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A History of Western Music 7e

Contents

  • Part I: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds
  • 1. Music in Antiquity
  • 2. The Christian Church in the First Millennium
  • 3. Roman Liturgy and Chant
  • 4. Song and Dance Music in the Middle Ages
  • 5. Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century
  • 6. French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century
  • Part II: The Renaissance
  • 7. The Age of the Renaissance
  • 8. England and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century
  • 9. Franco-Flemish Composers, 1450–1520
  • 10. Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation
  • 11. Madrigal and Secular Song in the Sixteenth Century
  • 12. The Rise of Instrumental Music
  • Part III: The Seventeenth Century
  • 13. New Styles in the Seventeenth Century
  • 14. The Invention of Opera
  • 15. Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Seventeenth Century
  • 16. France, England, Spain, and the New World in the Seventeenth Century
  • 17. Italy and Germany in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • Part IV: The Eighteenth Century
  • 18. The Early Eighteenth Century in Italy and France
  • 19. German Composers of the Late Baroque
  • 20. Opera and Vocal Music in the Early Classic Period
  • 21. Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto at Midcentury
  • 22. Classic Music in the Late Eighteenth Century
  • Part V: The Nineteenth Century
  • 23. Revolution and Change
  • 24. The Romantic Generation: Song and Piano Music
  • 25. Romanticism in Classic Forms: Orchestral, Chamber, and Choral Music
  • 26. Romantic Opera and Musical Theater to Midcentury
  • 27. Opera and Musical Theater in the Later Nineteenth Century
  • 28. Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria
  • 29. Diverging Traditions in the Later Nineteenth Century
  • Part VI: The Twentieth Century and After
  • 30. The Early Twentieth Century
  • 31. Modernism and the Classical Tradition
  • 32. Between the World Wars: Jazz and Popular Music
  • 33. Between the World Wars: The Classical Tradition
  • 34. Postwar Crosscurrents
  • 35. The End of the Millennium