Concise History of Western Music

by Hanning, Barbara Russano

• ISBN13: 9780393928037
• ISBN10: 0393928039
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-27
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The Third Edition has been meticulously revised and reorganized to provide a more streamlined narrative that emphasizes a core repertory, social and historical context, and performance practice. This comprehensive revision features outstanding new pedagogy and multimedia resources.

Table of Contents

Maps	ix
Guide to Recordings	xi
Preface to the Third Edition	xix
PART ONE The Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Introduction	3	(15)
Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome	18	(12)
Prelude	18	(1)
Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought	19	(3)
Roman Music, 200B.C.E.--500 C.E.	22	(1)
The Early Christian Church: Musical Thought	23	(2)
The Early Christian Church: Musical Practice	25	(3)
Postlude	28	(2)
Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages	30	(24)
Prelude	30	(1)
Western Christian Chant and Liturgy	31	(4)
Genres and Forms of Chant	35	(9)
Medieval Music Theory and Practice	44	(2)
Medieval Song	46	(7)
Postlude	53	(1)
Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century	54	(17)
Prelude	54	(2)
Early Organum	56	(2)
Notre Dame Polyphony	58	(6)
The Motet	64	(3)
The Polyphonic Conductus	67	(2)
English Polyphony	69	(1)
Postlude	70	(1)
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century	71	(27)
Prelude	71	(1)
The Ars nova in France	72	(8)
Italian Trecento Music	80	(4)
The Arssubtilior	84	(1)
Postlude	85	(4)
PART TWO The Age of the Renaissance
Introduction	89	(9)
England, France, and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style	98	(14)
Prelude	98	(2)
English Music and Its Influence	100	(2)
Music in Burgundian Lands	102	(8)
Postlude	110	(2)
Music of the Low Countries	112	(16)
Prelude	112	(2)
The Musical Culture of the Renaissance	114	(3)
Northern Composers: The Generation after Du Fay	117	(4)
The Next Generation: Josquin and His Contemporaries	121	(5)
Postlude	126	(2)
Secular Song and the Rise of National Styles in the Sixteenth Century	128	(18)
Prelude	128	(1)
The Rise of National Styles: Italy	129	(1)
The Italian Madrigal	130	(7)
The Rise of National Styles: Secular Song outside Italy	137	(4)
The Rise of Instrumental Music	141	(3)
Postlude	144	(2)
Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation	146	(31)
Prelude	146	(1)
The Music of the Reformation in Germany	147	(2)
Reformation Church Music outside Germany	149	(2)
The Counter-Reformation	151	(10)
Postlude	161	(2)
PART THREE The Seventeenth Century
Introduction	163	(14)
Vocal Music of the Early Baroque	177	(29)
Prelude	177	(1)
General Characteristics of Baroque Music	178	(5)
Early Opera	183	(11)
Vocal Chamber Music	194	(5)
Catholic Sacred Music	199	(3)
Lutheran Church Music	202	(3)
Postlude	205	(1)
Instrumental Music Comes of Age	206	(16)
Prelude	206	(1)
Types of Instrumental Music	207	(1)
Dance Music	207	(3)
Variations	210	(4)
Abstract Instrumental Works	214	(6)
Postlude	220	(2)
Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century	222	(22)
Prelude	222	(1)
Italy	222	(8)
France	230	(5)
England	235	(5)
Germany	240	(2)
Postlude	242	(2)
Instrumental Music in the Late Seventeenth Century	244	(35)
Prelude	244	(1)
Music for Organ	245	(3)
Music for Harpsichord	248	(5)
Ensemble Music	253	(12)
Postlude	265	(2)
PART FOUR The Eighteenth Century
Introduction	267	(12)
Music in the Early Eighteenth Century	279	(36)
Prelude	279	(1)
Italy: Antonio Vivaldi	279	(6)
France: Couperin and Rameau	285	(5)
Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach	290	(15)
England: George Frideric Handel	305	(8)
Postlude	313	(2)
The Early Classical Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Early and Mid-Eighteenth Century	315	(24)
Prelude	315	(1)
General Characteristics of the New Style	316	(3)
Opera buffa	319	(3)
Opera seria	322	(3)
Opera Reform	325	(4)
Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto	329	(4)
The Empfindsamer Style	333	(5)
Postlude	338	(1)
The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart	339	(35)
Prelude	339	(2)
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)	341	(1)
Haydn's Instrumental Music	342	(9)
Haydn's Vocal Works	351	(4)
WolfgangAmadeus Mozart (1756-1791)	355	(1)
Mozart's Salzburg Years	355	(2)
Mozart's Vienna Years	357	(15)
Postlude	372	(2)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)	374	(36)
Prelude	374	(1)
First Period	375	(4)
Second Period	379	(9)
Third Period	388	(7)
Postlude	395	(2)
PART FIVE The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Romanticism
Introduction	397	(13)
The Early Romantics	410	(28)
Prelude	410	(2)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)	412	(8)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)	420	(4)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)	424	(5)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)	429	(3)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)	432	(3)
Postlude	435	(3)
The Later Romantics	438	(24)
Prelude	438	(1)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)	439	(5)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)	444	(3)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)	447	(6)
Piotr ll'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)	453	(4)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)	457	(2)
Postlude	459	(3)
Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century	462	(31)
Prelude	462	(2)
French Grand (and Not So Grand) Opera	464	(5)
Italian Opera	469	(11)
German Romantic Opera	480	(9)
Church Music	489	(3)
Postlude	492	(1)
The Final Bloom of Romanticism: European Music at the End of the Nineteenth Century	493	(43)
Prelude	493	(1)
The Austro-German Tradition	494	(10)
National Trends	504	(9)
New Currents in France and Italy	513	(5)
Postlude: The Beethoven Legacy	518	(3)
PART SIX The Twentieth Century and Today
Introduction	521	(15)
The European Mainstream in the Early Twentieth Century	536	(25)
Prelude	536	(1)
The First Modern Generation	536	(10)
Tonal and Post-Tonal Music	546	(13)
Postlude	559	(2)
Music, Politics, and the People in the European Twentieth Century	561	(33)
Prelude	561	(1)
The Avant-Garde	562	(2)
France	564	(2)
Igor Stravinsky	566	(11)
Bela Bartok	577	(6)
Germany	583	(4)
The Soviet Union	587	(5)
Postlude	592	(2)
Music in America	594	(36)
Prelude	594	(1)
A Backward Glance: Music in the North American Colonies	594	(2)
Diverging Trends in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America	596	(9)
The Classical Tradition through Mid-Century	605	(8)
Vernacular Styles	613	(15)
Postlude	628	(2)
The Changing World of Music since 1945	630
Prelude	630	(1)
Heirs to the Classical Tradition	630	(6)
Serial and Nonserial Complexity	636	(2)
New Sounds and Textures	638	(8)
The Avant-Garde	646	(12)
The New Accessibility and Other Trends	658	(8)
Postlude	666
Further Reading	1	(6)
Glossary	7	(20)
Credits	27	(4)
Index	31