An outline of the history of music / by Karl Nef ; translated by Carl F. Pfatteicher.
| Author/creator | Nef, Karl |
| Other author | Pfatteicher, Carl F. (Carl Friedrichs), 1882-1957, translator. |
| Other author | Rokseth, Yvonne, 1890-1948. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 1964, ©1935. |
| Description | xvi, 400 pages : illustrations (music) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia university studies in musicology ; no. 1 Columbia University studies in musicology ; no. 1. ^A1230145 |
| Contents | Part one: Monophonic music. Antiquity. The origins of music ; Music in ancient civilizations ; Music of the Greeks -- The Christian era. The spiritual music of the Middle Ages. Beginnings of church music ; Gregorian chant ; The spread and further development of the Gregorian chant -- Secular music of the Middle Ages. Troubadours and Trouvères ; Minnesingers ; Meistersingers -- Folk song ; Conclusion of the monophonic period -- Part two: Polyphonic music. The Ars antiqua and the Ars nova in the Middle Ages. Beginnings of polyphony: organum, discantus, fauxbourdon ; Development of polyphonic music in France and in England ; The Ars nova in France and Italy ; The supremacy of the Netherlanders in the fifteenth century. The style ; The older Netherlands school ; The younger, or second, Netherlands school -- The German Lied ; Music notation and music printing -- The sixteenth century. Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso ; The Roman school ; The Venetian school ; Protestant Church music. The German masters ; Composers of the Reformed church in France ; The French chanson ; The Spanish masters ; The Italian madrigal ; Elizabethan music in England ; The German madrigal ; Instrumental music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; Wandering minstrels and town pipers ; Bowed instruments ; The preeminence of the lute in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; Organ and clavier music in Germany, France, and Spain ; English Virginal music and the development of the variation form ; Venetian organ and orchestral music -- The seventeenth century. The birth of the opera, the oratorio, and the accompanied solo song ; The Florentine and the Roman Chorus Opera ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Venetian opera, Cavalli and Cesti ; Italian opera in Germany ; Italian oratorio, Carissimi and Stradella ; Italian church music ; French church music ; German church music, Heinrich Schütz ; Opera in France, Lully ; English opera, Henry Purcell ; Opera in Hamburg and the German Lied ; The orchestral suite ; The origin of the sonata and the concerto ; Music for keyboard instruments -- The eighteenth century. Scarlatti, Rameau, Handel, and Bach ; Neapolitan opera, Alessandro Scarlatti and his successors ; French opera, Rameau ; Handel and the oratorio ; Bach and religious music ; Church music in Italy ; Instrumental music in the first half of the eighteenth century ; Opera buffa and opéra comique ; Reform of the opera by Gluck ; The birth of the symphony. The Mannheim school ; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the North German school ; Joseph Haydn and the reform of the symphony. Mozart -- Mozart and the German opera -- The nineteenth century. Beethoven ; Italian opera ; French opera ; German opera ; The oratorio ; Church music ; The Lied ; Program music, Berlioz and Liszt ; The symphony and the piano music of the Romanticists ; National schools ; Brahms, Germany in recent times ; Instrumental music in France ; Music in Italy, Spain, England, and America -- The twentieth century. Present tendencies in music. |
| Abstract | This series inaugurated by the Columbia University Press is intended to meet the needs of the English-speaking student for the crystallization of various phases of musical knowledge around which the rapidly expanding material may be oriented. The choice of the first volume of the series was dictated by the desire to provide an introductory manual which would be of interest to the beginner in musical history, since a scholarly view of the development of the art must be the foundation of scholarly research into special problems. This book by the late author is such a work. |
| General note | Translated and enlarged from the second German edition; also from the second French edition (edited by Yvonne Rokseth). |
| General note | Includes music examples. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML160 .N342 1964 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |