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Tables of Contents for A History of Western Music
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Maps
viii
Color Plates
ix
Preface to the Sixth Edition
xi
Abbreviations
xv
Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome
1
30
The Greek and Roman Heritage
1
1
Timeline: Greece and Rome
2
1
Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought
2
6
The Greek Musical System
8
1
Greek Music Theory in Depth
8
7
Music in Ancient Rome
15
2
The Early Christian Church
17
3
Byzantine Music in Depth
20
2
Timeline: The Early Christian Church
22
7
Bibliography
29
2
Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages
31
39
Roman Chant and Liturgy
31
7
Classes, Forms, and Types of Chant
38
8
Later Developments of the Chant
46
4
Medieval Music Theory and Practice
50
7
Nonliturgical and Secular Monody
57
7
Medieval Instrumental Music and Instruments
64
2
Bibliography
66
4
The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century
70
26
Historical Background of Early Polyphony
70
1
Early Organum
71
2
Florid Organum
73
3
Notre Dame Organum
76
2
Timeline: Early Polyphony
78
6
Polyphonic Conductus
84
1
The Motet
84
7
Thirteenth-Century Notation in Depth
91
1
Summary
92
1
Bibliography
93
3
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century
96
27
General Background
96
1
Timeline: Fourteenth-Century France and Italy
97
1
The Ars Nova in France
98
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