| Description |
ix, 396 pages : illustrations (including portraits, music) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Suggested readings" at end of most of the chapters. |
| Contents |
The characteristics of a musical tone -- Musical instruments -- Fundamental musical concepts : rhythm and melody -- Fundamental musical concepts : polyphony and harmony -- Fundamental musical concepts : form -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- George Frideric Handel -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- The Viennese school : Joseph Haydn -- The Viennese school : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- The Viennese school : Ludwig van Beethoven -- Romanticism in music -- Franz Schubert -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Robert Schumann -- Frédéric Chopin -- Hector Berlioz -- Franz Liszt -- Italian opera of the late nineteenth century -- Johannes Brahms -- Nationalism in music -- Russian nationalism -- French nationalism -- Post-Wagnerian music in Germany and Austria -- Jean Sibelius -- Claude Debussy -- Some recent trends. |
| Subject |
Music appreciation.
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