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11 reviewsISBN 10: 0393124266
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Author: Barbara Russano Hanning
The most student-friendly music history text available, now with Total Access.
Barbara Hanning’s Concise History of Western Music offers students a manageable introduction to the forces that shaped music. Combining concision with the imaginative pedagogy that her text pioneered, Hanning focuses on an essential repertoire of 109 characteristic works―from the Middle Ages to the present―providing students with the cultural and historical context to illuminate the music and remember its significance. The new Total Access program unlocks a full suite of media resources with every new book, including instant access to streaming recordings of the complete Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire, an ebook, audio for nearly every short example in the text, and stunning Metropolitan Opera video.
Why Study Music History? xxxiii
PART ONE
The Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Introduction 2
Overview of the Early Middle Ages 6 Political Change and Economic Development 8. Learning and the Arts, 1050-1300 10
Overview of the Fourteenth Century 11
1. Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome 15
Prelude 15 Music in Ancient Greek Life and Thought 16 20. The Early Christian Church: Musical Thought 20 Musical Practice 22 Postlude 25 Roman Music, 200 BCE-500 ск The Early Christian Church:
2. Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages 27
Prelude 27 Western Christian Chant and Liturgy 28 Genres and Forms of Chant 33.
Medieval Music Theory and Practice 42 Medieval Song 44
Postlude 48
3. Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century 49
Prelude 49. Early Organum 51 Notre Dame Polyphony 54 The Motet 58. The Conductus 63 Postlude 64
4. French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century 66
Prelude 66 The Ars Nova in France 68
Italian Trecento Music 76 The Ars Subtilior 83. English Polyphony 85 Postlude 85
PART TWO
The Age of the Renaissance
of the Renaissance 92
5. England, France, and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century 97
Prelude 97 English Music and Its Influence 99 Music in Burgundian Lands 102.
Postlude 110
6. Music of Franco-Flemish Composers, 1450-1520 111
Prelude 111 Northern Composers: The Generation after Du Fay 112 The Next Generation: Josquin and His Contemporaries 115 Postlude 124
7. Secular Song and National Styles in the Sixteenth Century
125
Prelude 125. The Rise of National Styles: Italy and Spain 126 The Italian Madrigal 127 The Rise of National Styles: France and England 134 Postlude 139
8. The Rise of Instrumental Music 141
Prelude 141 Dance Music 142 Arrangements of Vocal Music 145 Settings of Existing Melodies 146 Variations 147 Abstract Instrumental Works 150 Postlude 152
9. Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation 153
Prelude 153 The Music of the Reformation in Germany 154 Reformation Church Music outside Germany 156 The Counter-Reformation 159
Postlude 167
PART THREE
The Long Seventeenth Century
Introduction 168
Europe in the Seventeenth Century 170 From Renaissance to Baroque 172
The Musical
Baroque 176
10. Vocal Music of the Early Baroque and the Invention of Opera 182
Prelude 182 General Characteristics of Baroque Music 183 Early Opera 188 Rome and Venice 196 Postlude 198
Opera in
11. Vocal Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Baroque 200
Prelude 200 Vocal Chamber Music 200 Catholic Sacred Music 205
Lutheran Church
Music 208 Postlude 212
12. Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century 213
Prelude 213 Variations 214 Abstract Instrumental Works 215 Music for Lute and Harpsichord 222 Ensemble Music 227 Postlude 237
Music for Organ 220.
13. Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century 240
Prelude 240 Italy 240 France 244 England 252
Germany 256
Postlude 259
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14. Baroque Music in the Early Eighteenth Century 261
Prelude 261 Italy: The Rise of the Concerto 261 France Couperin and Rameau 269. Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach 273 England: George Frideric Handel 288 Postlude 298
PART FOUR
The Eighteenth Century
Introduction 300
Europe in the Eighteenth Century 302 From Baroque to Classic 307 The Place of Music in the Classic Era 309
15. The Early Classic Period: Opera and Vocal Music 312
Prelude 312. General Characteristics of the New Style 312 Opera Buffa 314 Opera Seria 317 Opera Reform 320 The New World 323 Postlude 325
16. The Early Classic Period: Instrumental Music 326
Prelude 326 Sonata 326 Symphony 329 The Empfindsam Style 332 Concerto 334. Postlude 335
17. The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart 338
Prelude 338 (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 339 Haydn's Instrumental Works 341. Haydn's Vocal Works 351 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 353 Mozart's Salzburg Years 353 Mozart's Vienna Years 356 Postlude 369
18. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 370
Prelude 370 First Period, to ca. 1802 371 Second Period, ca. 1803-1816 375 Third Period, after 1816 381 Postlude 389
PART FIVE
The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Romanticism
Introduction 390
From Classic to Romantic 392 Europe in the Nineteenth Century 396 Romanticism in Music 400
19. The Early Romantics 403
Prelude 403 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 404 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 413. Clara Schumann (1819-1896) 417 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 418. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) 420 Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) 421 Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) 426 Two Americans: Foster and Gottschalk 431 Postlude 433
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20. Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century 434
Prelude 434 French Grand (and Not So Grand) Opera 435 Italian Opera 440 German Romantic Opera 450
Postlude 460
21. The Later Romantics 462
Prelude 462 Franz Liszt (1811-1886) 464 Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) 468
Johannes
Brahms (1833-1897) 469 Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 475 Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) and Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) 478 Postlude 481
22. Music in the Late Nineteenth Century: Nationalism, Romanticism, and Beyond 483
Prelude 483 The Austro-German Tradition 484
National Trends Beyond Germany and
Austria 490 New Currents in France and Italy 495 The Classical Tradition in the United
States 499 Postlude 501
PART SIX
The Twentieth Century and Today
Introduction 502
The Arts and the Modern Human Condition 508 The Technological Revolution 512
The
Changing World of Music 514
23. Classical Modernism 517
Prelude 517 The First Generation of Modernists 518 Modernism and National
Traditions 524 The Avant-Garde 528 Postlude 532
24. Vernacular Music in America 533
Prelude 533 Vernacular Styles and Genres 533
Popular Song and American Musical
Theater 537. The Jazz Age 544 Postlude 551
25. Radical Modernism 553
Prelude 553 Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) 554 Alban Berg (1885-1935) 561 Anton
Webern (1883-1945) 564 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) 566 •
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) 574
Charles Ives (1874-1954) 579
Postlude 585
26. Music between the Two World Wars 586
Prelude 586 France 587 Germany 589 The Soviet Union 592 The Americas 597.
Postlude 605
27. The Changing World of Postwar Music 608
Prelude 608 Developments in Jazz 608 Heirs to the Classical Tradition 610. The Avant-
Garde 614 Serial and Nonserial Complexity 618
New Sounds and Textures 622.
Postlude 629
28. Into the Twenty-First Century 630
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