A History of Western Music

by: Grout, J.

Price: 84,00 EURO

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A history of Western music

Author:Donald Jay Grout

xiv, 742 pages illustrations, portraits, music 25 cm

Contents:
The state of music at the end of the ancient world
Gregorian chant and secular song in the Middle Ages
The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century
French and Italian music of the fourteenth century
Music at the close of the Middle Ages : the English and Burgundian schools
The age of the Renaissance : Ockeghem to Josquin
New currents in the sixteenth century
Church music and instrumental music in the late Renaissance
Early Baroque music
The mature Baroque : vocal music
The mature Baroque : instrumental music
The early eighteenth century
Sources of Classical style : the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century
The late eighteenth century
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
The Romantic period : vocal music
The Romantic period : instrumental music
The Romantic period : opera and music drama
The end of an era
The twentieth century

A History of Western Music

by: Grout, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780393095371 / 978-0-393-09537-1
• ISBN-03: 0393095371 / 0-393-09537-1
• W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1960

Price: 84,00 EURO

1 copy in stock