Concise History of Western Music
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The most engaging and accessible brief survey of Western music history, at the best value on the market.
Preface1Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome12Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450183Polyphonic Music from Its Beginnings through the Thirteenth Century434French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century625England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style836The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries997The Age of the Renaissance: New Currents in the Sixteenth Century1208Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation1509Music of the Early Baroque Period17010Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century20811Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period22712Music in the Early Eighteenth Century24913The Early Classic Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Eighteenth Century28714The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart31515Ludwig van Beethoven35016Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music37317Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century39118Opera, Music Drama, and Church Music in the Nineteenth Century41219European Music from the 1870s to World War I43320The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century46221Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe49222The American Twentieth Century515Glossary553Index567
