Music in western civilization / by Paul Henry Láng.
| Author/creator | Lang, Paul Henry |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©1941. |
| Description | xxii, 1107 pages, 14 pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, maps, music, facsimile, 3 double maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Ancient Greece. Music in the cult of the beautiful -- Music in mythology and the Homeric period -- Poetry, song, and instrumental music -- "The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music" -- The sociological aspects of music -- The science of music -- The last phase of classical music -- Byzantium. Music in Eastern Christendom -- Comparison of the music of Ancient Greece and Byzantium -- Byzantine church music and spiritual poetry -- Rome -- The Patristic period. "Middle Ages" versus Renaissance -- The problem of Christian church music. The origins and elements of Christian ritual music -- The organization of the service of worship. Secular music ; Ecclesiastical opposition -- Theological, philosophical, and scientific foundations of Christian ritual music -- Gregorian art and its sphere of influence. Gregory the Great -- The Cantus Romanus in Britain -- The Cantus Romanus in the Carolingian Empire -- The Celtic influence -- The offshoots of Gregorian music -- The decline of Gregorian art -- Gregorian chant in the universal sacred act of the Romanesque period -- Secular music in the Carolingian period -- Theoretical, artistic, and philosophical conceptions of music -- Further diffusion of Gregorian art. Emergence of drama from the liturgy -- Lyric poetry, parody, and persiflage -- The musical origins of medieval lyric poetry -- Feudalism and its art. Troubadours and trouvères ; Other aspects of knightly lyricism ; The minstrels ; The decline of chivalric art -- The awakening of Italian lyricism by Provençal art -- Troubadours and minstrels in England -- The Minnesinger -- The Gothic. The rise of the Gothic -- The origins of polyphony -- Forms and devices of early polyphony -- The Ars antiqua -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Medieval musical doctrines and theories -- Ecclesiastical opposition to polyphony -- The impact of the French Gothic on neighboring civilizations -- The Ars nova. The collapse of the Medieval Order -- Between Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Ars nova and Ars antiqua -- The Ars nova in France -- The Ars nova in Italy -- The practice of Trecento music -- New trends in musical theory and aesthetics -- The universal dissemination and appreciation of music in the fourteenth century -- The Renaissance. Renaissance and humanism -- Renaissance music vindicated by modern research -- The final manifestations of late Gothic music -- The stylistic reconciliation of Gothic and early Renaissance elements. The English influence ; The Burgundian school -- The rise of a neo-Gothic style -- Migration of Flemish musicians -- Italian music in the Quattrocento -- Emergence of Franco-Flemish composers -- The problems of Cinquecento music -- Reformation and Renaissance, humanism in Germany. The Meistersinger -- Burgundian and Franco-Flemish influence in German art. The emancipation of German composers ; Luther and German Protestant music -- The classical "Netherlands" style and its internationalization -- French music of the Renaissance -- The Venetian school -- The Italo-Flemish style -- The final synthesis of polyphony -- Catholic reform and Counter Reformation -- Palestrina -- Changes in the musico-political situation -- Instruments and instrumental music. Types and forms of instrumental music -- German music in the late Renaissance -- The second period of the French Renaissance -- The Huguenots and their music -- Spain and its music during the Renaissance area -- The choral conductors of the Hispano-Flemish school -- Music in pre-Tudor England -- Early Tudor composers -- The Reformation in England -- The conflict of humanism, Renaissance, and Reformation. Its effect on music -- The Elizabethan and Jacobean school. Vocal music ; Instrumental music -- Aesthetic doctrines of the Renaissance -- Music in Renaissance life -- Repercussions of humanism, tendency toward the lyric stage. Various aspects of Renaissance musical practice -- The consequences of the Reform movements. Music in the universities -- Music in the new world -- |
