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245 10 a| Music in western civilization /c| Craig Wright, Bryan Simms.;

300 a| xxix, 832 pages :b| illustrations (some color), music ;c| 28 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-790) and index.;

505 0 a| Part 1. Antiquity and the middle ages. Music in Ancient Greece. Music in Greek society ; The nature of Greek music ; Music in Greek philosophy ; Greek music theory -- Antiquity to the middle ages: music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the early Christian world. Rome ; Jerusalem and the rise of early Christian music -- Music in the monastery and convent. The monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland ; The canonical hours: the work of the Lord ; Gregorian chant in the monastery ; Gregorian chant for Vespers ; Gregorian chant for the Mass -- Music theory in the monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo. The eight church modes ; Chant notation ; Musical staff and pitch names ; Hexachords ; The Guidonian hand -- Later medieval chant: tropes, sequences, and the liturgical drama of Hildegard of Bingen. Tropes ; Sequences ; Music in the convent: the chant and liturgical drama of Hildegard of Bingen -- Troubadours and Trouvères. The Court of Eleanor of Aquitane ; Trouvères -- Early polyphony. Organum in music theory sources ; Organum in practical sources -- Music in medieval praise: polyphony at Notre Dame. Notre Dame of Paris ; Leoninus and the Magnus liber organi ; Perotinus the Great -- Music in the cathedral close and university: conducts and motet. Conductus ; Motet -- In the Parisian master's study: music theory of the Ars antiqua and Ars nova. Franco of Cologne and the Art of Measured Song ; Jean des Murs and Philippe de Vitry: The Ars nova -- Music at the Court of the French kings. The Roman de Fauvel ; Philippe de Vitry ; Royal dances ; Musical instruments at Court and in church -- Fourteenth-century music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut. Machaut, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years' War ; Machaut and the Formes fixes ; Machaut and the Mass of Our Lady -- Avignon, symbolic scores, and the Ars subtilior. Papal Avignon ; Baude Cordier and symbolic scores ; Philippus de Caserta: the Ars subtilior -- Part 2. The late middle ages and early renaissance. Music in Florence, 1350-1450. Trecento music and the Squarcialupi Codex ; Francesco Landini -- Music at the Cathedral of Florence -- Music in England. Rondellus and Rota ; English Faburden and Continental Fauxbourdon ; King Henry V: the Old Hall Manuscript and the Carol ; John Dunstaple and the Contenance Angloise -- Music at the Court of Burgundy. Gilles Binchois and the Burgundian Chanson ; Guillaume Dufay: a lament and a mass for the Christian soldier -- Music at the French royals Court. Johannes Ockeghem and musical canons ; A musical joke for the French king ; Philippe Basiron and the paraphrase motet ; Antoine Busnoys and the imitative chanson -- Music in the low countries. Jacob Obrecht and the multiple cantus firmus mass ; Musical instruments ; The basse danse -- Part 3. The late renaissance. Popular music in Florence, 1475-1540: carnival song and lauda, frottola, and early madrigal. The carnival song and the lauda ; The frottola ; The early madrigal in Florence -- Josquin des Prez and music in Ferrara. Josquin des Prez ; Josquin's music for Duke Hercules of Ferrara ; Josquin and an artist's temperament -- Music in renaissance Paris. The Parisian chanson ; Claudin de Sermisy ; Instrumental arrangements ; Dance music -- Renaissance instruments and instrumental music. Keyboard instruments ; String instruments ; Wind instruments ; Instrumental genres -- Music in three German cities: the Protestant-Catholic confrontation. Innsbruck: music under Emperor Maximilian I ; The Reformation: music in Ausburg ; Orlande de Lassus and the Court of Munich ; Epilogue: the psalter in other Protestant countries -- Rome and the music of the Counter-Reformation. