A History Of Western Music

Sinopse

History and criticism of western music with chronologies and bibliographies following each chapter

Includes bibliographical references and index

The state of music at the end of the ancient world — Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages — The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century — French and Italian music of the fourteenth century — Medieval to Renaissance : music of England and Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century — The age of the Renaissance : Ockeghem to Josquin — New currents in the sixteenth century — Church music in the late Renaissance — Music of the early Baroque period — Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century — Instrumental music in the late Baroque period — The early eighteenth century — Sources of the classic style : the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century — The late eighteenth century — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) — The nineteenth century : Romanticism, vocal music — The nineteenth century : instrumental music — The nineteenth century : opera and music drama — The end of an era — The Twentieth century