| Contents | The baroque. The fading of the Renaissance -- Religious thought as the motive power of early Baroque art -- The changing artistical ideals -- Romanticism in the Baroque, the theater -- The relationship of drama to poetry and music -- The antecedents of the music drama -- The early music drama -- Monteverdi -- Sacred opera, oratorio, comic opera. Rome and Venice ; Later Seicento opera -- The new technique of composition and performance. The thorough bass, the orchestra, keyboard music -- Principles and types of instrumental music -- The Italian violin schools -- The vogue of the "Colossal Baroque." Catholic Church music -- Western Europe in the early seventeenth century -- Repercussions of the new political philosophy on arts and letters. The Louis XIV style -- Music in the Grand Siecle -- The fundamental opposition of French thought to opera -- Lute and harpsichord music -- The Thirty Years' War -- The musical Baroque in Germany -- Early Baroque opera in Germany -- New alignment of social forces -- English under the Stuarts, revolution and restoration -- The Baroque in other countries. The Netherlands ; Spain ; North America -- The late Baroque. Absolutism and the Enlightenment -- The philosophical background -- Musical thought of the Baroque. The doctrine of temperaments and affections ; Rationalism, irrationalism, symbolism ; Secularism, the ruling spirit of the late Baroque -- Opera in the late Baroque -- The Neapolitan school -- Italian opera in Germany -- Italian opera in England -- Catholic Church music in the late Baroque -- Religious and musical thought of the Protestant North -- Rapprochement of church music and opera -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque -- Johann Sebastian Bach. The choral works ; The instrumental works -- English music in the late Baroque. Handel. The oratorio -- Bach and Handel -- Rococo, style galant, Empfindsamkeit. The aftermath of Louis XIV's reign -- The drama of the Three Kings -- The rise of the rococo from the disintegrating Baroque -- Music of the French rococo -- Rameau -- Rousseau, the Buffoon War, the opera comique -- New aspects of opera seria and tragedie lyrique -- Enlightened absolutism -- The ideals of the Enlightenment and their effect on literature -- Music and the Enlightenment, the Berlin school -- Opera and Singspiel -- The relationship of musical theory and practice -- The antecedents of the preclassic symphony. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; Components of the sonata-symphony ; The Italian and Austrian schools ; The Mannheim school ; Further organization of the preclassic symphony ; Preclassic chamber music -- The classic era. The return of classic thought -- The classic orientation in arts and letters -- Haydn. Earlier works ; Later works -- Mozart. Instrumental works ; Theater and opera in the Classic Era ; Mozart's Italian operas ; Mozart and the Singspiel ; Mozart's operatic conceptions -- The peripheries of eighteenth-century music and its practice. Spain -- England -- America -- Eighteenth-century conception of vocal music. Protestant Church music ; Catholic Church music -- Eighteenth-century musical practice. The constructive role of the orchestra ; The art of performance -- The social aspects of eighteenth-century music -- Musical criticism and historiography -- Failure of the Enlightenment to produce an art of the people -- The confluence of classicism and romanticism. Classicism versus Romanticism -- The Romantic movement in Germany -- The Classic-Romantic in literature and its counterpart in music -- Beethoven. Life ; The earlier works ; The later works ; The Beethovenian style -- Schubert -- French opera during revolution, directoire, and empire -- Early romantic opera in Germany -- Romanticism. Aspects of Romanticism -- Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin -- Stylistic criticism of romantic music -- The grand opera -- Italian opera -- German opera -- From romanticism to realism. Realism as a philosophy of life -- The search for the all-embracing universal art -- Church music and the new symphonic-dramatic tendencies -- Berlioz -- Liszt -- Wagner -- The Gesamtkunstwerk -- Counter currents. Brahms -- Bizet -- Verdi -- The peripheries of nineteenth-century music and its practice. Germany -- France -- England -- America -- Nationalism in music -- Russia -- Bohemia -- Scandinavia -- Nineteenth-century musical practice -- Nineteenth-century musical thought. Theory ; Aesthetics ; Philosophy ; Science -- Musical criticism -- Musicology -- The road to the present. New notions of tonality -- Instrumental music -- Opera -- Dance music and operetta -- Church music -- The song -- The last stylistic synthesis of the century. Impressionism ; Impressionism in music ; "The decline of the West?" -- Notes. |
| Abstract | A comprehensive history of occidental music focuses on the function of music as an expression of the spirit and artistic life of each age. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 1045-1065) and index. |
| LCCN | 41009128 |
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