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; Spanish music during the Counter-Reformation -- Music in Elizabethan England: early vocal music. Henry VIII as musician and church reformer ; Thomas Tallis and the English psalm ; William Byrd and the English anthem -- Music in Elizabethan England: instrumental music and later vocal music. English keyboard music ; The English madrigal ; The English lute ayre -- The later madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi. The madrigal in Ferrara ; Carlo Gesualdo ; Music in Mantua: Isabella d'Este ; Claudio Monteverdi -- Part 4. Baroque music. Early baroque music. Characteristics of early baroque music -- The birth of opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice. Early opera in Florence ; Early opera in Mantua: Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Early opera in Venice -- The concerted style in Venice and Dresden. Giovanni Gabrieli and the concerted motet ; Claudio Monteverdi and the concerted madrigal ; Barbara Strozzi and the early baroque cantata ; The concerted style moves north: Heinrich Schutz in Dresden -- Religious music in baroque Rome. The Cappella Pontificia Sistina and the Stile antico ; St. Peter's Basilica and the colossal baroque ; Organ music by Girolamo Frescobaldi ; Sacred opera and oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi's Jepthe ; The chamber cantata: a Christmas cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti -- Instrumental music in Italy. The violin family ; Formation of the baroque orchestra ; Church and chamber music ; Salomone Rossi and the early baroque sonata ; Arcangelo Corelli: solo sonata and trio sonata ; Trumpet music by Giuseppe Torelli: the beginnings of the solo concerto ; Antonio Vivaldi: solo concerto and concerto grosso -- Instrumental music in Germany and Austria. Johann Froberger and the baroque dance suite ; Biber and Kuhnau: the programmatic sonata ; Dietrich Buxtehude and the North German organ tradition ; Johann Pachelbel and the South German tradition -- Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: vocal music. Ballet de cour ; Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tragedie lyrique ; Religious music ; Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and the Cantate francaise -- Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: instrumental music. The Gaultiers: French lute music ; The Couperins: French harpsichord music -- Music in London: Henry Purcell. Henry Purcell and theater music ; Purcell's odes and funeral music for Queen Mary -- Music in London: George Frederic Handel. Handel and the dance suite ; Handel and opera ; Handel and oratorio -- Johann Sebastian Bach: instrumental music in Weimar and Cothen. Bach in Weimar: the organ music ; Bach in Cothen: chamber and orchestral music -- Johann Sebastian Bach: vocal music in Leipzig. The Lutheran chorale cantata ; Bach's later musical projects --;

505 0 a| Part 5. The enlightenment and the classical era. Music in the age of enlightenment: opera. Music of the establishment: enlightenment opera seria ; Music and social change: comic opera ; The reform operas of Gluck -- Music in the age of enlightenment: orchestral music. Public concerts ; The early symphony: Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Milan ; The rise of orchestral discipline: Johann Stamitz in Mannheim -- Music in the age of enlightenment: keyboard music. Domestic keyboard music for women ; The advent of the piano ; Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid ; The clavichord in Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; The piano in London: Johann Christian Bach -- Classical music in Vienna. Classical style ; Classical forms ; Classical genres ; The classical orchestra ; Classical composers -- Joseph Haydn: instrumental music. The life of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ; Haydn's early and middle symphonies ; Haydn's string quartets ; Haydn's sonatas and concertos -- Joseph Haydn: late symphonies and vocal music. The Paris Symphonies ; The London Symphonies ; The late vocal music -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: instrumental music. The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ; Symphonies ; Chamber music ; Piano and violin sonatas ; Concertos -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: vocal music. Requiem Mass -- The early music of Beethoven. Years of apprenticeship: 1770-1792 ; Beethoven's world in 1792 ; Vienna: 1792-1802 ; Piano music and the "Pathetique" Sonata ; Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major ; The onset of deafness -- Beethoven's Middle Period: 1802-1814. Beethoven's life and music during the Middle Period ; Beethoven's symphonies: new paths ; The opera Fidelio ; Affairs of the heart: the Immortal Beloved -- After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven's late music. Music at the Congress of Vienna ; Beethoven's life and works in his Late Period ; Beethoven's death and funeral -- Part 6. The romantic period. Franz Schubert. Schubert's life ; Schubert's works: music for voices ; Chamber, piano, and orchestral compositions ; Schubert's songs -- Music in Paris under Louis Philippe: Berlioz and Chopin. Musical culture in Paris ; Hector Berlioz ; Frederic Chopin -- Leipzig and the Gewandhaus: Felix Mendelssohn and the Schumanns. Music in Saxony ; Felix Mendelssohn: life and music ; Robert Schumann ; Clara Schumann -- German opera of the 19th century: Weber and Wagner. Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Wagner's music and theories of opera ; Das Rheingold -- Opera in Italy: Rossini and Verdi. Gioachino Rossini ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Verdi and the Risorgimento ; Verdi and Wagner -- Nationalism and virtuosity: Franz Liszt. Liszt's life and works ; Liszt and the piano ; Liszt, Wagner, and the new German school ; Music for orchestra: the symphonic poem -- Vienna in the late 19th century: Brahms and Bruckner. Vienna in the 1860s ; Brahm's life and works ; Brahms's vocal music ; Anton Bruckner -- Music and ballet in 19th century Russia: Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. St. Petersburg in the late nineteenth century ; The Kuchka ; Modest Mussorgsky ; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Ballet ; Ballet in Russia: The Nutcracker -- Vienna at the turn of the 20th century: Gustav and Alma Mahler. Mahler's life ; Mahler's songs ; Mahler's symphonies ; Alma Mahler: musician and muse -- England at the end of the romantic period: Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The English choir festivals ; Edward Elgar ; English music after Elgar: Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Opera in Milan after Verdi: Puccini, Toscanini, and Verismo. The opera business ; Innovations at La Scala ; Arturo Toscanini ; Puccini at La Scala ; Verismo opera -- Paris in the Belle Époque: Debussy, Faure, and Lili Boulanger. New poetry ; Impressionism in painting ; New realities: Claude Debussy ; Harmonic chemistry in Debussy's piano music ; Debussy's orchestral music ; Gabriel Faure ; The spread of Debussyism: Lili Boulanger -- Part 7. The early 20th century. Richard Strauss in Berlin. Berlin ; Richard Strauss ; Music of the opera ; Strauss and "Progress" -- Music in Russia during the Silver Age: Igor Stravinsky. Realism in Russian art and literature ; Music during the Silver Age ; Sergei Diaghilev and The World of Art ; The Ballets Russes ; Igor Stravinsky ; The Russian Revolution -- Atonality: Schoenberg and Scriabin. New music and abstract art ; Arnold Schoenberg ; The atonal style ; The evolution of Schoenberg's atonal style ; Other atonalists: Alexander Scriabin -- French music at the time of WWI: Ravel and Satie. Maurice Ravel ; Erik Satie ; World War I -- New music in Paris after WWI: Stravinsky and The Six. Musical life in Paris ; Regaining control ; Igor Stravinsky and the neoclassical style ; Darius Milhaud and "The Six" -- Vienna in the aftermath of war: twelve-tone methods. Austria after 1918 ; Organizing the twelve tones ; Schoenberg's twelve-tone method ; Anton Webern -- Musical theatre in Germany in the 1920s: Berg and Weill. Georg Büchner ; Alban Berg's Wozzeck ; Kurt Weill -- Béla Bartók and Hungarian folk music. Béla Bartók ; Hungarian peasant music ; Bartók's use of folk music -- Early jazz. The sources of early jazz: ragtime ; Blues ; Popular songs ; Dance music -- Paul Hindemith and music in Nazi Germany. Musical life under the Nazis ; Hindemith's life and works ; Hindemith's theory of the twelve tones -- Music in Soviet Russia: Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Sergei Prokofiev ; Musical culture in the Soviet Union ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Early works and successes ; Later works and controversies -- Self-reliance in American music: Ives, Seeger, Nancarrow. Music in colonial America ; Nineteenth-century developments ; Charles Ives ; Aesthetics ; Ive's music: vocal works ; Ive's instrumental music: The Unanswered Question ; Later figures: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Conlon Nancarrow -- American composers return from Europe: Copland and Barber. Copland's life and music ; The formation of a style ; Samuel Barber ; Barber's life and works -- Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway musical. The popular song business ; George Gershwin ; The Broadway musical ; Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! ; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story ; Musicals of the 1960s and beyond -- Part 8. Contemporary music. Reflections on war: Britten, Penderecki, and others. Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen ; Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw ; Benjamin Britten and the War Requiem ; Krzystof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima -- Twelve-tone music and serialism after WWII. The twelve-tone revival ; Milton Babbitt and "total serialism" ; Igor Stravinsky, Agon ; Pierre Boulez, Le marteau sans maître ; The waning of the twelve-tone method -- Alternative to serialism: chance, electronics, textures. Chance music: John Cage ; Electronic music: Edgard Varèse ; New musical textures: Olivier Messiaen -- Harlem in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s: big bands, bebop, and cool jazz. Jazz in Harlem ; The big bands: Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington ; Bebop ; Cool and free jazz -- Music in the 1960s and 1970s: live processes, minimalism, metric modulations. New uses of the voice: Luciano Berio and George Crumb ; Elliott Carter ; Minimalism: Steve Reich -- Returning to the known: music of the recent past. Mixing styles: György Ligeti ; The transformation of minimalism: John Adams ; Reviving the recent past: Joan Tower ; The renaissance reborn: Arvo Pärt ; Music in the twenty-first century.;

520 a| Clear and easy-to-understand, this music text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in this course. With a focus on the history of music in the wider context of Western civilization, you will see how study of music history is important to the practice and performance of music today. Numerous full-color photographs, maps, and timelines give you a sense of the place of music within the arts and humanities in the West. Class preparation is made easy with the book-specific website that contains features such as additional musical selections, a music glossary, unit resources, and more.;

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Music in western civilization / Craig Wright, Bryan Simms.

Author/creator	Wright, Craig M.
Other author	Simms, Bryan R., author.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Belmont, CA : Thomson/Schirmer, ©2006.
Description	xxix, 832 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 28 cm
Subjects	Music--History and criticism.

Contents	Part 1. Antiquity and the middle ages. Music in Ancient Greece. Music in Greek society ; The nature of Greek music ; Music in Greek philosophy ; Greek music theory -- Antiquity to the middle ages: music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the early Christian world. Rome ; Jerusalem and the rise of early Christian music -- Music in the monastery and convent. The monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland ; The canonical hours: the work of the Lord ; Gregorian chant in the monastery ; Gregorian chant for Vespers ; Gregorian chant for the Mass -- Music theory in the monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo. The eight church modes ; Chant notation ; Musical staff and pitch names ; Hexachords ; The Guidonian hand -- Later medieval chant: tropes, sequences, and the liturgical drama of Hildegard of Bingen. Tropes ; Sequences ; Music in the convent: the chant and liturgical drama of Hildegard of Bingen -- Troubadours and Trouvères. The Court of Eleanor of Aquitane ; Trouvères -- Early polyphony. Organum in music theory sources ; Organum in practical sources -- Music in medieval praise: polyphony at Notre Dame. Notre Dame of Paris ; Leoninus and the Magnus liber organi ; Perotinus the Great -- Music in the cathedral close and university: conducts and motet. Conductus ; Motet -- In the Parisian master's study: music theory of the Ars antiqua and Ars nova. Franco of Cologne and the Art of Measured Song ; Jean des Murs and Philippe de Vitry: The Ars nova -- Music at the Court of the French kings. The Roman de Fauvel ; Philippe de Vitry ; Royal dances ; Musical instruments at Court and in church -- Fourteenth-century music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut. Machaut, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years' War ; Machaut and the Formes fixes ; Machaut and the Mass of Our Lady -- Avignon, symbolic scores, and the Ars subtilior. Papal Avignon ; Baude Cordier and symbolic scores ; Philippus de Caserta: the Ars subtilior -- Part 2. The late middle ages and