num_pages: 624
description: This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, and other documents. Writings by composers, critics, and educators touch on virtually every aspect of Western music from ancient Greece to the present day.Table of Contents 	The Heritage of Antiquity	 	Orpheus and the Magical Powers of Music	 	Pythagoras and the Numerical Properties of Music	 	Plato''s Musical Idealism	 	Aristotle on the Purposes of Music	 	The Kinship of Music and Rhetoric	 	Music in Temple and Synagogue: the Judaic Heritage (Bible, Philo of	 	Music in the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, c. A.D. 400	 	The Middle Ages	 	The Church Fathers on Psalmody and on the Dangers of Unholy Music	 	The Testimony of St. Augustine	 	The Transmission of the Classical Legacy	 	Music as a Liberal Art	 	Before Notation	 	Embellishing the Liturgy	 	Musical Notation and Its Consequences	 	Music in Courtly Life	 	The Emergence of Polyphony	 	The Forms and Practices of Music, c. 1300	 	The First Musical Avant Garde	 	The Life of Francesco Landini	 	A Letter from	 	The Renaissance	 	The "Fount and Origin"	 	Music at Church and State Festivities in the Early Renaissance	 	The Triumph of Emperor Maximilian	 	Music as a Business	 	Music in Castiglione''s Courtier	 	Josquin des Prez in the Eyes of His Contemporaries	 	Luther and Music	 	The Swiss Reformers	 	The Reformation in England (cathedral injunctions	 	High Renaissance Style	 	Willaert the Reformer	 	Music at a Medici Wedding	 	Lasso and Palestrina as Revealed in The ir Letters	 	The Life of the Church Musician (Constitutiones Capellae Pontificae	 	The Genres of Music in the High Renaissance	 	The Counter Reformation	 	Palestrina: Fact and Legend	 	Madrigals and Madrigalism	 	Gesualdo, Nobleman Musician	 	The Most Musical Court in Europe	 	Music and Dancing as Social Graces (anonymous conversation book	 	Renaissance Instrumentalists	 	Radical Humanism: the End of the Renaissance	 	The Baroque	 	The Birth of a "New Music"	 	The "Second Practice"	 	The Earliest Operas	 	Basso Continuo and Figured Bass	 	From the Letters of Monteverdi	 	Venice, 1637: Opera Opens for Business	 	Schntz Recounts His Career	 	The Doctrine of Figures	 	Music and Scientific Empiricism	 	Music in the Churches of Rome, 1639	 	Music under the Sun King	 	Rationalistic Distaste for Opera	 	A New Sound Ideal	 	The Baroque Sonata (North	 	Modern Concert Life is Born (North	 	The Mature Baroque: the Doctrine of the Affections (Descartes	 	The Art of Music Reduced to Rational Principles	 	The Earlies
language: English
title: Music in the Western World
titlecomplete: Music in the Western World
genres: Music, College, History
ratings_count: 44
publisher: Cengage Learning