:: Welcome to Concise History of Western Music, 3rd Edition ::

Based on J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J.Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, Seventh Edition

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Part I: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds

	Chapter 1: Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
	Chapter 2: Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages
	Chapter 3: Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century
	Chapter 4: French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century

Part II: The Age of the Renaissance

	Chapter 5: England, France, and Burgundy 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: Secular Song and the Rise of National Styles in the Sixteenth Century
	Chapter 8: Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation

Part III: The Age of the Baroque

	Chapter 9: Vocal Music of the Early Baroque Period
	Chapter 10: Instrumental Music Comes of Age
	Chapter 11: Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century
	Chapter 12: Instrumental Music in the Late Seventeenth Century

Part IV: The Eighteenth Century

	Chapter 13: Music in the Early Eighteenth Century
	Chapter 14: The Early Classical Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Early and Mid-Eighteenth Century
	Chapter 15: The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart
	Chapter 16: Ludwig van Beethoven

Part V: The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Romanticism

	Chapter 17: The Nineteenth Century: The Early Romantics
	Chapter 18: The Nineteenth Century: The Later Romantics
	Chapter 19: Opera and Dramatic Music in the Nineteenth Century
	Chapter 20: The Final Bloom of Romanticism: European Music at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Part VI: The Twentieth Century and Today

	Chapter 21: The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century
	Chapter 22: Music, Politics, and the People in the European Twentieth Century
	Chapter 23: Colonial, Vernacular, and Classical Traditions in America
	Chapter 24: The Changing World of Art Music Since 1945