | |
| Polyphonic Cadences | |
| The Idea of a New Music | |
| The Spread Of New Musical Ideas And Practices To 1600 | |
| The Growth of the Renaissance Musical Style in the North . | |
| Johannes Ockeghem | |
| The Next Generation of Franco-Netherlands Composers | |
| Josquin des Prez | |
| The Ascendancy of the Northern Style | |
| Music for Social Use | |
| Regional Variations of the Cosmopolitan Style in Secular Music | |
| The French Chanson | |
| English Music | |
| German Music | |
| Spanish Repertoires | |
| The Italian Frottola and Madrigal | |
| The Poetic Model for Musical Expression | |
| Instrumental Music In The Sixteenth Century | |
| The Place of Instruments | |
| Instruments and their Combinations | |
| Consorts | |
| Broken Consorts | |
| Plucked Instruments | |
| Keyboard Instruments | |
| Tablature | |
| Instruments and Vocal Music | |
| Instrumental Adaptations of Vocal Music and Genres | |
| Instrumental Genres | |
| Dances | |
| Variations | |
| Instrumental Pieces in the Style of Improvisations | |
| The Reformation And Music | |
| The Background of the Reformation | |
| The Music of the Lutheran Reformation | |
| The Calvinist Reformation | |
| The Reformation in England | |
| The Counter-Reformation | |
| Palestrina | |
| Tomas Luis de Victoria and Roland de Lassus | |
| Faith, Music, and the Power of Words | |
| The Close Of The Sixteenth Century | |
| Italian Music at the End of the Sixteenth Century | |
| Mannerism | |
| The Italian Style in England | |
| France | |
| The Venetian Style | |
| The Significance of Late Humanist Styles | |
| Rationalism And Its Impact On Music | |
| An Age of Reason | |
| Aesthetic Considerations | |
| The Doctrine of Affections | |
| The Florentine Camerata | |
| Monody and the Basso Continuo | |
| Concertato | |
| Seconda Pratica | |
| Expression of New Ideas in New Styles | |
| New Genres And Styles In The Age Of Rationalism | |
| Three Styles | |
| The Creation of Opera | |
| First Experiments in Opera | |
| Orfeo | |
| Developments in Italian Opera | |
| Stylistic Trends | |
| Vocal Chamber Music | |
| Texture and Form | |
| Sacred Music | |
| The Sacred Concerto | |
| Oratorio | |
| Seventeenth-Century Instrumental Music | |
| The Fantasia | |
| The Sonata | |
| Sets of Variations | |
| Dance Music | |
| Improvisatory Instrumental Music | |
| The Late Seventeenth Century | |
| French Opera in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Historical Context | |
| The Beginnings of French Opera | |
| French Operatic Style | |
| English Music in the Seventeenth Century | |
| The First Stuarts | |
| The Commonwealth | |
| The Restoration | |
| Italian Opera | |
| The Cantata and Other Vocal Chamber Music | |
| German Musical Genres | |
| Keyboard Music | |
| Musical Drama | |
| The Development of Instrumental Forms and Idioms | |
| Style Developments in Instrumental Music | |
| Fugue | |
| The Suite | |
| The Ensemble Sonata | |
| Concerto | |
| The Early Eighteenth Century | |
| The Late Rationalist Period | |
| Opera Seria - Handel and Others | |
| The Intermezzo | |
| Opera in France | |
| Handel and the Oratorio | |
| Germany | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | |
| Bach's Early Career | |
| The Court of Weimar | |
| The Court of Cothen | |
| The City of Leipzig | |
| Bach's Culmination of Stylistic Tradition | |
| New Currents In The Early Eighteenth Century | |
| New Directions in Thinking and Style | |
| The Development of the Tonal System | |
| The Idea of the Galant | |
| In France | |
| Outside of France | |
| French and Italian Operatic Comedy | |
| La Guerre des Bouffons | |
| The empfindsamer Stil | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | |
| Keyboard Instruments | |
| Song | |
| Structure in Early Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music | |
| Developments in Instrumental Music | |
| The Enlightenment And The Classic Style | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| The Classic Outlook | |
| Musicians in Late Eighteenth-Century Society | |
| Contrasting Careers for Classical Musicians: Haydn and Mozart | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
| Comic Opera in the Early Enlightenment | |
| Opera Seria and Opera Reform | |
| Instrumental Genres and the Sonata Plan | |
| The Symphony | |
| The String Quartet | |
| The Keyboard Sonata | |
| The Concerto | |
| The Divertimento | |
| The Sonata Form and Its Variants | |
| Harmonic Plan | |
| Thematic Plan | |
| Outline of Sonata Form | |
| Some Terminological Clarification | |
| Applications of the Sonata Procedure | |
| Expression and Function | |
| The End Of The Eighteenth Century | |
| The Position of Haydn and Mozart | |
| Chamber Music | |
