Schirmer history of music / Léonie Rosenstiel, general editor ; Margaret Ross Griffel, consulting editor.
| Other author | Rosenstiel, Léonie, editor. |
| Other author | Griffel, Margaret Ross, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Schirmer Books ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1982. |
| Description | xviii, 974 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one. The Middle Ages / Charlotte Roederer. Medieval music: the historical background and cultural sources. Philosophical and musical background -- Classical Greek culture. Plato and Aristotle ; The greater and lesser perfect systems of classical Greece ; Greek hymns: surviving musical fragments -- Jewish tradition -- Byzantine tradition -- The repertory and theory of medieval chant. The early tradition (sixth to tenth centuries) -- Regional chant traditions -- Medieval music theory. The philosophy of music ; The three kinds of music ; Musica humana: harmonics, rhythmics, and metrics ; The pitch structure of chant melodies ; The rhythmic structure of chant melodies -- The style and liturgical function of medieval chant. Eleventh-century chant style. Musical-textual relationships ; Guido of Arezzo -- The church calendar and clock. The liturgical year (the calendar) ; The daily offices (the clock) -- The mass. Introduction ; Structure -- New liturgical and secular monophony. Monophonic additions to the liturgy -- Conductus, versus, and Goliard songs -- The troubadours and trouvères -- Minnelieder, Cantigas, and Laude -- The rise of polyphony. The earliest repertories. Chartres ; St. Martial ; Santiago de Compostela ; Winchester -- The school of Notre-Dame de Paris -- The development of the motet. From Clausula to motet -- The later styles -- Instrumental music -- Part two. The Ars nova and the Renaissance / Alejandro Enrique Planchart. Ars nova and Renaissance music in society. The transition of the fourteenth century -- Musicians and their music -- Musicians in society -- The Cathedral chapter -- Music in the towns and cities -- Religion and music -- The Hundred Years War and music -- Court and cathedral music, liturgical and ceremonial music -- Migrations to Italy -- Humanism -- Music teaching and music printing -- Humanism and music -- The Ars Nova and the Trecento. The breakdown of Franconian notation -- French Ars nova notation -- Italian Trecento notation -- The isorhythmic motet. Le Roman de Fauvel -- Philippe de Vitry -- The motets of Guillaume de Machaut -- Late-fourteenth-century motets -- Song forms -- Machaut's songs -- Italian song forms -- Trecento composers -- The late Ars nova and the transition in France and Italy -- Liturgical music -- English fourteenth-century music -- Sources of English music -- The early Renaissance. Forms and styles in the Old Hall manuscript -- English composers -- The early cantus firmus mass -- Carols and later English polyphony -- Continental music in the early fifteenth century -- English influence -- Guillaume Dufay -- Gilles Binchois -- The later fifteenth century. Johannes Ockeghem ; Antoine Busnois ; Contemporaries of Ockeghem and Busnois -- The High Renaissance: national styles. The rise of the polyphonic style. Josquin Des Prés ; Agricola and Obrecht ; La Rue, Mouton, Isaac -- The diffusion of the Netherlands style, 1520-1550. Willaert ; Gombert ; Clemens non Papa ; Other composers -- Italy -- France -- Germany -- Spain -- England -- The late madrigal in Italy. The virtuoso madrigalists ; Carlo Gesualdo ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Other composers -- The English madrigal -- Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Germany: Lutheran music -- France and Switzerland: Calvinist music -- England: Anglican Church music -- The Counter-Reformation. The Council of Trent ; The Roman school ; Northern Italy: The Gabrielis ; The Northern school ; William Byrd: English recusant -- Instrumental music and performance practice. Instrumental music. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; The later fifteenth century ; Improvised ensemble music ; Composed ensemble music ; The early sixteenth century ; Dance music ; Transcriptions of vocal music ; Settings of monophonic tunes ; Free instrumental music -- Performance practice. Sketchy notation ; Literary sources ; Historical records ; Theoretical treatises -- |
