Critical and Historical Essays / Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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- CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS
- Lectures delivered at Columbia University BY EDWARD MACDOWELL EDITED BY W.J. BALTZELL
- London ELKIN & CO., Ltd., 8 & 10 Beak Street, Regent Street, W. CONSTABLE & CO., Ltd., 10 Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C. Boston, U.S.A., ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT Copyright, 1912, by ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT A.P.S. 9384 Stanhope Press F.H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON, U.S.A.
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS I THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC
- II ORIGIN OF SONG vs. ORIGIN OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- III THE MUSIC OF THE HEBREWS AND THE HINDUS
- IV THE MUSIC OF THE EGYPTIANS, ASSYRIANS, AND CHINESE
- V THE MUSIC OF THE CHINESE (Continued)
- VI THE MUSIC OF GREECE
- LIST OF NOTES IN THE GREEK SCALE
- VII THE MUSIC OF THE ROMANS—THE EARLY CHURCH
- SUMMARY
- VIII FORMATION OF THE SCALE—NOTATION
- The Gamut.
- Present Scale.
- DIRGE FOR KING RICHARD'S DEATH
- IX THE SYSTEMS OF HUCBALD AND GUIDO D'AREZZO—THE BEGINNING OF COUNTERPOINT
- X MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS—THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
- XI FOLK SONG AND ITS RELATION TO NATIONALISM IN MUSIC
- Three or four note (simple)
- Emotional (simple)
- Emotional and Composite
- Howl and Emotion
- XII THE TROUBADOURS, MINNESINGERS AND MASTERSINGERS
- PASTORELLA BY THIBAUT II, KING OF NAVARRE, 1254.
- XIII EARLY INSTRUMENTAL FORMS
- OLD DANCE FORMS (1650–1750).
- ANALYSIS OF OLD DANCES
- MODERN FORMS (1800).
- XIV THE MERGING OF THE SUITE INTO THE SONATA
- XV THE DEVELOPMENT OF PIANOFORTE MUSIC
- XVI THE MYSTERY AND MIRACLE PLAY
- EURYDICE—PERI.
- XVII OPERA
- XVIII OPERA (Continued)
- XIX ON THE LIVES AND ART PRINCIPLES OF SOME SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMPOSERS
- XX DECLAMATION IN MUSIC
- XXI SUGGESTION IN MUSIC
- INDEX
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
- E.
- F.
- G.
- H.
- I.
- J.
- K.
- L.
- M.
- N.
- O.
- P.
- Q.
- R.
- S.
- T.
- V.
- W.
- Z.
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