early renaissance. Music in Florence, 1350-1450. Trecento music and the Squarcialupi Codex ; Francesco Landini -- Music at the Cathedral of Florence -- Music in England. Rondellus and Rota ; English Faburden and Continental Fauxbourdon ; King Henry V: the Old Hall Manuscript and the Carol ; John Dunstaple and the Contenance Angloise -- Music at the Court of Burgundy. Gilles Binchois and the Burgundian Chanson ; Guillaume Dufay: a lament and a mass for the Christian soldier -- Music at the French royals Court. Johannes Ockeghem and musical canons ; A musical joke for the French king ; Philippe Basiron and the paraphrase motet ; Antoine Busnoys and the imitative chanson -- Music in the low countries. Jacob Obrecht and the multiple cantus firmus mass ; Musical instruments ; The basse danse -- Part 3. The late renaissance. Popular music in Florence, 1475-1540: carnival song and lauda, frottola, and early madrigal. The carnival song and the lauda ; The frottola ; The early madrigal in Florence -- Josquin des Prez and music in Ferrara. Josquin des Prez ; Josquin's music for Duke Hercules of Ferrara ; Josquin and an artist's temperament -- Music in renaissance Paris. The Parisian chanson ; Claudin de Sermisy ; Instrumental arrangements ; Dance music -- Renaissance instruments and instrumental music. Keyboard instruments ; String instruments ; Wind instruments ; Instrumental genres -- Music in three German cities: the Protestant-Catholic confrontation. Innsbruck: music under Emperor Maximilian I ; The Reformation: music in Ausburg ; Orlande de Lassus and the Court of Munich ; Epilogue: the psalter in other Protestant countries -- Rome and the music of the Counter-Reformation. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; Spanish music during the Counter-Reformation -- Music in Elizabethan England: early vocal music. Henry VIII as musician and church reformer ; Thomas Tallis and the English psalm ; William Byrd and the English anthem -- Music in Elizabethan England: instrumental music and later vocal music. English keyboard music ; The English madrigal ; The English lute ayre -- The later madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi. The madrigal in Ferrara ; Carlo Gesualdo ; Music in Mantua: Isabella d'Este ; Claudio Monteverdi -- Part 4. Baroque music. Early baroque music. Characteristics of early baroque music -- The birth of opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice. Early opera in Florence ; Early opera in Mantua: Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Early opera in Venice -- The concerted style in Venice and Dresden. Giovanni Gabrieli and the concerted motet ; Claudio Monteverdi and the concerted madrigal ; Barbara Strozzi and the early baroque cantata ; The concerted style moves north: Heinrich Schutz in Dresden -- Religious music in baroque Rome. The Cappella Pontificia Sistina and the Stile antico ; St. Peter's Basilica and the colossal baroque ; Organ music by Girolamo Frescobaldi ; Sacred opera and oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi's Jepthe ; The chamber cantata: a Christmas cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti -- Instrumental music in Italy. The violin family ; Formation of the baroque orchestra ; Church and chamber music ; Salomone Rossi and the early baroque sonata ; Arcangelo Corelli: solo sonata and trio sonata ; Trumpet music by Giuseppe Torelli: the beginnings of the solo concerto ; Antonio Vivaldi: solo concerto and concerto grosso -- Instrumental music in Germany and Austria. Johann Froberger and the baroque dance suite ; Biber and Kuhnau: the programmatic sonata ; Dietrich Buxtehude and the North German organ tradition ; Johann Pachelbel and the South German tradition -- Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: vocal music. Ballet de cour ; Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tragedie lyrique ; Religious music ; Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and the Cantate francaise -- Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: instrumental music. The Gaultiers: French lute music ; The Couperins: French harpsichord music -- Music in London: Henry Purcell. Henry Purcell and theater music ; Purcell's odes and funeral music for Queen Mary -- Music in London: George Frederic Handel. Handel and the dance suite ; Handel and opera ; Handel and oratorio -- Johann Sebastian Bach: instrumental music in Weimar and Cothen. Bach in Weimar: the organ music ; Bach in Cothen: chamber and orchestral music -- Johann Sebastian Bach: vocal music in Leipzig. The Lutheran chorale cantata ; Bach's later musical projects --
