Critical and historical essays ; lectures delivered at Columbia university / by Edward MacDowell, edited by W. J. Baltzell.

Author/creator MacDowell, Edward author.
Other author Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James), 1864-1928, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston, New York [etc.] : A. P. Schmidt, ©1912.
Descriptionvii, 282 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents The Origin of music -- Origin of song vs. origin of instrumental music -- The music of the Hebrews and the Hindus -- The music of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese -- The music of the Chinese (continued) -- The music of Greece -- The music of the Romans the early church -- Formation of the scale notation -- The systems of Hucbald and Guido D'Arezzo the beginning of counterpoint -- Musical instruments their history and development -- Folk-song and its relation to nationalism in music -- The troubadours, minnesingers and mastersingers -- Early instrumental forms -- The merging of the suite into the sonata -- The development of pianoforte music -- The mystery and miracle play -- Opera -- Opera (continued) -- On the lives and art principles of some seventeenth and eighteenth century composers -- Declamation in music -- Suggestion in music.
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