Mark Evan Bonds teaches music history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). His publications include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), and A History of Music in Western Culture (2003). He has also edited Beethoven Forum and written numerous essays on the music of Haydn and Mozart.
Prologue: Antiquity | |
Music in the Biblical World | |
Ancient Greece | |
Music in the Roman Empire | |
The Musical Legacies of Antiquity | |
The Medieval Era | |
Prelude to Part I | |
Plainchant and Secular Monophony | |
The Emergence of Plainchant | |
The Elements of Plainchant | |
The Expansion of Plainchant | |
Secular Monophony | |
Polyphony to 1300 | |
Organum | |
Clausula | |
Motet | |
Conductus | |
Mensural Notation | |
Music in the 14th Century | |
France: The Ars Nova | |
Italy: The Trecento | |
England | |
Instrumental Music | |
Music of the Renaissance | |
Prelude to Part II | |
Renaissance Humanism | |
The Protestant Reformation | |
Renaissance Painting and Sculpture | |
Music in Renaissance Society | |
The Emergence of Renaissance Style | |
Consonance and Dissonance: Trusting the Ear | |
Sonority: The Contenance Angloise | |
Texture: Pervading Imitation | |
Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena and the Style of the Renaissance | |
The Genres of Renaissance Music, 1420-1520 | |
Sacred Vocal Music | |
Secular Vocal Music | |
Instrumental Music | |
Music in the 16th Century | |
Secular Vocal Music | |
Sacred Vocal Music | |
Instrumental Music in the 16th Century | |
Mannerism | |
The Baroque Era | |
Prelude to Part III | |
War, Revolution, and Colonial Expansion | |
The Scientific Revolution | |
The Musical Baroque | |
The New Practice | |
Searching for the Secrets of Ancient Greek Music | |
The Florentine Camerata | |
The Seconda Prattica | |
Music in the Baroque Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
Vocal Music, 1600-1650 | |
Secular Song | |
Opera | |
Sacred Music | |
Vocal Music, 1600-1750 | |
Opera | |
Sacred Music | |
Conceptions of the Compositional Process | |
Instrumental Music, 1650-1750 | |
Instruments of the Baroque Era | |
Instrumental Genres of the Baroque Era | |
The Classical Era | |
Prelude to Part IV | |
The Age of Enlightenment | |
War and Revolution | |
The Industrial Revolution | |
Music in Enlightenment Society | |
The Art of the Natural | |
Music and the Idea of Nature | |
Music in the Classical Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
Style and Form in the Mid-18th Century | |
Instrumental Music in the Classical Era | |
The Language of Instrumental Music | |
Sonata | |
String Quartet | |
Cyclical Coherence | |
The Symphony | |
Concerto | |
Vocal Music in the Classical Era | |
The Rise of Opera Buffa | |
Opera Wars | |
Gluck and the Reform of Opera | |
Mozart and the Synthesis of Operatic Styles | |
Sacred Music | |
Song | |
The 19th Century | |
Prelude to Part V | |
Progres | |
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