Music in Europe and the United States: A History

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Prentice-Hall, 1971 - Music - 752 pages
This widely used text for music majors examines the changing ideals that have characterized music of western culture since the Medieval era from the vantage of the performer and composer. In addition to music theory and philosophy, all facets of music -- musical theater, dance, instrumental music, vocal forms, folk songs, religious music, popular music, music in the media -- are examined.

Contents

Music in the Ancient World
3
Fede Francesco Landini 27 De plus en plus Gilles Binchois 28 Lhomme
9
Minstrelsy
17
des Prez 32 Exaudi Deus Heinrich Isaac 33 Beatus vir Heinrich Isaac
34
Sanctus and Agnus Tomás Luis de Victoria 42 O Welt ich muss dich
41
Early Medieval Song The Goliards The Troubadours The Trouvères
47
Prelude and Courante from Pièces de Clavecin JeanHenri dAnglebert
51
Philosophy and Theory
69
Me Then the Reason Why Luffman Atterbury
377
The Classical Style Instrumental Forms Theory Performance Some
379
America and Africa
415
When Jesus Wept William Billings 63 The Toast to Washington Francis
420
America Music in Black Africa Black Music in the New World Some
441
The Romantic Classicists
453
A New Republic
478
Formal Music Music in the Parlor Folk Music Some American Com
485

Musical Examples
78
Gothic Polyphony
81
Popular Polyphony
105
Ars Nova
113
France The New Art in Italy The Avignon School England
122
At the Height of the Renaissance
147
The Polyphonic Mass The Motet Polyphonic Song Folk Song Theory
202
Continuing Polyphonic Forms Monody Dramma per Musica Some
239
The New Style in Italy
257
The New Style in Europe
287
French Music in the Seventeenth Century English Music in the Seven
315
At the End of the Baroque
321
Vocal Forms Instrumental Forms Some Important Composers of
330
The New World
349
The Modernist Generation
361
and The Devil among the Tailors Anonymous
502
Centers of Musical Romanticism Instrumental Music Vocal Music
503
from La Traviata Giuseppi Verdi 76 Tristan und Isolde Vorspiel excerpt
514
An Expanding Nation
542
Mary and Marthy Anonymous
558
Traditionalists and Iconoclasts
567
Divided Musical Traditions The Dance Musicology The United
587
A New Sound
618
To the Victims of Hiroshima Krzysztof Penderecki
635
A New Humanism A New Notation The New Music Some Com
653
Time Sound Composition The Composer
666
The Practicality of History
685
denza from Merope Carlo Broschi Farinelli 91 Adagio Sonata V Op
704
Index
731

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