Full Description
A great way to gain an in-depth understanding of Western music history, and II, include an introduction to and a score for 224 pieces of music representing all the major European styles, genres, and composers. The CIVILIZATION.
Contents
Part I1. Music in Ancient Greece.2. Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the Early Christian World.3. Chant in the Monastery and Convent.4. Music Theory in the Monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo.5. Later Medieval Chant: Tropes, Sequences, and the Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen.6. Troubadours and Trouveres.7. Early Polyphony.8. Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame.9. Inside the Cathedral Close and University: Conductus and Motet.10. In the Parisian Master's Study: Music Theory of the Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova.11. Music at the Court of the French Kings: The Ars Nova.12. Fourteenth-Century Music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut.13. Avignon, Symbolic Scores, and the Ars Subtilior.Musical Interlude 1: From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Performance.Part II: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE.14. Music in Florence, 1350-1425.15. Music at the Cathedral of Florence.16. Music in England.17. Music at the Court of Burgundy.18. Music at the French Royal Court.19. Music in the Low Countries.Part III: THE LATE RENAISSANCE.Musical Interlude 2: Music in the Late Renaissance.20. Popular Music in Florence, 1470-1540: Carnival Song and Lauda, Frottola, and Early Madrigal.21. Josquin Desprez and Music in Ferrara.Musical Interlude 3: Music Printing During the Renaissance.22. Music in Renaissance Paris.23. Renaissance Instruments and Instrumental Music.Musical Interlude 4: Music Theory in the Renaissance.24. Music in Three German Cities: The Protestant-Catholic Confrontation.25. Rome and the Music of the Counter-Reformation.26. Music in Elizabethan England, Part I: Early Vocal Music.27. Music in Elizabethan England, Part II: Later Vocal Music and Instrumental Music.28. The Later Madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi.Part IV: BAROQUE MUSIC.29. Early Baroque Music.30. The Birth of Opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice.31. The Concerted Style in Venice and Dresden.32. Religious Music in Baroque Rome.Musical Interlude 5: A Baroque Christmas in the Andes of South America.33. Instrumental Music in Italy.34. Instrumental Music in Germany and Austria.35. Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Vocal Music.36. Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Instrumental Music.Musical Interlude 6: From Ancient to Modern: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory.37. Music in London, Part I: Henry Purcell.38. Music in London, Part II: George Frideric Handel.39. Johann Sebastian Bach: Instrumental Music in Weimar and Coethen.40. Johann Sebastian Bach: Vocal Music in Leipzig.
