A History of Western Music

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

• ISBN13: 9780393975277
• ISBN10: 0393975274
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.

Author Biography

Claude V. Palisca is professor of music at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Maps	viii
Color Plates	ix
Preface to the Sixth Edition	xi
Abbreviations	xv
Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome	1	(30)
The Greek and Roman Heritage	1	(1)
Timeline: Greece and Rome	2	(1)
Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought	2	(6)
The Greek Musical System	8	(1)
Greek Music Theory in Depth	8	(7)
Music in Ancient Rome	15	(2)
The Early Christian Church	17	(3)
Byzantine Music in Depth	20	(2)
Timeline: The Early Christian Church	22	(7)
Bibliography	29	(2)
Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages	31	(39)
Roman Chant and Liturgy	31	(7)
Classes, Forms, and Types of Chant	38	(8)
Later Developments of the Chant	46	(4)
Medieval Music Theory and Practice	50	(7)
Nonliturgical and Secular Monody	57	(7)
Medieval Instrumental Music and Instruments	64	(2)
Bibliography	66	(4)
The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century	70	(26)
Historical Background of Early Polyphony	70	(1)
Early Organum	71	(2)
Florid Organum	73	(3)
Notre Dame Organum	76	(2)
Timeline: Early Polyphony	78	(6)
Polyphonic Conductus	84	(1)
The Motet	84	(7)
Thirteenth-Century Notation in Depth	91	(1)
Summary	92	(1)
Bibliography	93	(3)
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century	96	(27)
General Background	96	(1)
Timeline: Fourteenth-Century France and Italy	97	(1)
The Ars Nova in France	98	(8)
Italian Trecento Music	106	(5)
French Music of the Late Fourteenth Century	111	(2)
Musica Ficta	113	(3)
Fourteenth-Century Notation in Depth	116	(2)
Instruments	118	(2)
Summary	120	(1)
Bibliography	121	(2)
England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century	123	(21)
English Music	123	(6)
Music in the Burgundian Lands	129	(2)
Timeline: The Fifteenth Century	131	(10)
Bibliography	141	(3)
The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries	144	(33)
General Characteristics	144	(4)
Timeline: The Sixteenth Century	148	(6)
Northern Composers and Their Music	154	(10)
Josquin Des Prez	164	(6)
Some Contemporaries of Obrecht and Josquin	170	(2)
Summary	172	(1)
Bibliography	172	(5)
New Currents in the Sixteenth Century	177	(47)
The Franco-Flemish Generation (1520-50)	177	(4)
The Rise of National Styles	181	(2)
The Italian Madrigal	183	(11)
Secular Song outside Italy	194	(11)
Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth Century	205	(14)
Bibliography	219	(5)
Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation	224	(27)
The Music of the Reformation in Germany	224	(4)
Reformation Church Music outside Germany	228	(4)
Timeline: Events Affecting English Church Music, 1530-1660	232	(2)
The Counter-Reformation	234	(14)
Summary	248	(1)
Bibliography	248	(3)
Music of the Early Baroque Period	251	(58)
General Characteristics	251	(9)
Early Opera	260	(4)
Timeline: Early Baroque	264	(14)
Vocal Chamber Music	278	(7)
Venice	285	(2)
Genres of Catholic Church Music	287	(3)
Lutheran Church Music	290	(4)
Instrumental Music	294	(10)
Bibliography	304	(5)
Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century	309	(36)
Opera	309	(15)
Vocal Chamber Music	324	(3)
Church Music	327	(1)
Timeline: The Later Seventeenth Century	328	(13)
Bibliography	341	(4)
Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period	345	(28)
Organ Music	345	(6)
Harpsichord and Clavichord Music	351	(5)
Ensemble Music	356	(13)
Bibliography	369	(4)
Music in the Early Eighteenth Century	373	(47)
Antonio Vivaldi	375	(5)
Timeline: The Early Eighteenth Century	380	(1)
Jean-Philippe Rameau	380	(6)
Johann Sebastian Bach	386	(1)
Bach's Instrumental Music	387	(9)
Bach's Vocal Music	396	(9)
George Frideric Handel	405	(12)
Bibliography	417	(3)
Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period	420	(45)
The Enlightenment	420	(1)
Timeline: The Enlightenment and the Early Classic Period	421	(9)
Musical Rhetoric in Depth	430	(2)
Opera	432	(8)
Comic Opera	440	(5)
Beginnings of Opera Reform	445	(2)
Song and Church Music	447	(3)
Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto	450	(10)
Summary	460	(1)
Bibliography	460	(5)
The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart	465	(48)
Franz Joseph Haydn	465	(3)
Haydn's Instrumental Music	468	(17)
Haydn's Vocal Works	485	(3)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	488	(7)
Mozart's Vienna Years	495	(14)
Epilogue	509	(1)
Bibliography	509	(4)
Ludwig van Beethoven	513	(29)
The Composer and His Music	513	(3)
First Period	516	(6)
Second Period	522	(11)
Third Period	533	(6)
Bibliography	539	(3)
Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music	542	(29)
Romanticism	542	(2)
Timeline: Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century	544	(1)
Orchestral Music	545	(21)
Bibliography	566	(5)
Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century	571	(32)
The Piano	571	(1)
Music for Piano	572	(15)
Chamber Music	587	(6)
The Lied	593	(5)
Choral Music	598	(4)
Bibliography	602	(1)
Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century	603	(28)
Italy	603	(5)
France	608	(6)
Giuseppe Verdi	614	(4)
Germany	618	(3)
Richard Wagner and the Music Drama	621	(7)
Bibliogrphy	628	(3)
European Music from the 1870s to World War I	631	(45)
The German Tradition	631	(13)
National Trends	644	(16)
New Currents in France	660	(10)
Italian Opera	670	(1)
Bibliography	671	(5)
The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century	676	(37)
Introduction	676	(3)
Timeline: Early Twentieth Century	679	(1)
Ethnic Contexts	680	(4)
The Soviet Orbit	684	(5)
England	689	(4)
Germany	693	(6)
Latin America	699	(1)
Neo-Classicism in France	699	(3)
Stravinsky	702	(8)
Bibliography	710	(3)
Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe	713	(27)
Schoenberg and His Followers	713	(12)
After Webern	725	(4)
Recent Developments	729	(9)
Bibliography	738	(2)
The American Twentieth Century	740	(49)
The Historical Background	741	(7)
Vernacular Music	748	(6)
Foundations for an American Art Music	754	(1)
Timeline: World War II and After	755	(9)
Since 1945	764	(20)
Conclusions	784	(1)
Bibliography	785	(4)
Glossary	789	(18)
Credits	807	(4)
Index	811