Editor: Barbara Russano Hanning
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Item code: D3245
ISBN: 0393977757
pages: 618
Contents
1. Music in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome
2. Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450
3. Polyphonic music from its beginnings through the thirteenth century
4. French and Italian music in the fourteenth century
5. England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century: the beginnings of an international style
6. The age of the Renaissance: music of the Low Countries
7. The age of the Renaissance: new currents in the sixteenth century
8. Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation
9. Music of the early Baroque period
10. Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century
11. Instrumental music in the late Baroque period
12. music in the early eighteenth century
13. The early classical period: opera and instrumental music in the eighteenth century
14. The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart
15. Ludwig van Beethoven
16. Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music
17. Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century
18. Opera, music drama, and chuch music in the nineteenth century
19. European music from the 1870s to World war I
20. The European mainstream in the twentieth century
21. Antonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe
22. The American twentieth century