AuthorGrout, Donald Jay
TitleA history of Western music / Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca
Imprint New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c1996
Edition 5th ed
Descript xvi, 862 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Musical life and thought in ancient Greece and Rome -- Chant and secular song in the middle ages -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- The American twentieth century


SUBJECT

  1. Music -- History and criticism

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Central Library (5th Floor)780.9 G882H 1996 CHECK SHELVES
Central Library (5th Floor)780.9 G882H 1996 CHECK SHELVES