| Contents | Part three. The baroque era / Lowell Lindgren. The age and its musical artisans and artists. Characteristics of the age -- Musical artisans and artists. Composers ; Instrument makers and instrumentalists ; Singers -- Writers on music. Twenty Baroque classics of music literature ; Reasonings and polemics ; Doctrines of expression -- Concepts of musical style. Elements of the Aria da Cantar, 1540-1740 -- The early Baroque, stage 1: imitative polyphony incorporates elements of the aria (1580-1600). The popular arias around 1600 ; Elements of the aria -- The early Baroque, stage 2: monody replaces polyphony as the chief bearer of expression in the second practice (1600-1620). The new solo madrigal and monody -- The middle Baroque: Bel Canto arias for one or two soloists over a lively bass (1620-1680). The new texture and bass patterns ; The blend of speech and song ; The formal ideal: variation on one affect -- The late Baroque: tonality and the ritornello as formal principles. Binary form ; Da capo aria form ; Ritornello forms -- Baroque chamber music and performance practice. Notation and performance practice. General principles ; Conventions -- Vocal music. The early Baroque ; The middle Baroque ; Late-Baroque cantatas -- Instrumental ensemble music. The early Baroque ; The middle Baroque ; The late Baroque -- Music for a solo instrumentalist. Plucked strings ; Bowed strings ; Harpsichord -- Theater music. Italy. The early Baroque ; The middle Baroque ; The late Baroque -- Germany and Austria. The South ; The North -- France. The middle Baroque ; The late Baroque -- Spain. Italianate works ; Native traditions -- England. The early and middle Baroque ; The late Baroque -- Church music. Italy. Liturgical vocal music ; Liturgical instrumental music ; Devotional vocal music -- Other Catholic lands. Southern Germany and Austria ; Spain and Portugal ; France -- Lutheran Germany. The chorale ; Gospel commentaries ; Organ solos -- England. The Church of England ; Handelian oratorios -- Part four. From preclassic to classic / Gordana Lazarevich. Music in eighteenth-century society. Italy -- France -- The German-speaking lands -- England -- Russia and other courts -- The preclassic style: syntax and structural concepts. Descriptions of nascent sonata (or first-movement) form -- Italy: genesis of the preclassic style. Changes in musical structure ; Italian style abroad -- France: rococo and the style galant -- Developments in the German-speaking lands -- The Sturm und Drang -- Eighteenth-century opera and religious music. Opera seria. Conventions: opera in Italy ; Metastasian dramatic conventions and operatic traditions ; Composers ; Stage design and theaters ; Serious opera in other countries -- Gluck and his reforms -- Comic opera in Italy. Developments of opera buffa conventions ; The intermezzo ; Opera buffa -- Comic opera in other countries. France ; Germany and Austria ; England and Spain -- Sacred music. The Italian tradition ; Other Catholic centers ; Protestant religious music ; The English tradition -- The preclassic symphony, concerto, and instrumental ensemble. Orchestral music. The development of the orchestra ; The Italian opera overture ; The symphony -- The solo concerto and chamber music. The solo concerto ; Chamber music -- The Classic period. The concept of "classic" in music -- Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn's life ; Symphonic music ; Chamber music ; The sonatas and concertos ; Religious music ; Operas -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's life ; Symphonic music ; Chamber music and smaller orchestral works ; The instrumental sonatas ; The concertos ; Religious music ; Operas -- The end of an era: Classicism vs. Romanticism -- |
| Contents | Part five. The romantic and post-romantic eras / L. Michael Griffel. Music as a reflection of nineteenth-century society. The historical and cultural background. The Romantic spirit ; Political developments and Romanticism ; Artistic currents ; Literature -- Composers, performers, and audiences. Locales of music-making ; The rise of virtuosity -- The rise of music criticism -- Nationalism and exoticism -- The nature of nineteenth-century music. Romanticism: musical components. Melody ; Harmony and tonality ; Rhythm ; Sonority -- The concept of "grandness" -- Structure -- Romantic music for orchestra. The absolute symphony and its Romantic extensions. Beethoven ; Schubert ; Mendelssohn ; Schumann ; Bruckner ; Brahms ; Tchaikovsky ; Dvořák ; Sibelius ; Mahler -- Extramusical influences from Beethoven to Richard Strauss. Berlioz ; Liszt ; Richard Strauss ; Other programmatic works -- The Romantic concerto: rise of the solo concerto -- Nineteenth-century song and choral music. The art-song in German-speaking lands. The early Romantic era ; The late Romantic era -- The art song in France. Early songs ; Later songs -- The Romantic art song in Russia and elsewhere -- Religious choral music in the nineteenth century. The mass ; The Romantic Requiem mass: Cherubini, Berlioz, and Verdi ; Other requiems -- The oratorio in the nineteenth century. The late Romantic oratorio -- Other types of religious choral music. Psalm settings ; Te Deums and other sacred pieces -- Other Romantic works for chorus -- Piano and chamber music in the nineteenth century. Types of Romantic piano music -- Compositional styles in nineteenth-century piano music. Beethoven ; Schubert, his contemporaries, and Mendelssohn ; Robert Schumann ; Clara Schumann ; Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms -- Post-Romantic piano music in France, Spain, and Russia -- Organ music in the Romantic era -- Romantic and post-Romantic chamber music. The string quartet of the Romantic era ; The duo sonata in the nineteenth