Title: Music, a listener's introduction /
Authors: Levy, Kenneth, 1927-
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Music appreciation.; Music History and criticism
Abstract: This book is a concise introduction to Western music for readers with little or no musical background. The cultural matrix out of which the music arose is stylistic in this text.
Contents: Ancient and medieval music -- Ancient Greece, Rome, the Bible -- Medieval plainchant -- Church polyphony : the Notre Dame School -- The rise of medieval secular music -- Medieval instrumental music -- Music in the Renaissance (ca. 1420-1600) -- The Renaissance and music -- The early Renaissance (ca. 1420-1475) -- The high Renaissance (ca. 1475-1530) -- The late Renaissance (ca. 1530-1600) -- Late Renaissance entertainment music : the madrigal -- From Renaissance to Baroque : the Venetian polychoral style -- Music in the Baroque era (1600-1750) -- The Baroque -- The rise of opera : Monteverdi and the recitative style -- The spread of opera and the rise of lyricism -- Instrumental music : the Baroque dance suite -- Instrumental music : the sonata -- Orchestral music : the concerto grosso -- The fugue -- The suites of J.S. Bach -- The concertos of J.S. Bach -- Cantata, passion, and mass -- Handel and the oratorio --^