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245 12 a| A pictorial history of music /c| [by] Paul Henry Lang and Otto Bettmann.;

250 a| [First edition].;

260 a| New York :b| Norton,c| [1960];

300 a| vii, 242 pages :b| illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ;c| 29 cm;

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505 0 a| Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance : Music in the life of the Greeks -- The beginning of the Middle Ages -- The worldly songs of the trouvères and troubadours -- Early polyphony and the beginnings of instrumental music -- Music and the Burgundian Court -- The Renaissance -- Music in Renaissance culture -- The vogue of the madrigal -- The coming of the counter-Reformation -- The age of the Baroque : The Baroque style: grandiose and resplendent -- The birth of opera -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Opera in France: Lully -- Opera in England: Purcell -- Ascendancy of the violin -- The violin family -- Baroque organ and the fugal style -- The Protestant Baroque: cantatas and oratorios -- Music: art or science? -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Bach's pilgrimages -- Bach's choral works -- Bach's instrumental works -- Instrumentalists in the age of Bach and Handel -- Handel's operas -- Beggar's Opera -- Oratorio: religious drama in music -- Handel's instrumental music -- From Rococo to classicism : The Rococo -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Toward true opera -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Comic opera -- The Mannheim School -- Classicism -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Mozart's instrumental music -- Mozart's operas -- Genesis of The Magic Flute -- 18th-century concert life -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Beethoven's instrumental music -- Franz Peter Schubert -- Music in the Romantic era : The mood of romanticism -- German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Robert Schumann -- Robert and Clara -- Frédéric Chopin -- The search for the spectacular: grand opera -- Italian opera -- Hector Berlioz: arch romantic -- Franz Liszt: architect of the symphonic tone poem -- Richard Wagner: superman of opera -- Wagner's romantic operas -- The Ring of the Nibelungen -- Bayreuth and Parsifal -- Aggrandizement of the orchestra -- The emergence of the virtuoso conductor -- Anton Bruckner -- The twilight of Romanticism : Johanes Brahms -- Georges Bizet -- Giuseppe Verdi: composer and patriot -- French opera: Gounod, Thomas, Massenet -- The sprightly world of Offenbach and Strauss -- The Viennese Waltz -- César Franck and his school -- Rebirth of music in England: Parry, Stanford, Elgar -- English light opera: Gilbert and Sullivan -- Music in America: Edward MacDowell -- The rise of the national schools : Russia: Glinka and the five -- Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Lyricists of the homeland: Smetana and Dvorák -- Music of the north -- Edvard Grieg: the voice of Norway -- Jean Sibelius: heroic visions of Finland's past -- Toward impressionism : New notions of tonality -- Gustav Mahler and the monumental -- Hugo Wolf: master of the modern song -- Max Reger: a return to Bach -- Richard Strauss: wizard of orchestration -- Giacomo Puccini: genius of the theatrical -- Verismo's minor masters -- Impressionism: Claude Debussy, the flagbearer -- Maurice Ravel: elegant miniaturist -- Impressionism in Spain and Italy -- England's new voices -- The twentieth century : Modern music and modern life -- Challengers of traditional tonality: Arnold Schoenberg and his school -- Igor Stravinsky: from exoticism to classicism -- Béla Bártok: passionate dualist -- Les Six: the modern French masters -- Paul Hindemith: a leader of contemporary music -- Soviet musicians: social realism -- Contemporary American music.;

520 a| In this book the reader will find, spread out before him in more than 600 illustrations, a panoramic view of one man's most important and creative worlds: the world of music. His guide through this world is a sparkling text written by one of America's foremost scholars and critics. A Political History of Music is much more than a picture book. Its illustrations include examples of all forms of the visual arts- painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs- by important artists. Each era of music history is illustrated by pictures which are contemporary with the material being discussed, so that we see how Guillaume de Machaut looked to a miniaturist of the 14th century and how Stravinsky looked to Picasso. In addition to the portraits of musicians and composers, the authors have included illustrations of instruments, reproductions of manuscripts music, views of the physical surroundings in which composers worked, stage settings in which music was performed- in short, all the things which help to bring a composer and his work to life. The material covered- 2500 years of music history- ranges from early Greek music to the work of the present-day composers. The author of the text, Dr. Paul Henry Lang, discusses pertinent biographical information, explains musical forms, indicates the relationships of social and literary ideas to the history of music, and shows the part each composer has played in the pageant of music through the years. The reader who seeks to understand what music means and how its history developed will find this text's authority and perception invaluable. This unique volume has been made possible by the collaboration of two authorities well known in their respective fields: Paul Henry Lang is Professor of Musicology at Columbia University and Music Critic of the New York Herald Tribune, and Otto L. Bettmann is a graphic historian, founder and director of the Bettmann Archive, and collaborator with Van Wyck Brooks on Our Literary Heritage. The text of the book is marked by Dr. Lang's rare gift of elucidating scholarship in a highly evocative style. His broad cultural concepts have made his Music in Western Civilization the finest one-volume survey of music in English, and the text of that book has been basically followed in A Pictorial History of Music. The molding of the abridged text and the pictures into the present book has been the work of Dr. Bettmann, who has drawn on libraries and museums the world over for the illustrations that appear in the book.;

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A pictorial history of music / [by] Paul Henry Lang and Otto Bettmann.

