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1st ed. |
| Description |
vii, 242 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"Text based on Music in Western civilization, by Paul Henry Lang, copyright 1941." |
| Contents |
I. Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance : Music in the life of the Greeks ; The beginning of the Middle Ages ; The worldly songs of the Trouvères and Troubadours ; Early polyphony and the beginnings of instrumental music ; Music and the Burgundian court ; The Renaissance ; Music in Renaissance culture ; The vogue of the madrigal ; The coming of the Counter-Reformation |
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II. The Age of the Baroque : The Baroque style: grandiose and resplendent ; The birth of opera ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Opera in France: Lully ; Opera in England: Purcell ; Ascendancy of the violin ; The violin family ; Baroque organ and the fugal style ; The Protestant Baroque: cantatas and oratorios ; Music: art or science? ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; Bach's pilgrimages ; Bach's choral works ; Bach's instrumental works ; Instrumentalists in the age of Bach and Handel ; Handel's operas ; Beggar's Opera ; Oratorio: religious drama in music ; Handel's instrumental music |
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III. From Rococo to Classicism : The Rococo ; Domenico Scarlatti ; Toward true opera ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Comic opera ; The Manheim school ; Classicism ; Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Mozart's instrumental music ; Mozart's operas ; Genesis of The Magic Flute ; 18th-century concert life ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Beethoven's instrumental music ; Franz Peter Schubert |
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IV. Music in the Romantic era : The mood of Romanticism ; German Romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Robert Schumann ; Robert and Clara ; Frédéric Chopin ; The search for the spectacular: grand opera ; Italian opera ; Hector Berlioz: arch Romantic ; Franz Liszt: architect of the symphonic tone poem ; Richard Wagner: superman of the opera ; Wagner's Romantic operas ; The Ring of the Nibelungen ; Bayreuth and Parsifal ; Aggrandizement of the orchestra ; The emergence of the virtuoso conductor ; Anton Bruckner |
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V. The twilight of Romanticism : Johannes Brahms ; Georges Bizet ; Giuseppe Verdi: composer and patriot ; French opera: Gounod, Thomas, Massenet ; The sprightly world of Offenbach and Strauss ; The Viennese waltz ; César Franck and his school ; Rebirth of music in England: Parry, Stanford, Elgar ; English light opera: Gilbert and Sullivan ; Music in America: Edward MacDowell |
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VI. The rise of the national schools : Russia: Glinka and the Five ; Peter llich Tchaikovsky ; Lyricists of the homeland: Smetana and Dvorák ; Music of the north ; Edvard Grieg: The voice of Norway ; Jean Sibelius: heroic visions of Finland's past |
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VII. Toward impressionism : New notions of tonality ; Gustav Mahler and the monumental ; Hugo Wolf: master of modern song ; Max Reger: a return to Bach ; Richard Strauss: wizard of orchestration ; Giacomo Puccini: genus of the theatrical ; Verismo's minor masters ; Impressionism: Claude Debussy, the flagbearer ; Maurice Revel: elegant miniaturist ; Impressionism in Spain and Italy ; England's new voices |
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VIII. The twentieth century : Modern music and modern life ; Challengers of traditional tonality: Arnold Schoenberg and his school ; Igor Stravinsky: From exoticism to Classicism ; Béla Bártok: passionate dualist ; Les Six: The modern French masters ; Paul Hindemith: a leader of contemporary music ; Soviet musicians: social realism ; Contemporary American music. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music in art.
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Musicians -- Portraits.
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Musical instruments in art.
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Muziek.
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Music in art. (OCoLC)fst01030543
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Musical instruments in art. (OCoLC)fst01030759
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Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Portraits. (OCoLC)fst01423831
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Portraits.
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Portraits.
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| Added Author |
Bettmann, Otto.
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