751, xlviii pages 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-751)
The arts in history -- The conjectural beginnings : -- The origins of art [what is it? Beginnings of music -- rhythm ; melody ; use of instruments] -- Music in the life of the Near East [Sumerians, Sumer, Egypt, Assyrians, Hebrews, Babylonians] -- The music of the Hellenic Age [Minoans, Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Greece, Lyric age, Golden age] -- Roman music [Rome, Italy] -- Music in the early church [Christian, Jesus] -- Historical past : -- Monodic music of a thousand years -- Music in the Church [mystical power of Gregorian Chant, plainsong, hymns, art and ritual] -- Music outside the church [folk music, sacred folk music] -- The Music of the Middle Ages [medieval] -- Romanesque Music -- Early Gothic music -- Music of chivalry [troubadours, dance songs of the time] -- A Transitional period [rise of artistic personalities, casuistry of the false bass, Machaut, Ars Nova, Burgundian masters, Josquin des Pres -- universal expression] -- The Renaissance :
Causes and effects -- Renaissance in Italy [Folengo, Il coregiano, madrigal, sacred music] -- In France and the Netherlands [religious music, French reformation, instrumental music and dances] -- In Spain [popular lute, Cabezon, Morales and Victoria] -- In England [Elizabethan, English madrigals, ecclesiastical, keyboard instruments, lute songs] -- In Germany [lider, Paumann, Luther as a musician, artistry of the chorale] -- Mannerism, a transitional period [manneristic tendencies, Gesualdo the Mannerist] -- The Overture to the Baroque : -- General backround of the Baroque Period -- The Birth and development of Opera and Oratorio -- Baroque Instrumental muscia [concerto style] -- The Middle Baroque -- The High Baroque [Castrato, Universal Neapolitan Style, Rococo, Couperin le Grand, Opera buffa, German Kuhnau, Guild music, Telemann, Domenico Scarlatti, Galuppi] -- And there were Giants in Those Days : -- The blend that is Bach -- The Secular Works of Bach [Johann Sebastian] -- Handel the Magnificent [George Frideric] -- The Musical developments of the Eighteenth Century : -- General background [Englightenment, Gluck, Metastasio, Piccinnni, Mannheimers, ordhestral style] -- Franz Josef Haydn -- In Search of Mozart [Wolfgang Amadeus] -- An Operatic Apex [Opera Seeria, Opera Buffa, Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, The German Operas]
Music becomes more personal : -- Romantic Ideal in Art [classic vs romantic, literature and music] -- Beethoven the liberator [Ludwig van, Eroica symphony, difficult quartets] -- The Early Romantic Composers and their Problems : -- Schubert, the Lyric poet -- Mendelssohn and Schumann -- Berlioz the unpredictable -- Choping and piano music -- Liszt, a soul divided against itself -- Wagner -- His predecessors and contemporaries in opera -- Nineteenth century Italian opera -- Opera outside Italy -- Richard Wagner and the music drama -- Other operatic developments in Italy, France and Germany -- The Later Romantics : -- Johannes the Great -- Hugo Wolf and Styles in Song -- Richard Strauss -- Cesar Franck and Musical Mysticism -- The Viennese Twins -- Bruckner and Mahler -- A lone Northerner -- Sibelius -- The Twighlight of the Romantics -- Internationalism in Music : -- A general movement -- The Russians -- The Czechs -- The Poles -- The Scandinavians -- The Spaniards -- The Hungarians and the Rumanians -- The English Tradition -- Is there a German Nationalism? -- The Modern Revolt : -- The Rise of Realism -- Debussy and Impressionism -- Ravel -- Delius, the end of a chapter -- The Aftermath
The Problematic Present : -- The Twentieth Century : -- The Aesthetics of Present Day Art [difficulty of hearing atonally] -- The impact of Stravinsky -- Schonberg and his style -- Diverse followers -- In the Native Grain [American fold tradition, popular music, jazz, film music]
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