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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Jay Grout; Claude V Palisca |
| ISBN: | 0393975274 9780393975277 |
| OCLC Number: | 44619446 |
| Description: | xvi, 843 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Maps -- Color plates -- Preface to the sixth edition -- Abbreviations -- Musical life and thought in ancient Greece and Rome -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- Beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- Age of the Renaissance: Music of the low countries -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation -- Music of the early Baroque period -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- Music in the early eighteenth century -- Sonata, symphony, and opera in the early Classic period -- Late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World War I -- European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- American twentieth century -- Credits -- Maps. |
| Responsibility: | Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca. |
Abstract:
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.
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