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Concise History of Western Music

by: Hanning, Barbara Russano

Concise History of Western Music

by: Hanning, Barbara Russano

ISBN 13:
9780393928037
ISBN 10:
0393928039
Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/27/2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The Third Edition has been meticulously revised and reorganized to provide a more streamlined narrative that emphasizes a core repertory, social and historical context, and performance practice. This comprehensive revision features outstanding new pedagogy and multimedia resources.

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Preface to the Third Edition

xix

PART ONE The Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Introduction

(15)

Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome

(12)

Prelude

(1)

Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought

(3)

Roman Music, 200B.C.E.--500 C.E.

(1)

The Early Christian Church: Musical Thought

(2)

The Early Christian Church: Musical Practice

(3)

Postlude

(2)

Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages

(24)

Prelude

(1)

Western Christian Chant and Liturgy

(4)

Genres and Forms of Chant

(9)

Medieval Music Theory and Practice

(2)

Medieval Song

(7)

Postlude

(1)

Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century

(17)

Prelude

(2)

Early Organum

(2)

Notre Dame Polyphony

(6)

The Motet

(3)

The Polyphonic Conductus

(2)

English Polyphony

(1)

Postlude

(1)

French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century

(27)

Prelude

(1)

The Ars nova in France

(8)

Italian Trecento Music

(4)

The Arssubtilior

(1)

Postlude

(4)

PART TWO The Age of the Renaissance

Introduction

(9)

England, France, and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style

(14)

Prelude

(2)

English Music and Its Influence

100

(2)

Music in Burgundian Lands

102

(8)

Postlude

110

(2)

Music of the Low Countries

112

(16)

Prelude

112

(2)

The Musical Culture of the Renaissance

114

(3)

Northern Composers: The Generation after Du Fay

117

(4)

The Next Generation: Josquin and His Contemporaries

121

(5)

Postlude

126

(2)

Secular Song and the Rise of National Styles in the Sixteenth Century

128

(18)

Prelude

128

(1)

The Rise of National Styles: Italy

129

(1)

The Italian Madrigal

130

(7)

The Rise of National Styles: Secular Song outside Italy

137

(4)

The Rise of Instrumental Music

141

(3)

Postlude

144

(2)

Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation

146

(31)

Prelude

146

(1)

The Music of the Reformation in Germany

147

(2)

Reformation Church Music outside Germany

149

(2)

The Counter-Reformation

151

(10)

Postlude

161

(2)

PART THREE The Seventeenth Century

Introduction

163

(14)

Vocal Music of the Early Baroque

177

(29)

Prelude

177

(1)

General Characteristics of Baroque Music

178

(5)

Early Opera

183

(11)

Vocal Chamber Music

194

(5)

Catholic Sacred Music

199

(3)

Lutheran Church Music

202

(3)

Postlude

205

(1)

Instrumental Music Comes of Age

206

(16)

Prelude

206

(1)

Types of Instrumental Music

207

(1)

Dance Music

207

(3)

Variations

210

(4)

Abstract Instrumental Works

214

(6)

Postlude

220

(2)

Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century

222

(22)

Prelude

222

(1)

Italy

222

(8)

France

230

(5)

England

235

(5)

Germany

240

(2)

Postlude

242

(2)

Instrumental Music in the Late Seventeenth Century

244

(35)

Prelude

244

(1)

Music for Organ

245

(3)

Music for Harpsichord

248

(5)

Ensemble Music

253

(12)

Postlude

265

(2)

PART FOUR The Eighteenth Century

Introduction

267

(12)

Music in the Early Eighteenth Century

279

(36)

Prelude

279

(1)

Italy: Antonio Vivaldi

279

(6)

France: Couperin and Rameau

285

(5)

Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach

290

(15)

England: George Frideric Handel

305

(8)

Postlude

313

(2)

The Early Classical Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Early and Mid-Eighteenth Century

315

(24)

Prelude

315

(1)

General Characteristics of the New Style

316

(3)

Opera buffa

319

(3)

Opera seria

322

(3)

Opera Reform

325

(4)

Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto

329

(4)

The Empfindsamer Style

333

(5)

Postlude

338

(1)

The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart

339

(35)

Prelude

339

(2)

(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

341

(1)

Haydn's Instrumental Music

342

(9)

Haydn's Vocal Works

351

(4)

WolfgangAmadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

355

(1)

Mozart's Salzburg Years

355

(2)

Mozart's Vienna Years

357

(15)

Postlude

372

(2)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

374

(36)

Prelude

374

(1)

First Period

375

(4)

Second Period

379

(9)

Third Period

388

(7)

Postlude

395

(2)

PART FIVE The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Romanticism

Introduction

397

(13)

The Early Romantics

410

(28)

Prelude

410

(2)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

412

(8)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

420

(4)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

424

(5)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

429

(3)

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)

432

(3)

Postlude

435

(3)

The Later Romantics

438

(24)

Prelude

438

(1)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

439

(5)

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

444

(3)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

447

(6)

Piotr ll'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

453

(4)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

457

(2)

Postlude

459

(3)

Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century

462

(31)

Prelude

462

(2)

French Grand (and Not So Grand) Opera

464

(5)

Italian Opera

469

(11)

German Romantic Opera

480

(9)

Church Music

489

(3)

Postlude

492

(1)

The Final Bloom of Romanticism: European Music at the End of the Nineteenth Century

493

(43)

Prelude

493

(1)

The Austro-German Tradition

494

(10)

National Trends

504

(9)

New Currents in France and Italy

513

(5)

Postlude: The Beethoven Legacy

518

(3)

PART SIX The Twentieth Century and Today

Introduction

521

(15)

The European Mainstream in the Early Twentieth Century

536

(25)

Prelude

536

(1)

The First Modern Generation

536

(10)

Tonal and Post-Tonal Music

546

(13)

Postlude

559

(2)

Music, Politics, and the People in the European Twentieth Century

561

(33)

Prelude

561

(1)

The Avant-Garde

562

(2)

France

564

(2)

Igor Stravinsky

566

(11)

Bela Bartok

577

(6)

Germany

583

(4)

The Soviet Union

587

(5)

Postlude

592

(2)

Music in America

594

(36)

Prelude

594

(1)

A Backward Glance: Music in the North American Colonies

594

(2)

Diverging Trends in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America

596

(9)

The Classical Tradition through Mid-Century

605

(8)

Vernacular Styles

613

(15)

Postlude

628

(2)

The Changing World of Music since 1945

630

Prelude

630

(1)

Heirs to the Classical Tradition

630

(6)

Serial and Nonserial Complexity

636

(2)

New Sounds and Textures

638

(8)

The Avant-Garde

646

(12)

The New Accessibility and Other Trends

658

(8)

Postlude

666

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