Contents	Part 5. The enlightenment and the classical era. Music in the age of enlightenment: opera. Music of the establishment: enlightenment opera seria ; Music and social change: comic opera ; The reform operas of Gluck -- Music in the age of enlightenment: orchestral music. Public concerts ; The early symphony: Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Milan ; The rise of orchestral discipline: Johann Stamitz in Mannheim -- Music in the age of enlightenment: keyboard music. Domestic keyboard music for women ; The advent of the piano ; Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid ; The clavichord in Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; The piano in London: Johann Christian Bach -- Classical music in Vienna. Classical style ; Classical forms ; Classical genres ; The classical orchestra ; Classical composers -- Joseph Haydn: instrumental music. The life of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ; Haydn's early and middle symphonies ; Haydn's string quartets ; Haydn's sonatas and concertos -- Joseph Haydn: late symphonies and vocal music. The Paris Symphonies ; The London Symphonies ; The late vocal music -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: instrumental music. The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ; Symphonies ; Chamber music ; Piano and violin sonatas ; Concertos -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: vocal music. Requiem Mass -- The early music of Beethoven. Years of apprenticeship: 1770-1792 ; Beethoven's world in 1792 ; Vienna: 1792-1802 ; Piano music and the "Pathetique" Sonata ; Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major ; The onset of deafness -- Beethoven's Middle Period: 1802-1814. Beethoven's life and music during the Middle Period ; Beethoven's symphonies: new paths ; The opera Fidelio ; Affairs of the heart: the Immortal Beloved -- After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven's late music. Music at the Congress of Vienna ; Beethoven's life and works in his Late Period ; Beethoven's death and funeral -- Part 6. The romantic period. Franz Schubert. Schubert's life ; Schubert's works: music for voices ; Chamber, piano, and orchestral compositions ; Schubert's songs -- Music in Paris under Louis Philippe: Berlioz and Chopin. Musical culture in Paris ; Hector Berlioz ; Frederic Chopin -- Leipzig and the Gewandhaus: Felix Mendelssohn and the Schumanns. Music in Saxony ; Felix Mendelssohn: life and music ; Robert Schumann ; Clara Schumann -- German opera of the 19th century: Weber and Wagner. Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Wagner's music and theories of opera ; Das Rheingold -- Opera in Italy: Rossini and Verdi. Gioachino Rossini ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Verdi and the Risorgimento ; Verdi and Wagner -- Nationalism and virtuosity: Franz Liszt. Liszt's life and works ; Liszt and the piano ; Liszt, Wagner, and the new German school ; Music for orchestra: the symphonic poem -- Vienna in the late 19th century: Brahms and Bruckner. Vienna in the 1860s ; Brahm's life and works ; Brahms's vocal music ; Anton Bruckner -- Music and ballet in 19th century Russia: Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. St. Petersburg in the late nineteenth century ; The Kuchka ; Modest Mussorgsky ; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Ballet ; Ballet in Russia: The Nutcracker -- Vienna at the turn of the 20th century: Gustav and Alma Mahler. Mahler's life ; Mahler's songs ; Mahler's symphonies ; Alma Mahler: musician and muse -- England at the end of the romantic period: Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The English choir festivals ; Edward Elgar ; English music after Elgar: Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Opera in Milan after Verdi: Puccini, Toscanini, and Verismo. The opera business ; Innovations at La Scala ; Arturo Toscanini ; Puccini at La Scala ; Verismo opera -- Paris in the Belle Époque: Debussy, Faure, and Lili Boulanger. New poetry ; Impressionism in painting ; New realities: Claude Debussy ; Harmonic chemistry in Debussy's piano music ; Debussy's orchestral music ; Gabriel Faure ; The spread of Debussyism: Lili Boulanger -- Part 7. The early 20th century. Richard Strauss in Berlin. Berlin ; Richard Strauss ; Music of the opera ; Strauss and "Progress" -- Music in Russia