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