| Description |
506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Arco music library
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| Contents |
Music as a European art -- The earliest days--Church, court, and people -- The rise of part-music -- The golden age of choral music -- The beginnings of opera -- The age of Bach and Handel -- J. S. Bach -- Handel -- The reform of opera -- The Viennese background and Haydn -- Mozart -- Beethoven -- German opera and its French origins -- Schubert -- The romantic movement -- Mendelssohn and the classical ideal -- Hector Berlioz -- Wagner and Verdi -- National movements -- The end of the great German tradition -- After Wagner--Italy, Russia, and France -- Great Britain -- The Twentieth-century revolution -- Currents and cross-currents -- Music and the dance -- The latest developments. |
| Subject |
Music -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Cooper, Martin, 1910-1986, editor.
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