A history of western music / Donald Jay Grout.

Author/creator Grout, Donald Jay
Other author Palisca, Claude V.
Format Book
EditionThird edition/ with Claude V. Palisca.
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, ©1980.
Descriptionxii, 849 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents The state of music at the end of the ancient world -- Gregorian chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music of the fourteenth century -- Medieval to Renaissance: English music and the Burgundian School in the fifteenth century -- The age of the Renaissance: Ockeghem to Josquin -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music and instrumental music in the late Renaissance -- Early baroque music -- The mature baroque: vocal music -- The mature baroque: instrumental music -- The early eighteenth century -- Sources of classical style: the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century -- The late eighteenth century -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- The nineteenth century: romanticism, vocal music -- The nineteenth century: instrumental music -- The nineteenth century: opera and music drama -- The end of an era -- The twentieth century.
Abstract Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 761-799) and index.
LCCN 80012224
ISBN0393951367