A history of western music / J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca.

Author/creator Grout, Donald Jay author.
Other author Grout, Donald Jay.
Other author Palisca, Claude V., author.
Format Book
EditionEighth edition.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Descriptionxxxiv, 986 pages, 129 pages : illustrations, music (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Guide to recordings -- Part one: the ancient and medieval worlds. Music in antiquity. The earliest music -- Music in ancient Mesopotamia -- Timeline -- Music in Ancient Greek life and thought -- Music in Ancient Rome -- The Greek heritage -- The Christian Church in the first millennium. The diffusion of Christianity -- The Judaic heritage -- Music in the early church -- Divisions in the church and dialects of chant -- Timeline -- The development of notation -- Music in context: in the monastic Scriptorum -- Music theory in practice -- Echoes of history -- Roman liturgy and chant. The Roman liturgy -- Music in context: the experience of the mass -- Characteristics of chant -- Timeline -- Genres and forms of chant -- Additions to the authorized chant -- Hildegard of Bingen -- The continuing presence of chant -- Song and dance music in the Middle Ages. European society, 800-1800 -- Latin and vernacular song -- Timeline -- Troubadour and trouvere song -- Forms at a glance: AAB -- Song in other lands -- Medieval instruments -- Dance music -- The lover's complaint -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century. Early organum -- Aquitanian polyphony -- Notre Dame polyphony -- Timeline -- Polyphonic conductus -- Motet -- English polyphony -- Polyphonic tradition -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. European society in the fourteenth century -- The Ars nova in France -- Innovations: writing rhythm -- Guillaume de Machaut -- Forms at a glance: the formes fixes -- The Ars subtilior -- Timeline -- Italian trecento music -- Fourteenth-century music in performance -- Echoes of the new art -- Part two: the Renaissance. Music and the Renaissance. Europe from 1400 to 1600 -- Timeline -- The Renaissance in culture and art -- Music in the Renaissance -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Innovations: music printing -- The legacy of the Renaissance -- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century. English music -- Timeline -- Music in the Burgundian lands -- Guillaume Du Fay -- The polyphonic mass -- Music in context: masses and dragons -- An enduring musical language -- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520. Political change and consolidation -- Ockeghem and Busnoys -- The next generation -- Timeline -- Josquin des Prez -- Forms at a glance: types of mass -- Old and new -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation. The Reformation -- Music in the Lutheran church -- Timeline -- Music in Calvinist churches -- Church music in England -- Catholic church music -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Spain and the new world -- Germany and Eastern Europe -- Jewish music -- The legacy of sixteenth-century sacred music -- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century. The first market for music -- Spain -- Italy -- Timeline -- The Italian madrigal -- France -- Germany -- England -- The madrigal and its impact -- The rise of instrumental music. Instruments -- Types of instrumental music -- Music in context: social dance -- Timeline -- Music in Venice -- Instrumental music gains independence -- Part three: the seventeenth century. New styles in the seventeenth century. Europe in the seventeenth century -- Timeline -- From Renaissance to Baroque -- General characteristics of Baroque music -- Enduring innovations -- The invention of opera. Forerunners of opera -- The first operas -- Claudio Monteverdi -- The spread of Italian opera -- Innovations: the operatic diva -- Opera as drama and as theater -- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century. Italian vocal chamber music -- Catholic sacred music -- Timeline -- Lutheran church music -- Jewish music -- Instrumental music -- Tradition and innovation -- France, England, Spain and the New World in the seventeenth century. The French Baroque -- Music in context: the music of the great stable -- Timeline -- The English Baroque -- Spain and the New World -- French style and national traditions -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century. Italy -- Forms at a glance: da capo aria -- Timeline -- Music in context: the violin workshop of Antonio Stradivarius -- Germany and Austria -- Seeds for the future -- Part four: the eighteenth century. The early eighteenth century in Italy and France. Europe in a century of change -- Music in Italy -- Timeline -- Music in context: the voice of Farinelli -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Music in France -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- A volatile public -- German composers of the late Baroque. Contexts for music -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Timeline -- George Frideric Handel -- An enduring legacy -- Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment. Europe in the Enlightenment -- Innovations: the public concert -- Musical taste and style -- Timeline -- The enduring Enlightenment -- Opera and vocal music in the early classic period. Italian comic opera -- Timeline -- Opera seria -- Opera in other languages -- Opera reform -- Song and church music -- Opera and the new language -- Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury. Instruments and ensembles -- Genres and forms -- Forms at a glance: binary form and its relatives -- Keyboard music -- Timeline -- Orchestral music -- The singing instrument -- Classical music in the late eighteenth century. Joseph Haydn -- Timeline -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Classic music -- Part five: the nineteenth century. Revolution and change. Revolution, war, and music, 1789-1815 -- Timeline -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Beethoven's centrality -- The Romantic generation: song and piano music. The new order, 1815-1848 -- Innovations: musical instruments in the Industrial Revolution -- Romanticism -- Timeline -- Song -- Music for piano -- The romantic legacy -- Romanticism in classic forms: orchestral, chamber, and choral music. Orchestral music -- Timeline -- Chamber music -- Choral music -- Romanticism and the classical tradition -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury. The roles of opera -- Italy -- Timeline -- France -- Germany -- Russia -- The United States -- Opera as high culture -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century. Technology, politics, and the arts -- Opera -- Richard Wagner -- Music in context: Wagner, nationalism, and anti-Semitism -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Later Italian composers -- Timeline -- France -- Russia -- Other nations -- Music for the stage and its audience -- Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria. Dichotomies and disputes -- Timeline -- Johannes Brahms -- The Wagnerians -- Reaching for the audience -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century. France -- Eastern and Northern Europe -- Timeline -- The United States -- Reception and recognition -- Part six: the twentieth century and after. The early twentieth century. Modern times, 1898-1918 -- Innovations: recorded sound -- Vernacular musical traditions -- Timeline -- Modern music in the classical tradition -- Germany and Austria -- Claude Debussy -- The first modern generation -- The avant-garde -- Late romantic or modern? -- Modernism and the classical tradition. Arnold Schoenberg -- Timeline -- Music in context: expressionism -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Igor Stravinsky -- Bela Bartok -- Charles Ives -- Composer and audience -- Between the World Wars: jazz and popular music. Between the Wars -- Timeline -- American musical theater and popular song -- The jazz age -- Duke Ellington -- Film music -- Mass media and popular music -- Between the World Wars: the classical tradition. Music, politics, and the people -- Timeline -- France -- Germany -- The Soviet Union -- The Americas -- The United States -- What politics? -- Postwar crosscurrents. The Cold War and the splintering tradition -- Popular music -- Broadway and film music -- Timeline -- From bebop to free jazz -- Heirs to the classical tradition -- Traditional media -- Cage and the avant-garde -- Serialism -- The new virtuosity -- New sounds and textures -- Quotation and collage -- Band and wind ensemble music -- Roll over, Beethoven -- Music since 1970. A global culture -- Timeline -- The changing world of music -- Music in context: digital technologies -- Niches in popular music -- Minimalism and postminimalism -- The new accessibility -- Interactions with non-Western musics -- What next?
Abstract The narrative of this book naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring and significant--but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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