century ; Nineteenth-century music for other small instrumental combinations -- Nineteenth-century opera and music drama. Opera in Italy. Bel Canto and the Italian tradition ; Verdi ; Verismo opera and Puccini -- Opera in France. Operas-comiques ; Large-scale French opera ; Lyric opera ; The operas of Berlioz -- Opera in German centers. Romantic Singspiele ; German Romantic opera ; Richard Wagner and music drama ; Post-Wagnerian German opera -- Romantic opera in other centers. Russia ; Other countries -- Lighter operatic types in the Romantic era. France ; Vienna ; England ; Spain -- Part six. The twentieth century / Faye-Ellen Silverman. The twentieth century: an overview. Tonality and rhythm -- Twentieth-century performance practices -- The new notation -- New uses of timbre: impressionism and its outgrowth. Before World War I: impressionism in the arts -- Impressionism in music. Debussy ; Ravel -- Between the Wars. Varèse ; Messiaen -- The post-World War II generation. Xenakis ; The Polish school ; Ligeti ; Crumb -- Expressionism and serialism. Beyond the tonal system -- Expressionism in the arts -- Expressionism in music -- Serialism -- The serialist composers: before World War II. Schoenberg ; Berg ; Webern ; Other early serialists -- Serialist composers after World War II. Total serialism -- Nationalism and neoclassicism. Nationalism. Hungary ; Great Britain ; Russia ; Jazz-influenced composition ; Nationalism in the United States ; Czechoslovakia ; Spain ; Other nationalists -- Neoclassicism in music. Stravinsky ; Hindemith ; Les Six ; Satie ; After Les Six disbanded ; Other neoclassicists -- Traditionalists, eclectics, and the art of political commitment. Continuing traditions. The instrumental music: symphonies ; Vocal music: opera ; Vocal music: religious works -- Political commitment in the arts. Brecht's collaborators and influence ; Reactions to the Nazi ascendancy ; After World War II -- Socialist realism in the Soviet Union. Prokofiev ; Shostakovich -- Electronic and computer music. Electronic music. Mechanical and philosophical predecessors ; Production ; History -- The computer and music. Production and mechanical precursors ; History -- Non-Western influences and new principles of form. Microtonal experiments. Historical background ; The twentieth century -- Multimedia works -- Improvisation -- Indeterminacy. Musical precursors ; After World War II -- Other movements. Minimal art ; Conceptual art ; Anti-art ; The "new" tonality -- Part seven. The new world / Léonie Rosenstiel. Renaissance music and the new world. Indian civilizations before Columbus. Indian music at the time of discovery ; The heritage and influence of Indian music and folklore -- The discovery of America. Explorers before Columbus ; Explorers after Columbus -- The age of discovery and new world music: music at sea -- Music, missionaries, conquest, and settlement. Economic organization ; The West African heritage -- The new world influences the old -- Music for the church and the state. Composers in Spanish America: "Neo-Hispanic" polyphony ; Ceremonial and secular music in Spanish America ; Geographic diffusion and stylistic changes -- Baroque music and the new world. Music in Spanish colonial life. Secular music: Spanish American Baroque opera ; Spreading Italian influence ; Other secular music ; Liturgical and church-related music -- Portuguese America. Bahia ; Rio de Janeiro ; Pernambuco ; São Paulo -- Music in the English and German colonies. Jamestown ; The Puritans ; Anglo-American secular music ; Religious music in the New England colonies ; Ephrata Cloister -- French settlements. Nonliturgical and secular music in new France ; Religious music in new France -- Preclassic and classic music in the Americas. Hispano-American music. Hispano-American composers -- The Portuguese viceroyalty -- Anglo-America: the United States to the War of 1812. Philadelphia ; Boston ; Charleston ; New Orleans ; Anglo-American "popular" and "art music" traditions -- Other centers. Canada ; Guadeloupe and Haiti -- Romantic music and the new world. Hispano-America in the Romantic era. Opera and operetta ; Choral and instrumental music -- Portuguese America in the Romantic era -- The United States in the Romantic era. Blackface minstrelsy ; Opera ; Choral music ; The German influence ; Music for large groups ; Salon and solo piano music -- Canada -- Contemporary music in and of the Americas. Music and society -- American originals. Jazz ; Jazz styles ; The rise of rock music ; The musical comedy -- Latin American popular music -- The legacy of Romanticism. The second New England school -- Impressionists -- Early radical innovators -- Americanism and Americanismo in music -- Neoclassicism -- Dodecaphony, atonality, and serialism -- Electronic music -- Third-stream jazz, Romanticism, and eclecticism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| LCCN | 81051061 |
| ISBN | 002872190X |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML160 .S32 1982 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |