A history of western music / Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca.
| Author/creator | Grout, Donald Jay |
| Other author | Palisca, Claude V. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Sixth edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2001. |
| Description | xvi, 843 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Musical life and thought in Ancient Greece and Rome. The Greek and Roman heritage ; Timeline: Greece and Rome ; 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 ; Timeline: the early Christian church -- 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 ; Timeline: early polyphony ; Polyphonic conductus ; The motet ; Thirteenth-century notation in depth -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. General background ; Timeline: fourteenth-century France and Italy ; 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 ; Timeline: the fifteenth century -- The age of the Renaissance: music of the low countries. General characteristics ; Timeline: the sixteenth century ; 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 (1520-50) ; The rise of national styles ; The Italian madrigal ; Secular song outside Italy ; Instrumental music of the sixteenth century -- Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation. The music of the Reformation in Germany ; Reformation church music outside Germany ; Timeline: events affecting English church music, 1530-1660 ; The Counter-Reformation ; Summary -- |
| Contents | Music of the early Baroque period. General characteristics ; Early opera ; Timeline: early Baroque ; Vocal chamber music ; Venice ; 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 ; Timeline: the later seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the late Baroque period. Organ music ; Harpsichord and clavichord music ; Ensemble music -- Music in the early eighteenth century. Antonio Vivaldi ; Timeline: the early eighteenth century ; 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 ; Timeline: the Enlightenment and the early Classic period ; 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 ; Timeline: Romanticism and the nineteenth century ; 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 nineteenth century. Italy ; France ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Germany ; Richard Wagner and the music drama -- European music from the 1870s to World War I. The German tradition ; National trends ; New currents in France ; Italian opera -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century. Introduction ; Timeline: early twentieth century ; Ethnic contexts ; The Soviet orbit ; England ; Germany ; Latin American ; 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 ; Timeline: World War II and after ; Since 1945 ; Conclusions. |
| Abstract | Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00058411 |
| ISBN | 0393975274 |