| Symphony | |
| Concerto | |
| Mozart's Mature Operas | |
| Opera Seria | |
| Singspiel | |
| Collaboration with Da Ponte | |
| A Finale in the Popular Theater | |
| A New Model for Expression | |
| The Enlightenment Beethoven | |
| Beethoven's Early Years in Bonn | |
| Beethoven's First Decade in Vienna | |
| The Music of Beethoven's First Vienna Period | |
| The American Colonies and the early United States | |
| The Rise Of The Romantic Movement | |
| Philosophical Roots of Romantic Thought | |
| Politics, Economics, and Social Change | |
| The Concept of Organic Unity | |
| Romantic Art | |
| Themes in Romantic Art | |
| Techniques of Romantic Art | |
| The Romantic Movement in the History of Musical Style | |
| Beethoven from 1802 | |
| Beethoven and the Artist as Hero | |
| Beethoven's Heroic Style | |
| Beethoven's Sketchbooks | |
| Beethoven's Personal Life in His Middle Period | |
| Beethoven's Last Period | |
| Beethoven's Influence on Nineteenth-Century Music | |
| The Romantic Lied | |
| Franz Schubert | |
| Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera | |
| Gioacchino Rossini | |
| Opera in France | |
| German Romantic Opera | |
| The Social Context for Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Developments In Romanticism To 1850 | |
| The Context for Romanticism to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century | |
| Composers' Lifestyles | |
| Composers' Literary and Artistic Activities | |
| Romantic Lyricism in Italian Opera | |
| Style | |
| Performance Practice | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | |
| French Grand Opera | |
| The Cult of Virtuosity | |
| Some ""Serious"" Performers | |
| Lyricism and Virtuosity - Chopin | |
| Salons and Drawing Rooms | |
| Instrumental Genres in Romantic Music | |
| Piano Music | |
| Orchestral Music | |
| Romantic Musical Style | |
| Expansion of Sound Vocabulary | |
| Romantic Harmony | |
| Form in Romantic Music | |
| Recognition of the Musical Heritage | |
| The Midpoint of the Nineteenth Century | |
| The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century | |
| The New German School | |
| The Artwork of the Future | |
| Wagner's Music Dramas | |
| Wagner's Librettos | |
| Wagner's Musical Style | |
| Wagner in Social and Political History | |
| Late Romanticism | |
| Austria | |
| France | |
| Italy | |
| Influences of the New German Style | |
| Progressives in Vienna | |
| Richard Strauss | |
| Alexander Skryabin | |
| Realism in Late Nineteenth-Century Opera | |
| Exoticism | |
| Late Nineteenth-Century National Styles | |
| Bohemia | |
| Russia | |
| Nationalism in Other Countries | |
| The Situation at the End of the Nineteenth Century | |
| The Arrival Of The Twentieth Century | |
| A Turning Point in Artistic Ideas and Styles | |
| Impressionism | |
| Claude Debussy | |
| Diffusion and Limits of Impression | |
| The Aesthetics of Ugliness | |
| Primitivism | |
| Expressionism | |
| Arnold Schoenberg | |
| Alban Berg | |
| Advantages and Problems in Atonal Expressionism | |
| An American Original: Charles Ives | |
| Modernism And The Period Between The World Wars | |
| Modernism | |
| A Period of Readjustment | |
| The Twelve-Tone Method of Composition | |
| Schoenberg after 1920 | |
| Adaptations of the Twelve-Tone Method | |
| Toward Serialism | |
| Artistic Objectivity | |
| Neoclassicism | |
| France | |
| Stravinsky's Neoclassic Music and Thought | |
| Germany | |
| New Tonal Theory | |
| The Influence of Regional Musics | |
| The Music of Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union | |
| The United States | |
| Jazz | |
| Incorporating Jazz into Traditional Genres | |
| The Avant-Garde | |
| American Experimentalists | |
| In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century | |
| History and Contemporary Music | |
| Composers in Late-Twentieth-Century Society | |
| Total Control | |
| The Exploration of New Timbres: Extended Techniques | |
| Electronic Music | |
| Computers | |
| The Performer | |
| Indeterminacy | |
| Indeterminacy, Performers, and Computers | |
| Aesthetic Issues | |
| Postmodernism | |
| Postmodernism in Music | |
| Postmodern Composer and Listener | |
| Diversity in Styles Based on the Western Tradition | |
| Juxtapositions and Fusions with Non-Western Musics | |
| Minimalism | |
| Mixed-Media and Performance-Oriented Music | |
| Jazz and Popular Music | |
| Jazz | |
| Rock Music | |
| The Situation at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century | |
| Appendix: Timeline | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Douglass Seaton is Warren D. Allen Professor of Music at The Florida State University.
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