Concise history of Western music / Barbara Russano Hanning

Includes glossary and index.

Contents : 1 Music in ancient Greece and Italy Christian Rome -- 2 Chant and secular song int the middle ages 400-1450 -- 3 Polyphonic music from its beginnings through the Thirteenth century -- 4 French and Italian music in the fourteenth -- 5 England and the Burgundian lands in the Fifteenth century: beginnings of an international style -- 6 The age of the Renaissance: music of the low -- 7 The age of the Renaissance: new currents in the sixteenth century -- 8 Church music of the late Renaissance and reformation -- 9 Music in the early baroque period -- 10 Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- 11 Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- 12 Music in the early eighteenth century -- 13 The early classic period: opera and instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- 14 The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- 15 Ludwig Van Beethoven -- 16 Romanticism ans nineteenth century orchestral music -- 17 Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- 18 Opera, music drama, and church music in the nineteenth century -- 19 European music from the 1870s to world war I -- 20 The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- 21 Atonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth century Europe -- 22 The American twentieth century

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