| Description |
viii, 471 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard F. French -- Historians and the periods / Jack Allan Westrup -- Gregorian chant / R.G. Weakland -- Troping hypothesis / Richard L. Crocker -- Gothic period / Hugo Leichtentritt -- Secular monophony / Albert Seay -- Birth of polyphony / Romain Goldron -- Renaissance : the historical conception of an epoch / Leo Schrade -- Origins of the cyclic Mass / Manfred F. Bukofzer -- Mannerism : 1520-1600 / Beekman Cannon, Alvin Johnson, and William Waite -- Musical form of the madrigal / Edward J. Dent -- Beginning of Baroque in music / Egon Wellesz ; trans. by Patricia Kean -- Oratorio / Donald F. Tovey -- Musical thought of the Baroque : the doctrine of temperaments and affections / Paul Henry Lang -- Rise of tonality / Manfred F. Bukofzer -- Origins of the Baroque concerto / Arthur Hutchings -- Outlines of a new picture of Bach / Friedrich Blume ; trans. by Stanley Godman -- Classicism, Romanticism, and music / Hans Tischler -- Music and society in the age of the Enlightenment / Hugh Ottaway -- Italian opera in the eighteenth century, and its influence on the music of the Classical period / Edward J. Dent -- Sonata-principle / Philip T. Barford -- Age of Goethe and Beethoven / Wilfrid Dunwell -- Romantic principles / John Culshaw -- Symphony in the 19th century / Paul Henry Lang -- After Wagner : what is art? / Jacques Barzun -- Post-Romanticism : Impressionism and Expressionism / Adolfo Salazar ; trans. by Isabel Pope -- Why and how of our new music / Kurt Stone -- Some aspects of twelve-tone composition / Milton Babbitt -- What electronic music is and how it is made / Ernst Krenek ; trans. by Margaret Shenfield and Geoffrey Skelton -- Electronic music : synthesizers and computers / Gerald Warfield -- Significance of aleatoricism in twentieth-century music / Anthony Cross -- Shop talk by an American composer / Elliott Carter -- Jazz as folk and art music / Sidney Finkelstein -- Points about rock / Arnold Shaw -- Revolution in music / Eric Salzman |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music.
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| Author |
French, Richard F. (Richard Frederic), 1915-2001.
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Hays, William
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| LC no. |
75037193 |
| ISBN |
0684127091 |
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0684127113 (paperback) |
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0684151499 |
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