during the Silver Age: Igor Stravinsky. Realism in Russian art and literature ; Music during the Silver Age ; Sergei Diaghilev and The World of Art ; The Ballets Russes ; Igor Stravinsky ; The Russian Revolution -- Atonality: Schoenberg and Scriabin. New music and abstract art ; Arnold Schoenberg ; The atonal style ; The evolution of Schoenberg's atonal style ; Other atonalists: Alexander Scriabin -- French music at the time of WWI: Ravel and Satie. Maurice Ravel ; Erik Satie ; World War I -- New music in Paris after WWI: Stravinsky and The Six. Musical life in Paris ; Regaining control ; Igor Stravinsky and the neoclassical style ; Darius Milhaud and "The Six" -- Vienna in the aftermath of war: twelve-tone methods. Austria after 1918 ; Organizing the twelve tones ; Schoenberg's twelve-tone method ; Anton Webern -- Musical theatre in Germany in the 1920s: Berg and Weill. Georg Büchner ; Alban Berg's Wozzeck ; Kurt Weill -- Béla Bartók and Hungarian folk music. Béla Bartók ; Hungarian peasant music ; Bartók's use of folk music -- Early jazz. The sources of early jazz: ragtime ; Blues ; Popular songs ; Dance music -- Paul Hindemith and music in Nazi Germany. Musical life under the Nazis ; Hindemith's life and works ; Hindemith's theory of the twelve tones -- Music in Soviet Russia: Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Sergei Prokofiev ; Musical culture in the Soviet Union ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Early works and successes ; Later works and controversies -- Self-reliance in American music: Ives, Seeger, Nancarrow. Music in colonial America ; Nineteenth-century developments ; Charles Ives ; Aesthetics ; Ive's music: vocal works ; Ive's instrumental music: The Unanswered Question ; Later figures: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Conlon Nancarrow -- American composers return from Europe: Copland and Barber. Copland's life and music ; The formation of a style ; Samuel Barber ; Barber's life and works -- Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway musical. The popular song business ; George Gershwin ; The Broadway musical ; Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! ; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story ; Musicals of the 1960s and beyond -- Part 8. Contemporary music. Reflections on war: Britten, Penderecki, and others. Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen ; Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw ; Benjamin Britten and the War Requiem ; Krzystof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima -- Twelve-tone music and serialism after WWII. The twelve-tone revival ; Milton Babbitt and "total serialism" ; Igor Stravinsky, Agon ; Pierre Boulez, Le marteau sans maître ; The waning of the twelve-tone method -- Alternative to serialism: chance, electronics, textures. Chance music: John Cage ; Electronic music: Edgard Varèse ; New musical textures: Olivier Messiaen -- Harlem in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s: big bands, bebop, and cool jazz. Jazz in Harlem ; The big bands: Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington ; Bebop ; Cool and free jazz -- Music in the 1960s and 1970s: live processes, minimalism, metric modulations. New uses of the voice: Luciano Berio and George Crumb ; Elliott Carter ; Minimalism: Steve Reich -- Returning to the known: music of the recent past. Mixing styles: György Ligeti ; The transformation of minimalism: John Adams ; Reviving the recent past: Joan Tower ; The renaissance reborn: Arvo Pärt ; Music in the twenty-first century.
Abstract	Clear and easy-to-understand, this music text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in this course. With a focus on the history of music in the wider context of Western civilization, you will see how study of music history is important to the practice and performance of music today. Numerous full-color photographs, maps, and timelines give you a sense of the place of music within the arts and humanities in the West. Class preparation is made easy with the book-specific website that contains features such as additional musical selections, a music glossary, unit resources, and more.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-790) and index.
LCCN	2005544521
ISBN	0534619622
ISBN	9780534619626
ISBN	0495008656 (v. 1)
ISBN	9780495008651 (v. 1)
ISBN	0495008664 (v. 2)
ISBN	9780495008668 (v. 2)
ISBN	0495006297
ISBN	9780495006299

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