Concise History of Western Music
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Chapter Index Chapter 1: Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome Chapter 2: Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages, 400Ð1450 Chapter 3: Polyphonic Music from Its Beginnings through the Thirteenth Century Chapter 4: French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century Chapter 5: England and Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style Chapter 6: The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries Chapter 7: The Age of the Renaissance: New Currents in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 8: Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation Chapter 9: Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation Chapter 10: Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century Chapter 11: Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Chapter 12: Music in the Early Eighteenth Century Chapter 13: The Early Classic Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 14: The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart Chapter 15: Ludwig van Beethoven Chapter 16: Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music Chapter 17: Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 18: Opera, Music Drama, and Church Music in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 19: European Music from the 1870s to World War I Chapter 20: The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century Chapter 21: Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe Chapter 22: The American Twentieth Century
 
 
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Chapter 1:

Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
Chapter 2: Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages, 400–1450
Chapter 3: Polyphonic Music from Its Beginnings through the Thirteenth Century
Chapter 4: French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century
Chapter 5: England and Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style
Chapter 6: The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries
Chapter 7: The Age of the Renaissance: New Currents in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 8: Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation
Chapter 9: Music of the Early Baroque Period
Chapter 10: Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century
Chapter 11: Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque
Chapter 12: Music in the Early Eighteenth Century
Chapter 13: The Early Classic Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 14: The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart
Chapter 15: Ludwig van Beethoven
Chapter 16: Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music
Chapter 17: Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 18: Opera, Music Drama, and Church Music in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 19: European Music from the 1870s to World War I
Chapter 20: The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 21: Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe
Chapter 22: The American Twentieth Century
   

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