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A history of western music

Author: Donald Jay Grout; Claude V Palisca
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 6th edView all editions and formats
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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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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.

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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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