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A history of western music

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  • Author: Burkholder, J. Peter; Grout, Donald Jay; Palisca, Claude V.
    Edition: Ninth edition
    Date:
    Created
    2014
    Summary:

    Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, PeterBurkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation ofstudents, placing people at the center of the story.The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres, and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring, and significant—but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas. With a six-part structure emphasizing the music's reception and continued influence, Burkholder's narrative establishes a social and historical context for each repertoire to reveal its legacy and its significance today.

    Contents:
    • Music in antiquity
    • The Christian church in the first millennium
    • Roman liturgy and chant
    • Song and dance music to 1300
    • Polyphony through the thirteenth century
    • New developments in the fourteenth century
    • Music and the Renaissance
    • England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century
    • Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520
    • Sacred music in the era of the Reformation
    • Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century
    • The rise of instrumental music
    • New styles in the seventeenth century
    • The invention of opera
    • Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century
    • France, England, Spain, and the New World in the seventeenth century
    • Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century
    • The early eighteenth century in Italy and France
    • German composers in the late Baroque
    • Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment
    • Opera and vocal music in the early classic period
    • Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto
    • Classic music in the late eighteenth century
    • Revolution and change
    • The Romantic generation: song and piano music
    • Romanticism in Classical forms: orchestral, chamber, and choral music
    • Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury
    • Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century
    • Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria
    • Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century
    • The early twentieth century: vernacular music
    • The early twentieth century: the Classical tradition
    • Radical modernists
    • Between the world wars: jazz and popular music
    • Between the world wars: the Classical tradition
    • Postwar crosscurrents
    • Postwar heirs to the Classical tradition
    • The late twentieth century
    • The twenty-first century.
    Genre:
    Music
    Sujets: History and criticism | Music
    Original Publisher: New York, N.Y., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
    Language(s): English