A history of Western music / Donald Jay Grout ; Claude V. Palisca.
| Author/creator | Grout, Donald Jay |
| Other author | Palisca, Claude V. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Fifth edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, ©1996. |
| Description | xvi, 862 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Musical life and thought in Ancient Greece and Rome. The Greek and Roman heritage ; Music in Ancient Greek life and thought ; The Greek musical system ; Greek music theory in depth ; Music in Ancient Rome ; The early Christian church ; Byzantine music in depth -- Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages. Roman chant and liturgy ; Classes, forms, and types of chant ; Later developments of the chant ; Medieval music theory and practice ; Nonliturgical and secular monody ; Medieval instrumental music and instruments -- The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century. Historical background of early polyphony ; Early organum ; Florid organum ; Notre Dame organum ; Polyphonic conductus ; The motet ; Thirteenth-century notation in depth ; Summary -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. General background ; The Ars Nova in France ; Italian Trecento music ; French music of the late fourteenth century ; Musica ficta ; Fourteenth-century notation in depth ; Instruments ; Summary -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century. English music ; Music in the Burgundian lands -- The age of the Renaissance: music of the low countries. General characteristics ; Northern composers and their music ; Josquin des Prez ; Some contemporaries of Obrecht and Josquin ; Summary -- New currents in the sixteenth century. The Franco-Flemish generation of 1520-1550 ; The rise of national styles ; The Italian madrigal ; Secular song outside Italy ; Instrumental music of the sixteenth century ; Summary -- Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation. The music of the Reformation in Germany ; Reformation music outside Germany ; The Counter-Reformation ; Summary -- |
| Contents | Music of the early Baroque period. General characteristics ; Early opera ; Vocal chamber music ; The Venetian school ; Genres of Catholic Church music ; Lutheran Church music ; Instrumental music -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century. Opera ; Vocal chamber music ; Church music -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque period. Organ music ; Harpsichord and clavichord music ; Ensemble music -- Music in the early eighteenth century. Antonio Vivaldi ; Jean-Philippe Rameau ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; Bach's instrumental music ; Bach's vocal music ; George Frideric Handel -- Sonata, symphony, and opera in the early classic period. The Enlightenment ; Musical rhetoric in depth ; Opera ; Comic opera ; Beginnings of opera reform ; Song and church music ; Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto ; Summary -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart. Franz Joseph Haydn ; Haydn's instrumental music ; Haydn's vocal works ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Mozart's Vienna years ; Epilogue -- Ludwig van Beethoven. The composer and his music ; First period ; Second period ; Third period -- Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music. Romanticism ; Orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century. The piano ; Music for piano ; Chamber music ; The Lied ; Choral music -- Opera and music drama in the ninteenth century. France ; Italy ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Germany ; Richard Wagner and the music drama -- European music from the 1870s to World War I. The German tradition ; Nationalism ; New currents in France ; Italian opera -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century. Introduction ; Ethnic contexts ; The Soviet orbit ; England ; Germany ; Latin America ; Neo-classicism in France ; Stravinsky -- Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe. Schoenberg and his followers ; After Webern ; Recent developments -- The American twentieth century. The historical background ; Vernacular music ; Foundations for an American art music ; Since 1945 ; Conclusions. |
| Abstract | This book has been recognized as the finest survey of Western art music since its first appearance in 1960. Setting the standard for all other music histories, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of students and connoisseurs with its thorough yet accessible overview of the field. Today's book remains the most authoritative and useful text available, providing readers with insights into the music and its historical context. In preparing this fifth edition, the author has applied the impeccable scholarship that made the book a classroom standard, while offering the most extensive revisions that the volume has yet seen. Page after page of the text has been rethought, rewritten, and newly conceived to bring it up to date and make it more readable, all without sacrificing the other author's erudition and narrative flow. Twentieth-century developments now receive the same attention dedicated to other eras, with modern American music covered in a substantial new chapter of its own. The book has been enriched by discussions of works composed by women and of women's role in music history. All new terms and concepts are explained when they are introduced, and composers' dates are supplied when the composers are first named. A glossary makes finding brief definitions a simple task. This book features an engaging new design, with elements that visually enhance the text. Headings, subheading, and marginal headings provide a clear and consistent outline. Judicious touches of color highlight chronologies, diagrams, and technical discussions, and dozens of vignettes offer the wisdom of composers and critics in their own words. Sixteen full-color plates and numerous black-and-white images illustrate specific musical points and show music making in its social context. In all, no effort has been spared to bring to today's teachers and students the best book ever. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDINGS AND SCORES WITH TITLE: Norton anthology of Western music. SEARCH BY TITLE OR BY CALL NUMBERS: [sound recordings] Music Media CD-3152 AND [scores] Music MT91.N67 1996. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95022577 |
| ISBN | 0393969045 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML160.G87 H5 1996 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |