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Search - Music Through The Ages - A Narrative For Student And Layman

Music Through The Ages A Narrative For Student And Layman
Author: Marion Bauer

MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES A NARRATIVE FOR STUDENT AND LAYMAN by MARION BAUER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY and ETHEL PEYSER Authors o How Music Grew A NEW EDITION, COMPLETELY REVISED G-P-PUTNAMSSONS-NEWYORK COPYRIGHT, 193 5 1946, BY MARION BAUER AND ETHEL R. PEYSER All rights reserved. This book, car parts thereof, m... more »ust not be reproduced In any form without permission. Seventeenth Impression Second Edition Completely Revised MANUFACTUBED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA We dedicate this book to the students and music lovers who have been impelled by a curiosity about music to of en its covers 6S75C53 if the province of music to make us investigate the nature of things, and. to cause us to compreheni th e various trans formations taking flace Trans, by B. JENKINS from Yok-kyi Pro Musica Quarterly, Dec., 1928 CONTENTS JPAGE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION xi PART I. PRIMITIVE AND ANCIENT Music Monadic Age . 3 CHAPTER 1. Music Through the Ages 3 2. Music of Primitive Man f 8 AMERICAN INDIAN, HINDU PRIMITIVES, AFRICAN NEGRO 3. Music of the Ancients 14 EGYPTIAN, ASSYRIAN, HEBREW, ARAB, HINDU 4. Music of the Orient . 26 CHINESE, JAPANESE, SIAMESE, BURMESE, JAVANESE, ETC. 5. Musical Foundations Greece and Roman Adaptations 32 II. Music OF THE CHURCH Polyphonic Age ... 44 6. Medieval Music the Product of the Church Polyphonic Age Foreshadowed .... 44 DARK AGES, PLAINSONG, NOTATION, FORMS, ETC. 7. Rise of Schools Motets and Madrigals . . 69 8. Reformation and Renaissance 76 PRINTING, TUDOR MUSIC, LUTHER, PALESTRINA, ETC. III. SECULAR Music Harmonic Age Foreshadowed . . 84 9. Bards, Troubadours, Minnesingers ... 84 10. Folk Music through the Ages 92 1 1 . The Foreshadowings and Beginnings of Opera . I o 8 CAMERATA, MONTEVERDI, BALLETS, SINGSPIEL, MASQUES viii CONTENTS PJUtT AG IV. INSTRUMENTAL Music Harmonic and Polyphonic Influences 9 CHAPTER 12. New Instrumental Paths 119 SUITE, EARLY SONATA, OVERTURE, FUGUE, ETC. 13. The Violin, Its Makers and Its Music . . . 127 14. Early Composers for Keyboard Instruments . 132 FRENCH, ITALIAN, ENGLISH AND GERMAN V. THE CLASSIC PERIOD Harmonic Age . . . . 143 15. Bach The Bridge between Polyphonic and Harmonic Eras 143 16. Eighteenth Century Forms 154 A. HANDEL AND ORATORIO B. BACHS SONS AND THE SONATA C. MANNHEIM SCHOOL ANB THE SYMPHONY 17. Classical Opera 1 66 SCARLATTI, PURCELL, LULLY, RAMEAU, CLUCK, ETC. 1 8. Haydn Innovator 177 19. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 186 20. Beethoven The Bridge between the Classic and the Romantic 198 21. Beethovenism and the Pianoforte . . . 205 VI. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD Harmonic Age contM . 217 22. Schubert, the Song Maker . . t . j . - .217 THE GERMAN Lied 23. Mendelssohn The Classic Romanticist . . 226 THE MENDELSSOHN SCHOOL 24. Schumann The Literary Romanticist . . . 235 25. Chopin The Poet-Soul 244 26. Program Music Berlioz and Liszt . . , .254 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMPHONIC POEM CONTENTS ix PART PAGS VII. ROMANTIC OPERA ............ 268 CHAPTER 27. Opera in France, Germany, Italy and England 268 GRETRY, VON WEBER, MEYERBEER, ROSSINI, SULLIVAN, ETC. 28. Richard Wagner and His Music of the Future . 278 29. Late Nineteenth-Century Opera . . . . 290 VERDI, PUCCINI, OFFENBACH, BIZET, GOUNOD, MASSENKT, STRAUSS, ETC. VIII. LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRENDS . . . .306 30. Brahms Nineteenth-Century Neoclassicist . 306 31. Romantic Symphonists 319 BRUCKNER, MAHJLER, WOLF, STRAUSS, TCHAIKOVSKY, SAINT SAENS, EX. GAR 32. The Symphony Orchestra 333 ORCHESTRATION, CONDUCTORS AND THE ORCHESTRA 33. Nationalism -. 345 PART i THE RUSSIAN FIVE 34. Nationalism 353 PART n NORWEGIAN, BOHEMIAN, SPANISH, ENGLISH, arc. 35. Cesar Franck and his Disciples .... 366 La Soctete Nationals, DINDY, FAURE, ETC. IX. Music IN AMERICA K 379 36. Beginnings of Music in America . . . - 379 BTMKODT AND SINGING SCHOOLS, FIRST COMPOSERS, ORCHES TRAS AND OPERA 37. American Folk and Popular Music . . . 393 SOURCES AND RAMIFICATIONS JACK 38. The Third Period of American Music . . 409 39...

ISBN-13: 9781406739411
ISBN-10: 1406739413
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 652
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Publisher: Wellhausen Press
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