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A history of western music

Title
A history of western music / Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca.
Author
Grout, Donald Jay.
Publication
New York : Norton, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors
Palisca, Claude V.
Description
xvi, 843 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music; 26 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 2. Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages -- 3. The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century -- 4. French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century -- 5. England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century -- 6. The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries -- 7. New Currents in the Sixteenth Century -- 8. Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation -- 9. Music of 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. Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period -- 14. The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart -- 15. Ludwig van Beethoven -- 16. Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music -- 17. Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century --
  • 18. Opera and Music Drama 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.
ISBN
0393975274
LCCN
00058411
OCLC
  • ocm44619446
  • SCSB-8875590
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries