A history of western music / J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca.
| Author/creator | Grout, Donald Jay |
| Other author | Burkholder, J. Peter (James Peter) |
| Other author | Palisca, Claude V. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Seventh edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2006. |
| Description | xxviii, 965, 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part 1. The ancient and medieval worlds. Music in antiquity. The earliest music -- Music in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Timeline -- Music in Ancient Greek life and thought -- Music in Ancient Rome -- The Greek heritage -- The Christian church in the first millennium. The diffusion of Christianity -- The Judaic heritage -- Music in the early Church -- Divisions in the Church and dialects of chant -- Timeline -- The development of notation -- Music in context: in the monastic Scriptorium -- Music theory and practice -- Echoes of history -- Roman liturgy and chant. The Roman liturgy -- Music in context: the experience of the mass -- Characteristics of chant -- Timeline -- Genres and forms of chant -- Additions to the authorized chants -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Continuing presence of chant -- Song and dance music in the Middle Ages. European society, 800-1300 -- Latin and vernacular song -- Timeline -- Trobadour and trouvère song -- Song in other lands -- Medieval instruments -- Dance music -- The lover's complaint -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century. Early organum -- Aquitanian polyphony -- Notre Dame polyphony -- Timeline -- Polyphonic conductus -- Motet -- English polyphony -- A polyphonic tradition -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. European society in the fourteenth century -- Timeline -- The Ars Nova in France -- Innovations: writing rhythm -- Guillaume de Machaut -- The Ars Subtilior -- Italian Trecento music -- Fourteenth-century music in performance -- Echoes of the new art -- |
| Contents | Part 2. The Renaissance. The age of the Renaissance. The Renaissance in culture and art -- Timeline -- The musical Renaissance -- Music as a Renaissance art -- Innovations: music printing -- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century. English music -- Timeline -- Music in the Burgundian lands -- Music in context: the Feast of the Oath of the Pheasant -- Guillaume Du Fay -- The polyphonic mass -- The musical language of the Renaissance -- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520. Political change and consolidation -- Ockeghem and Busnoys -- The next generation -- Timeline -- Josquin des Prez -- Old and new -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation. The Reformation -- Music in the Lutheran Church -- Timeline -- Music in Calvinist churches -- Church music in England -- Catholic Church music -- Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina -- Spain and the New World -- Germany and Eastern Europe -- Jewish music -- The legacy of sixteenth-century sacred music -- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century. The first market for music -- Spain -- Italy -- Timeline -- The Italian madrigal -- France -- Germany -- England -- The madrigal and its impact -- The rise of instrumental music. Instruments -- Timeline -- Types of instrumental music -- Music in context: social dance -- Music in Venice -- Instrumental music gains independence -- |
| Contents | Part 3. The seventeenth century. New styles in the seventeenth century. Europe in the seventeenth century -- Timeline -- From Renaissance to Baroque -- General characteristics of Baroque music -- Enduring innovations -- The invention of opera. Forerunners of opera -- Timeline -- The first operas -- Claudio Monteverdi -- The spread of Italian opera -- Innovations: singer-power and singer-worship, the diva -- Opera as drama and as theater -- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century. Italian vocal chamber music -- Catholic sacred music -- Timeline -- Lutheran Church music -- Heinrich Schütz -- Jewish music -- Instrumental music -- Tradition and innovation -- France, England, Spain, and the new world in the seventeenth century. The French Baroque -- Music in context: the music of the Great Stable -- Timeline -- The English Baroque -- Spain and the New World -- French style and national traditions -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century. Italy -- Timeline -- Music in context: the violin workshop of Antonio Stradivarius -- Germany and Austria -- Seeds for the future -- |
| Contents | Part 4. The eighteenth century. The early eighteenth century in Italy and France. Europe in a century of change -- Music in Italy -- Timeline -- Music in context: the voice of Farinelli -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Music in France -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- A volatile public -- German composers of the late Baroque. Contexts for music -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Timeline -- George Frideric Handel -- An enduring legacy -- Opera and vocal music in the early Classic period. Europe in the mid- to late-eighteenth century -- Innovations: the public concert -- Musical taste and style -- Timeline -- Italian comic opera -- Opera seria -- Opera in other languages -- Opera reform -- Song and church music -- Opera and the new language -- Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury. Instruments and ensembles -- Genres and forms -- Timeline -- Keyboard music -- Orchestral music -- The singing instrument -- Classic music in the late eighteenth century. Joseph Haydn -- Timeline -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Classic music -- |
| Contents | Part 5. The nineteenth century. Revolution and change. Revolution, war, and music, 1789-1815 -- Timeline -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Beethoven's centrality -- The Romantic generation: song and piano music. The new order, 1815-1848 -- Innovations: musical instruments in the Industrial Revolution -- Romanticism -- Timeline -- Song -- Music for piano -- The romantic legacy -- Romanticism in classic forms: orchestral, chamber, and choral music. Orchestral music -- Timeline -- Chamber music -- Choral music -- Romanticism and the classical tradition -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury. The roles of opera -- Italy -- France -- Germany -- The United States -- Timeline -- Opera as high culture -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century. Technology, politics, and nationalism -- Music in context: nationalism and exoticism -- Opera -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Later Italian composers -- Richard Wagner -- France -- Russia -- Other nations -- Timeline -- Music for the stage and its audiences -- Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria. Dichotomies and disputes -- Timeline -- Johannes Brahms -- The Wagnerians -- Reaching the audience -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century. France -- Eastern and Northern Europe -- Timeline -- The United States -- Reception and recognition -- |
| Contents | Part 6. The twentieth century and after. The early twentieth century. Modern times, 1898-1918 -- Innovations: recorded sound and its impact -- Vernacular musical traditions -- Timeline -- Modern music in the classical tradition -- Germany and Austria -- Claude Debussy -- The first modern generation -- The avant-garde -- Late romantic or modern? -- Modernism and the classical tradition. Arnold Schoenberg -- Timeline -- Music in context: expressionism -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Igor Stravinsky -- Béla Bartók -- Charles Ives -- Composer and audience -- Between the World Wars: jazz and popular music. Between the Wars -- Timeline -- American musical theater and popular song -- The jazz age -- Duke Ellington -- Film music -- Mass media and popular music -- Between the World Wars: the classical tradition. Music, politics, and the people -- Timeline -- France -- Germany -- The Soviet Union -- The Americas -- The United States -- What politics? -- Postwar crosscurrents. The Cold War and the splintering tradition -- Popular music -- Broadway and film music -- Timeline -- From bebop to free jazz -- Heirs to the classical tradition -- Traditional media -- Serialism -- Nonserial complexity and virtuosity -- New sounds and textures -- The avant-garde -- Quotation and collage -- Band and wind ensemble music -- Roll over, Beethoven -- The end of the millennium. A global culture -- Timeline -- The changing world of music -- Music in context: digital technologies -- Niches in popular music -- Minimalism and postminimalism -- The new accessibility -- Interactions with non-Western music technologies -- The new millennium. |
| Abstract | Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that has always defined this classic text, this new revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005048797 |
| ISBN | 0393979911 |
| ISBN | 9780393979916 |
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