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A History of Western Music

by: Grout, Donald J.; Palisca, Claude V.

A History of Western Music

by: Grout, Donald J.; Palisca, Claude V.

ISBN 13:
9780393975277
ISBN 10:
0393975274
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 03/01/2001
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.

Maps

viii

Color Plates

Preface to the Sixth Edition

Abbreviations

Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome

(30)

The Greek and Roman Heritage

(1)

Timeline: Greece and Rome

(1)

Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought

(6)

The Greek Musical System

(1)

Greek Music Theory in Depth

(7)

Music in Ancient Rome

(2)

The Early Christian Church

(3)

Byzantine Music in Depth

(2)

Timeline: The Early Christian Church

(7)

Bibliography

(2)

Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages

(39)

Roman Chant and Liturgy

(7)

Classes, Forms, and Types of Chant

(8)

Later Developments of the Chant

(4)

Medieval Music Theory and Practice

(7)

Nonliturgical and Secular Monody

(7)

Medieval Instrumental Music and Instruments

(2)

Bibliography

(4)

The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century

(26)

Historical Background of Early Polyphony

(1)

Early Organum

(2)

Florid Organum

(3)

Notre Dame Organum

(2)

Timeline: Early Polyphony

(6)

Polyphonic Conductus

(1)

The Motet

(7)

Thirteenth-Century Notation in Depth

(1)

Summary

(1)

Bibliography

(3)

French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century

(27)

General Background

(1)

Timeline: Fourteenth-Century France and Italy

(1)

The Ars Nova in France

(8)

Italian Trecento Music

106

(5)

French Music of the Late Fourteenth Century

111

(2)

Musica Ficta

113

(3)

Fourteenth-Century Notation in Depth

116

(2)

Instruments

118

(2)

Summary

120

(1)

Bibliography

121

(2)

England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century

123

(21)

English Music

123

(6)

Music in the Burgundian Lands

129

(2)

Timeline: The Fifteenth Century

131

(10)

Bibliography

141

(3)

The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries

144

(33)

General Characteristics

144

(4)

Timeline: The Sixteenth Century

148

(6)

Northern Composers and Their Music

154

(10)

Josquin Des Prez

164

(6)

Some Contemporaries of Obrecht and Josquin

170

(2)

Summary

172

(1)

Bibliography

172

(5)

New Currents in the Sixteenth Century

177

(47)

The Franco-Flemish Generation (1520-50)

177

(4)

The Rise of National Styles

181

(2)

The Italian Madrigal

183

(11)

Secular Song outside Italy

194

(11)

Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth Century

205

(14)

Bibliography

219

(5)

Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation

224

(27)

The Music of the Reformation in Germany

224

(4)

Reformation Church Music outside Germany

228

(4)

Timeline: Events Affecting English Church Music, 1530-1660

232

(2)

The Counter-Reformation

234

(14)

Summary

248

(1)

Bibliography

248

(3)

Music of the Early Baroque Period

251

(58)

General Characteristics

251

(9)

Early Opera

260

(4)

Timeline: Early Baroque

264

(14)

Vocal Chamber Music

278

(7)

Venice

285

(2)

Genres of Catholic Church Music

287

(3)

Lutheran Church Music

290

(4)

Instrumental Music

294

(10)

Bibliography

304

(5)

Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century

309

(36)

Opera

309

(15)

Vocal Chamber Music

324

(3)

Church Music

327

(1)

Timeline: The Later Seventeenth Century

328

(13)

Bibliography

341

(4)

Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period

345

(28)

Organ Music

345

(6)

Harpsichord and Clavichord Music

351

(5)

Ensemble Music

356

(13)

Bibliography

369

(4)

Music in the Early Eighteenth Century

373

(47)

Antonio Vivaldi

375

(5)

Timeline: The Early Eighteenth Century

380

(1)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

380

(6)

Johann Sebastian Bach

386

(1)

Bach's Instrumental Music

387

(9)

Bach's Vocal Music

396

(9)

George Frideric Handel

405

(12)

Bibliography

417

(3)

Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period

420

(45)

The Enlightenment

420

(1)

Timeline: The Enlightenment and the Early Classic Period

421

(9)

Musical Rhetoric in Depth

430

(2)

Opera

432

(8)

Comic Opera

440

(5)

Beginnings of Opera Reform

445

(2)

Song and Church Music

447

(3)

Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto

450

(10)

Summary

460

(1)

Bibliography

460

(5)

The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart

465

(48)

Franz Joseph Haydn

465

(3)

Haydn's Instrumental Music

468

(17)

Haydn's Vocal Works

485

(3)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

488

(7)

Mozart's Vienna Years

495

(14)

Epilogue

509

(1)

Bibliography

509

(4)

Ludwig van Beethoven

513

(29)

The Composer and His Music

513

(3)

First Period

516

(6)

Second Period

522

(11)

Third Period

533

(6)

Bibliography

539

(3)

Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music

542

(29)

Romanticism

542

(2)

Timeline: Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century

544

(1)

Orchestral Music

545

(21)

Bibliography

566

(5)

Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century

571

(32)

The Piano

571

(1)

Music for Piano

572

(15)

Chamber Music

587

(6)

The Lied

593

(5)

Choral Music

598

(4)

Bibliography

602

(1)

Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century

603

(28)

Italy

603

(5)

France

608

(6)

Giuseppe Verdi

614

(4)

Germany

618

(3)

Richard Wagner and the Music Drama

621

(7)

Bibliogrphy

628

(3)

European Music from the 1870s to World War I

631

(45)

The German Tradition

631

(13)

National Trends

644

(16)

New Currents in France

660

(10)

Italian Opera

670

(1)

Bibliography

671

(5)

The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century

676

(37)

Introduction

676

(3)

Timeline: Early Twentieth Century

679

(1)

Ethnic Contexts

680

(4)

The Soviet Orbit

684

(5)

England

689

(4)

Germany

693

(6)

Latin America

699

(1)

Neo-Classicism in France

699

(3)

Stravinsky

702

(8)

Bibliography

710

(3)

Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe

713

(27)

Schoenberg and His Followers

713

(12)

After Webern

725

(4)

Recent Developments

729

(9)

Bibliography

738

(2)

The American Twentieth Century

740

(49)

The Historical Background

741

(7)

Vernacular Music

748

(6)

Foundations for an American Art Music

754

(1)

Timeline: World War II and After

755

(9)

Since 1945

764

(20)

Conclusions

784

(1)

Bibliography

785

(4)

Glossary

789

(18)

Credits

807

(4)

Index

811

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0393975274

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