Anthology for Music in Western Civilization, Volume II

by Roden, Timothy J.; Wright, Craig; Simms, Bryan R.

• ISBN13: 9780495572756
• ISBN10: 0495572756
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-17
• Publisher: Cengage

Summary

A great way to gain an in-depth understanding of Western music history, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Media Update, Volumes I and II, include an introduction to and a score for 224 pieces of music representing all the major European styles, genres, and composers. The anthologies are an excellent companion to Wright and Simms?s MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

Table of Contents

The Enlightenment And The Classical Era

Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Opera

Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Orchestral Music

Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Keyboard Music

Classical Music in Vienna

Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music

Joseph Haydn: Late Symphonies and Vocal Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Instrumental Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vocal Music

The Early Music of Beethoven

Beethoven+s Middle Period: 1802-1814

After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven+s Late Music

Romanticism

Musical Interlude 7: Romanticism

Franz Schubert

Music in Paris Under Louis Philippe: Berlioz and Chopin

Leipzig and the Gewandhaus: Mendelssohn and the Schumanns

German Opera in the Nineteenth Century: Weber and Wagner

Opera in Italy: Rossini and VerdiS

Nationalism and Virtuosity: Franz Liszt

Vienna in the Late Nineteenth Century: Brahms and Bruckner

Music and Ballet in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky

Vienna at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gustav and Alma Mahler

England at the End of the Romantic Period: Elgar and Vaughan Williams

Opera in Milan After Verdi: Puccini, Toscanini, and Verismo

Paris of the Belle Epoque: Debussy, FaurT, and Lili Boulanger

The Early Twentieth Century

Musical Interlude 8: Music Since 1900

Richard Strauss in Berlin

Music in Russian During the Silver Age: Igor Stravinsky

Atonality: Schoenberg and Scriabin

French Music at the Time of World War I: Ravel and Satie

Music in Paris After World War I: Stravinsky and the Six

Vienna in the Aftermath of War: Twelve-Tone Methods

Musical Theater in Germany in the 1920+s: Berg and Weill

BTla Bart=k and Hungarian Folk Music

Early Jazz

Paul Hindemith and Music in Nazi Germany

Music in Soviet Russia: Prokofiev and Shostakovich

Self-Reliance in American Music: Ives, Seeger, and Nancarrow

American Composers Return from Europe: Copland and Barber

Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway Musical

Contemporary Music

Musical Interlude 9: After World War II

Reflections on War: Britten, Penderecki, and Others

Twelve-Tone Music and Serialism After World War II

Alternatives to Serialism: Chance, Electronics, Textures

Harlem in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s: Big Bands, Bebop, and Cool Jazz

Musical Interlude 10: The Birth of Rock

Musical Interlude 11: Music in the Movies

Music of the 1960s and 1970s: Live Processes, Minimalism, Metric Modulations

Returning to the Known: Music of the Recent Past

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