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Music in western civilization

By Lang , Paul Henry

Book information

Publisher
W.W. Norton
Year
1941
ISBN
0393094286
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (50922274 bytes)
Edition
1941
Pages
\1164
Time added
2021-12-23 22:10:33

Description

A comprehensive history of occidental music focuses on the function of music as an expression of the spirit and artistic life of each age Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ancient Greece -- Byzantium -- Rome -- The Patristic period --Gregorian art and its sphere of influence -- Further diffusion of Gregorian art -- The Gothic -- The Ars Nova -- The Renaissance -- The baroque -- The late baroque -- Rococo, style galant, Empfindsamkeit -- The classic era -- The peripheries of eighteenth-century music and its practice -- The confluence of classicism and romanticism -- Romanticism -- From romanticism to realism -- Counter currents -- The peripheries of nineteenth-century music and its practice -- The road to the present -- Impressionism in music 'the decline of the West?' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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