Music in the Western World
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: October 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780195097627
Table of contents: title: The story of Western classical music; title: Introduction : Reading music; title: The first literate repertory in Western music : Gregorian chant; title: Secular and cathedral music in the High Middle Ages; title: The Ars Nova : musical developments in the fourteenth century; title: Island and mainland : toward a Pan-European style; title: A perfected art : church polyphony in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; title: After perfection : pressures for change; title: Humanism and the birth of opera; title: Music travels : trends in Italy, Germany, France, and England; title: The height of Italian dominance : opera seria and the Italian concerto style; title: Class of 1685 (I) : the instrumental music of Bach and Handel; title: Class of 1685 (II) : the vocal music of Handel and Bach; title: Mid-eighteenth-century stylistic changes : from Bach's sons to the comic style; title: Concert life lifts off : Haydn; title: The composer's voice : Mozart; title: The emergence of romanticism; title: Beethoven; title: Opera in the age of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Weber; title: Private art : Schubert and inwardness; title: Romantic spectacles : from virtuosos to grand opera; title: Literary musicians; title: Music imported and exported; title: Musical politics at mid-century : historicism and the New German School; title: Class of 1813 : Wagner and Verdi; title: Slavic harmony and disharmony; title: The musical museum and the return of the symphony; title: Dramatic alternatives : exoticism, operetta, and verismo; title: Early Austro-German modernism : Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg; title: Modernism in France; title: National monuments; title: Neoclassicism and 12-tone music; title: Interwar currents : the roaring twenties; title: Music and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Western Europe; title: Music and politics in America and Allied Europe; title: Starting from scratch : music in the aftermath of World War II; title: Changes in the sixties and seventies; title: "Many streams" : millenium's end