A Popular History of the Art of Music / From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Excerpt from A Popular History of the Art of Music, From the Earliest Times Until the Present: With Accounts of the Chief Musical Instruments and Scales; The Principles and Artistic Value of Their Music I have divided the entire history into books, placing at the beginning of each book a general chapter defining the central idea and salient features of the step in development therein recounted. The student who will attentively peruse these chapters in succession will have in them a fairly complete account of the entire progress.
Chapters (624)
- ART OF MUSIC
- From the Earliest Times Until the Present.
- With Accounts of the Chief Musical Instruments and Scales; the Principles and Artistic Value of Their Music; together with Biographical Notices of the Greater Composers, Chronological Charts, Specimens of Music, and Many Engravings.
- Editor of "Music" Magazine,
- CONTENTS
- TO
- DR. FLORENCE ZIEGFELD,
- President of the Chicago Musical College THIS WORK IS
- RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
- PREFACE.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CONTENTS.
- BOOK FIRST — MUSIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
- BOOK SECOND — APPRENTICE PERIOD OF MODERN MUSIC
- BOOK THIRD — THE DAWN OF MODERN MUSIC.
- BOOK FOURTH — FLOWERING TIME OF MODERN MUSIC.
- BOOK FIFTH — EPOCH OF THE ROMANTIC.
- CHRONOLOGY OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS.
- CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL ITALIAN COMPOSERS.
- CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF THE MORE IMPORTANT GERMAN COMPOSERS.
- CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF PIANISTS AND COMPOSERS FOR THE PIANOFORTE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- THE
- Music of the Ancient World.
- PRIMITIVE TYPES OF INSTRUMENTS, AND AN ARTISTIC MONODY, WITHOUT REAL TONALITY.
- CHAPTER I.
- MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
- CHAPTER II.
- MUSIC AMONG THE HEBREWS AND ASSYRIANS.
- II.
- CHAPTER III.
- MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
- CHAPTER IV.
- MUSIC IN INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN.
- I.
- II.
- THE
- Apprentice Period of Modern Music.
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF HARMONY, TONALITY, CANONIC IMITATION AND POLYPHONY. THE GENERAL POPULARIZATION OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN EVERY DIRECTION.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE NATURE OF THE TRANSFORMATION, AND THE AGENCIES EFFECTING IT.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE MINSTRELS OF THE NORTH.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE ARABS OR SARACENS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- ORIGIN OF THE GREAT FRENCH EPICS.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE TROUBADOURS, TROUVÈRES AND MINNESINGERS.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE DIDACTIC OF MUSIC FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY TO THE FOURTEENTH.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- CHAPTER XII.
- THE RISE OF POLYPHONY. OLD FRENCH AND GALLO-BELGIC SCHOOLS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- THE SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- POLYPHONIC SCHOOLS OF ITALY. PALESTRINA.
- CHAPTER XV.
- THE CHANGES IN MUSICAL NOTATION.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THE VIOLIN, ORGAN, ETC.
- I.
- II.
- THE
- Dawn of Modern Music.
- THE BEGINNING OF FREE EXPRESSION IN SONG, OPERA, ORATORIO AND FREE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- CONDITION OF MUSIC AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- FIRST CENTURY OF ITALIAN OPERA AND DRAMATIC SONG.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- BEGINNINGS OF OPERA IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.
- I.
- II.
- CHAPTER XX.
- THE PROGRESS OF ORATORIO.
- I.
- II.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- BEGINNINGS OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
- II.
- III.
- THE
- Flowering Time of Modern Music.
- BACH, HÄNDEL, HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN. THE FUGUE AND THE SONATA.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- GENERAL VIEW OF MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- GEO. FREDERICK HÄNDEL.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- EMANUEL BACH; HAYDN; THE SONATA.
- I.
- II.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- MOZART AND HIS GENIUS.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- BEETHOVEN AND HIS WORKS.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- HAYDN, MOZART AND BEETHOVEN COMPARED.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- OPERA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- PIANO PLAYING AND VIRTUOSI; THE VIOLIN; TARTINI AND SPOHR.
- I.
- II.
- THE
- Period of the Romantic.
- WEBER, PAGANINI, SCHUBERT, BERLIOZ, MEYERBEER, MENDELSSOHN, SCHUMANN, CHOPIN, LISZT, WAGNER; THE VIRTUOSI; MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE ROMANTIC; MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- SCHUBERT AND THE ROMANTIC.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- THE STORY OF THE PIANOFORTE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- GERMAN OPERA; WEBER, MEYERBEER AND WAGNER.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- VIRTUOSITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; PAGANINI; BERLIOZ; CHOPIN; LISZT.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- MENDELSSOHN AND SCHUMANN.
- I.
- II.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- ITALIAN OPERA DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- FRENCH OPERATIC COMPOSERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.
- LATER COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS.
- I. Music in Germany.
- II. Music in Russia.
- III. Music in Bohemia.
- IV. Music in Scandinavia.
- V. Music in England.
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