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V. [1] Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- V. [2] The Renaissance -- V. [3] The baroque era -- V. [4] The classical era -- V. [5] The romantic era. |
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V. [1]. The Greek view of music. From the Republic / Plato ; From the Politics / Aristotle ; From the Harmonic Elements / Aristoxenus ; Harmonic Introduction / Cleonides ; From the Sophists at Dinner / Athenaeus -- The early Christian view of music. From the Exhortation to the Greeks / Clement of Alexandria ; From the Homily on the First Psalm / St. Basil ; From the Exposition of Psalm XLI / St. John Chrysostom ; From the Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians / St. Jerome ; From the Confessions / St. Augustine -- Music as a liberal art. From the De institutione musica / Boethius ; From the Institutiones / Cassiodorus ; From the Etymologiarum / Isidore of Seville -- Musical theory in the Middle Ages. Enchiridion musices / Odo of Cluny ; Prologus antiphonarii sui / Guido of Arezzo ; Epistola de ignoto cantu / Guido of Arezzo ; From the Scholia enchiriadis / Anonymous ; Ars cantus mensurabilis / Franco of Cologne ; From the Pomerium / Marchetto da Padua ; From the Ars novae musicae / Jean de Muris ; From the Speculum musicae / Jacob of Liege. |
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V. [2]. Musical theorists of the Renaissance. Proportionale musices, dedication / Joannes Tinctoris ; Liber de arte contrapuncti, dedication / Joannes Tinctoris ; From the Musica practica / Bartolome Ramos ; From the Trattato della natura e cognizione di tutti gli toni di canto figurato / Pietro Aron ; From the Dodecachordon / Heinrich Glarean [Glareanus] ; From the Istituzioni armoniche / Gioseffe Zarlino ; From El melopeo y maestro / Pietro Cerone ; From A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music / Thomas Morley -- Music in Renaissance life and thought. From Il cortegiano / Baldassare Castiglione ; Livre des melanges, dedication / Pierre de Ronsard ; Discorso mandato a Giulio Caccini / Giovanni de' Bardi ; From the Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna / Vincenzo Galilei ; Motettorum liber quartus, dedication / G. P. da Palestrina ; Cantiones sacrae of 1593, dedication / Orlando di Lasso ; Gradualia, dedications and forewords / William Byrd ; From The Compleat Gentleman / Henry Peacham -- Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Wittemberg Gesangbuch, foreword to the first edition / Martin Luther ; Wittemberg Gesangbuch, foreword to the revised edition / Johann Walther ; Geneva Psalter, foreword / Jean Calvin ; Geneva Psalter, foreword to the edition of 1565 / Claude Goudimel ; Letter to Henry VIII / Thomas Cranmer ; The Whole Book of Psalms, dedication and preface / Thomas East ; Preces speciales, dedication / Jacob de Kerle ; Brief on the Reform of the Chant / Pope Gregory XIII. |
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V. [3]. "Seconda practica" and "stile rappresentativo." Letter to G. B. Doni / Pietro de' Bardi ; Euridice, dedication / Ottavio Rinuccini ; Euridice, dedication / Giulio Caccini ; Euridice, foreword / Jacopo Peri ; Le nuove musiche, foreword / Giulio Caccini ; From L'Artusi, ovvero, Delle imperfezioni della moderna musica / G. M. Artusi ; Il quinto libro de' madrigali, foreword with the "declaration" of his brother G. C. Monteverdi / Claudio Monteverdi ; Madrigali guerrieri ed amoriosi, foreword / Claudio Monteverdi -- Musical practice in the Baroque age. Cento concerti ecclesiastici, preface / Lodovico Grossi da Viadana ; Del sonare sopra il basso / Agostino Agazzari ; Symphoniae sacrae, dedications and forewords / Heinrich Schutz ; Florilegia and Auserlesene Instrumental-Music, forewords / Georg Muffat ; Musikalische Handleitung, foreword / F. E. Niedt -- Operatic rivalry in France: pro and contra Lully. Parallele des Italiens et des Francais / Francois Raguenet ; From the Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique francaise / Le Cerf de La Vieville, Seigneur de Freneuse -- Critical views of Italian opera: Addison and Marcello. From The Spectator / Joseph Addison ; From Il teatro alla moda / Benedetto Marcello -- The reformulation of the theory of harmony and counterpoint. From the Gradus ad Parnassum / J. J. Fux ; From the Traite de l'harmonie / J. P. Rameau. |
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V. [4]. The transition to the musical practice of the Classical period. From the Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere zu spielen / J. J. Quantz ; From the Versuch einer grundlichen Violinschule / Leopold Mozart ; From the Versuch uber die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen / C. P. E. Bach -- Operatic rivalry in France: the "Querelle des Bouffons." Le petit prophete de Boehmisch-Broda / F. W. von Grimm ; Lettre sur la musique francaise / J. J. Rousseau -- Critical views of Italian opera: Algarotti and Gluck. From the Saggio sopra l'opera in musica / Francesco Algarotti ; Alceste, dedication / C. W. von Gluck ; Letter to M. d'Auvergne / F. L. Du Roullet ; Letter to the Editor of the "Mercure de France" / C. W. von Gluck -- The European scene. From The Present State of Music in France and Italy / Charles Burney ; From the Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden / J. F. Reichardt ; From the Memoires / A. E. M. Gretry ; From the Briefe geschrieben auf einer Reise nach Wien / J. F. Reichardt. |
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V. [5]. Literary forerunners of musical Romanticism. From the Vorschule der Aesthetik / Jean Paul ; The remarkable musical life of the musician Joseph Berglinger / W. H. Wackenroder ; From the Hesperus / Jean Paul ; Beethoven's instrumental music / E. T. A. Hoffmann ; The poet and the composer / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Composer-critics of the nineteenth century. On the opera "Undine" / C. M. von Weber ; Rossini's "William Tell" / Hector Berlioz ; Davidsbündlerblätter ; From Berlioz and his "Harold" symphony / Franz Liszt ; From Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft / Richard Wagner. |
| Abstract |
These volumes make available a representative selection from all the great writings on music from the times of ancient Greece through the Romantic era. The wealth and variety of the selections, the careful annotations, and the fact that most selections appear for the first time in English or in new translations by the editor make this an invaluable series. The reader can now acquire a comprehensive picture of the history of musical thought and of the changing ideas and interpretations of music throughout the ages. The five volumes provide a veritable library of musical comment and discourse: there are the philosophical theories of Plato and Aristole that embody the Greek view of music, the early Christian view of music as seen in the writings of the Church Fathers, from Clement of Alexandria to St. Augustine, the elaborate theories of the medieval scholars, the first stirrings of modern concepts among Renaissance musicians and the psychological attitudes of baroque writers. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are represented by significant selections from Jean Paul, E. T. A. Hoffmann, C. P. E. Bach, Rousseau, Gluck, Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner. With these volumes the author opens up a whole world to the music lover and student, so that not only highly trained scholars but every interested reader can discover the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of musical development. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 66000489 |
| ISBN | 0393096807 (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 0393096823 (v. 3) |
| ISBN | 0393096831 (v. 4) |
| ISBN | 0393096844 (v. 5) |
