Music in Europe and the United States: A HistoryThis 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 |