Author/creator	Lang, Paul Henry
Other author	Bettmann, Otto.
Format	Book
Edition	[First edition].
Publication Info	New York : Norton, [1960]
Description	vii, 242 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Subjects	Music--History and criticism. Music in art. Musicians--Portraits. Musical instruments in art.

Contents	Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance : Music in the life of the Greeks -- The beginning of the Middle Ages -- The worldly songs of the trouvères and troubadours -- Early polyphony and the beginnings of instrumental music -- Music and the Burgundian Court -- The Renaissance -- Music in Renaissance culture -- The vogue of the madrigal -- The coming of the counter-Reformation -- The age of the Baroque : The Baroque style: grandiose and resplendent -- The birth of opera -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Opera in France: Lully -- Opera in England: Purcell -- Ascendancy of the violin -- The violin family -- Baroque organ and the fugal style -- The Protestant Baroque: cantatas and oratorios -- Music: art or science? -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Bach's pilgrimages -- Bach's choral works -- Bach's instrumental works -- Instrumentalists in the age of Bach and Handel -- Handel's operas -- Beggar's Opera -- Oratorio: religious drama in music -- Handel's instrumental music -- From Rococo to classicism : The Rococo -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Toward true opera -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Comic opera -- The Mannheim School -- Classicism -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Mozart's instrumental music -- Mozart's operas -- Genesis of The Magic Flute -- 18th-century concert life -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Beethoven's instrumental music -- Franz Peter Schubert -- Music in the Romantic era : The mood of romanticism -- German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Robert Schumann -- Robert and Clara -- Frédéric Chopin -- The search for the spectacular: grand opera -- Italian opera -- Hector Berlioz: arch romantic -- Franz Liszt: architect of the symphonic tone poem -- Richard Wagner: superman of opera -- Wagner's romantic operas -- The Ring of the Nibelungen -- Bayreuth and Parsifal -- Aggrandizement of the orchestra -- The emergence of the virtuoso conductor -- Anton Bruckner -- The twilight of Romanticism : Johanes Brahms -- Georges Bizet -- Giuseppe Verdi: composer and patriot -- French opera: Gounod, Thomas, Massenet -- The sprightly world of Offenbach and Strauss -- The Viennese Waltz -- César Franck and his school -- Rebirth of music in England: Parry, Stanford, Elgar -- English light opera: Gilbert and Sullivan -- Music in America: Edward MacDowell -- The rise of the national schools : Russia: Glinka and the five -- Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Lyricists of the homeland: Smetana and Dvorák -- Music of the north -- Edvard Grieg: the voice of Norway -- Jean Sibelius: heroic visions of Finland's past -- Toward impressionism : New notions of tonality -- Gustav Mahler and the monumental -- Hugo Wolf: master of the modern song -- Max Reger: a return to Bach -- Richard Strauss: wizard of orchestration -- Giacomo Puccini: genius of the theatrical -- Verismo's minor masters -- Impressionism: Claude Debussy, the flagbearer -- Maurice Ravel: elegant miniaturist -- Impressionism in Spain and Italy -- England's new voices -- The twentieth century : Modern music and modern life -- Challengers of traditional tonality: Arnold Schoenberg and his school -- Igor Stravinsky: from exoticism to classicism -- Béla Bártok: passionate dualist -- Les Six: the modern French masters -- Paul Hindemith: a leader of contemporary music -- Soviet musicians: social realism -- Contemporary American music.
Abstract	In this book the reader will find, spread out before him in more than 600 illustrations, a panoramic view of one man's most important and creative worlds: the world of music. His guide through this world is a sparkling text written by one of America's foremost scholars and critics. A Political History of Music is much more than a picture book. Its illustrations include examples of all forms of the visual arts- painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs- by important artists. Each era of music history is illustrated by pictures which are contemporary with the material being discussed, so that we see how Guillaume de Machaut looked to a miniaturist of the 14th century and how Stravinsky looked to Picasso. In addition to the portraits of musicians and composers, the authors have included illustrations of instruments, reproductions of manuscripts music, views of the physical surroundings in which composers worked, stage settings in which music was performed- in short, all the things which help to bring a composer and his work to life. The material covered- 2500 years of music history- ranges from early Greek music to the work of the present-day composers. The author of the text, Dr. Paul Henry Lang, discusses pertinent biographical information, explains musical forms, indicates the relationships of social and literary ideas to the history of music, and shows the part each composer has played in the pageant of music through the years. The reader who seeks to understand what music means and how its history developed will find this text's authority and perception invaluable. This unique volume has been made possible by the collaboration of two authorities well known in their respective fields: Paul Henry Lang is Professor of Musicology at Columbia University and Music Critic of the New York Herald Tribune, and Otto L. Bettmann is a graphic historian, founder and director of the Bettmann Archive, and collaborator with Van Wyck Brooks on Our Literary Heritage. The text of the book is marked by Dr. Lang's rare gift of elucidating scholarship in a highly evocative style. His broad cultural concepts have made his Music in Western Civilization the finest one-volume survey of music in English, and the text of that book has been basically followed in A Pictorial History of Music. The molding of the abridged text and the pictures into the present book has been the work of Dr. Bettmann, who has drawn on libraries and museums the world over for the illustrations that appear in the book.
Local note	Little-96422 - $18.95
General note	Text based on Music in Western civilization, by Paul Henry Lang, copyright 1941.
LCCN	60006822

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