Heritage of music / edited by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall.

Other author Raeburn, Michael editor.
Other author Kendall, Alan, 1939- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Description4 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Partial contents v. 1. Classical music and its origins -- v. 2. The Romantic era -- v. 3. The nineteenth-century legacy -- v. 4. Music in the twentieth century.
Contents V. I. Foreword / Michael Raeburn, Alex Kendall -- Introduction / Paul Griffiths & Roland de Cande -- Interlude: the basis of Western music -- Medieval music / Albert Seay & Denis Stevens -- Interlude: music at the court of the Emperor Maximilian -- The Renaissance / Alec Harman -- Monteverdi, opera, and oratorio / John Whenham -- Germany before Bach / Frederick Hudson -- The Italian Baroque / Arthur Hutchings & Eric Cross -- Interlude: Baroque stage machinery -- Music in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Roger Blanchard & Wilfrid Mellers -- Interlude: Henry Purcell and English stage music -- Johann Sebastian Bach / Basil Lam -- Interlude: the Baroque organ -- George Frideric Handel / Anthony Ford -- The classical style / David Wyn Jones -- Interlude: the orchestra in the eighteenth century -- C. W. Gluck and the reform of opera / Julian Rushton -- Interlude: the keyboard concerto -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Julian Rushton -- Joseph Haydn / Peter Brown -- Biographical dictionary of composers / Malcolm Boyd & Brian Richardson.
Contents V. II. The age of Beethoven and Schubert / Otto Biba & Denis Matthews -- Ludwig van Beethoven / Alan Kendall & Basil Lam -- Interlude: from harpsichord to pianoforte -- Beethoven's symphonies / Antony Hopkins -- Beethoven and the string quartet / Denis Matthews -- Franz Schubert / Otto Biba & Brian Newbould -- Interlude: Goethe and music -- Schubert's songs / Philip Radcliffe -- Romantic music / Carl Dahlhaus -- Carl Maria von Weber / Ludwig Finscher -- Interlude: a revolution in wind instruments -- Hector Berlioz / Julian Rushton -- Frédéric Chopin / Philip Radcliffe -- Interlude: the traveling virtuoso: Niccolò Paganini -- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / R. Larry Todd -- Robert Schumann / Bernard Keefe -- The operatic tradition / Robert Donington -- Interlude: the romantic ballet -- Gioachino Rossini / Benedict Sarnaker -- Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti / Roger Parker & William Ashbrook -- Interlude: scribe and the Paris opéra -- Giuseppe Verdi / Roger Parker -- Giacomo Puccini / William Ashbrook -- Biographical dictionary of composers / Virgil Pomfret, Benedict Sarnaker & Celia Duffy.
Contents V. III. National styles in the nineteenth century: France and Russia / Martin Cooper -- Franz Liszt / Hamish Milne -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Paul Griffiths -- Interlude: the Russian ballet -- Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin / Justin Connolly -- Modest Petrovich Musorgsky [Mussorgsky] / Paul Griffiths -- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov / Roy Wilkinson -- Interlude: a Nordic romantic nationalist: Edvard Grieg -- César Franck / Roy Wilkinson -- Camille Saint-Saens / Ronald Crichton -- Music in the era of the emperor Franz Joseph / Heinz Becker -- Richard Wagner / Robert Anderson -- Interlude: the Bayreuth Festspielhaus -- Johannes Brahms / Heinz Becker -- Interlude: the music critic: Eduard Hanslick -- Anton Bruckner / Constantin Floros -- Interlude: the Austro-Hungarian empire -- Bedrich Smetana ; Antonin Dvorak / Kurt Honolka -- Interlude: the songs of Hugo Wolf -- Gustav Mahler / Constantin Floros -- Richard Strauss / Heinz Becker -- Biographical dictionary of composers / Noel Broome & Gudrun Becker.
Contents V. IV. Music of the new century / Felix Aprahamian -- Gabriel Fauré / Ronald Crichton -- Interlude: the conservatoire -- Claude Debussy / Felix Aprahamian -- Interlude: the Spanish Renaissance -- Ravel, Roussel, Satie and Les Six / Felix Aprahamian -- Sergei Rachmaninov / Robert Threlfall -- Jean Sibelius / Robert Layton -- Interlude: the history of recorded sound -- Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams / Jerrold Northrop Moore & Michael Kennedy -- Leos Janacek and Zoltan Kodaly / Malcolm Rayment -- Meaning and function in twentieth-century music / Wilfrid Mellers -- Interlude: the growth of jazz -- Igor Stravinsky / Richard Orton -- Interlude: the revival of early music -- Schoenberg, Berg and Webern / Paul Griffiths -- Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith / Hamish Milne -- Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich / Geoffrey Norris -- Charles Ives and Aaron Copland / Peter Dickinson -- Interlude: opera in the twentieth century -- William Walton, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten / Michael Kennedy -- Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Boulez / Robert Sherlaw Johnson -- Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen / Paul Griffiths -- Interlude: rock music in the seventies -- Electroacoustic music / Richard Orton -- Biographical dictionary of composers / Noel Broome.
Abstract Authoritative, comprehensive, and profusely illustrated in both color and black and white, this book is that rare musical reference, of interest to the specialist and casual listener alike. In this book you will find: comprehensive coverage of Western Music from the Middle Ages to the present; entire chapters devoted to each of the most important composers of each period; illustrations throughout, with art from each musical period presented parallel to the subject matter in order to amplify and complement the text; special "Interludes" between chapters that offer cogent commentary and descriptive information related to--but not covered by--the chapters; an illustrated biographical dictionary of composers of the period at the end of each volume; a full index to each volume, and a cumulative index at the end of Volume IV for fast and easy access to information in all four volumes; with approximately 225 color and 300 black and white illustrations in each volume.
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Bibliography noteIncludes indexes.
LCCN 85021429
ISBN019520493X (set)
ISBN0195053702 (v. 1)
ISBN0195053710 (v. 2)
ISBN0195053729 (v. 3)
ISBN0195053737 (v. 4)

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