Screen LibraryA history of Western music /
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| Published: |
W.W. Norton,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1973] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 818 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: pages 738-775. |
| ISBN: |
0393094162 9780393094169 0460045466 9780460045469 |
| Index Number: | ML160 |
| CLC: | J609 |
| Call Number: | #P001072 |
| Contents: | The state of music at the end of the ancient world -- Gregorian chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music of the fourteenth century -- Medieval to Renaissance: English music and the Burgundian School in the fifteenth century -- The age of the Renaissance: Ockeghem to Josquin -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music and instrumental music in the late Renaissance -- Early baroque music -- The mature baroque: vocal music -- The mature baroque: instrumental music -- The early eighteenth century -- Sources of classical style: the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century -- The late eighteenth century -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- The nineteenth century: romanticism; vocal music -- The nineteenth century: instrumental music -- The nineteenth century: opera and music-drama -- The end of an era -- The twentieth century. |