| Description |
xi, 910 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 24cm |
| Contents |
The state of music at the end of the ancient world -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music of the fourteenth century -- Medieval to Renaissance : music of England and Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- The age of the Renaissance : Ockeghem to Josquin -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music in the late Renaissance -- Music of the early Baroque period -- Operate and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- The early eighteenth century -- Sources of the classic style : the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century -- The late eighteenth century -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- The nineteenth century : Romanticism, vocal music -- The nineteenth century : instrumental music -- The nineteenth century : opera and music drama -- The end of an era -- The Twentieth century |
| Summary |
History and criticism of western music with chronologies and bibliographies following each chapter |
| Analysis |
Western music, to 1987 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 1980 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Palisca, Claude V.
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| LC no. |
88005204 |
| ISBN |
039395627X |
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0460047701 |
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