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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Welcome to the Concise History of Western Music, 2nd Edition Online Tutor

This website was developed to help you review the historical facts and musical concepts presented in Barbara Russano Hanning's Concise History of Western Music, 2nd Edition.

Select a chapter from the Chapter Index above, or go straight to the section of your choice from the menu items on the left.

The Online Tutor offers you three study aids:

1. Chapter Outlines - These extensive outlines will guide you through the details of every textbook chapter. You can even print these out and keep them with your copy of the textbook.

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3. Listening Guides - Your CDs contain a password that enables you to download 82 interactive listening guides, one for each musical work on the CD set. The guides synchronize musical analysis with the audio CDs. They also provide a summary of the work and a glossary of terms.

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