A History of Western Music

by Grout, Donald J.; Palisca, Claude V.

• ISBN13: 9780393969047
• ISBN10: 0393969045
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Describes and illustrates a wide range of musical styles found in Western culture throughout history, and highlights the art and contributions of significant composers

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Abbreviations
Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome	p. 1
Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages	p. 32
The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century	p. 73
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century	p. 101
England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century	p. 130
The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries	p. 152
New Currents in the Sixteenth Century	p. 187
Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation	p. 239
Music of the Early Baroque Period	p. 268
Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century	p. 323
Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period	p. 359
Music in the Early Eighteenth Century	p. 389
Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period	p. 439
The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart	p. 484
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 533
Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music	p. 563
Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century	p. 592
Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century	p. 625
European Music from the 1870s to World War I	p. 652
The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century	p. 692
Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe	p. 732
The American Twentieth Century	p. 759
Glossary	p. 806
Index	p. 823
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