Music in Western Civilization, Media Update (with Resource Center Printed Access Card)
by Wright, Craig; Simms, Bryan R.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover w/ Access Card
Pub. Date: 2009-02-27
Publisher(s): Cengage
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Summary
Presenting music in its cultural context in a way that is clear and easy to understand, MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, MEDIA UPDATE offers detailed discussions of 224 works of music, covering all the major musical styles, genres, and composers in 83 brief yet intriguing chapters. The book places music in the context of the politics, personalities, arts, and humanities of each period of Western history. The importance of the cultural setting of many composers and genres is evidenced by such chapters as "Richard Strauss in Berlin," "Johann Sebastian Bach: Vocal Music in Leipzig," and "Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame."
Table of Contents
| Antiquity and the Middle Ages | |
| Music in Ancient Greece | |
| Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the Early Christian World | |
| Chant in the Monastery and Convent | |
| Music Theory in the Monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo | |
| Later Medieval Chant: Tropes, Sequences, and the Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen | |
| Troubadours and TrouvFres | |
| Early Polyphony | |
| Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame | |
| Inside the Cathedral Close and University: Conductus and Motet | |
| In the Parisian Master's Study: Music Theory of the Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova | |
| Music at the Court of the French Kings: The Ars Nova | |
| Fourteenth-Century Music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut | |
| Avignon, Symbolic Scores, and the Ars Subtilior | |
| Musical Interlude 1: From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Performance | |
| The Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance | |
| Music in Florence, 1350-1425 | |
| Music at the Cathedral of Florence | |
| Music in England | |
| Music at the Court of Burgundy | |
| Music at the French Royal Court | |
| Music in the Low Countries | |
| The Late Renaissance | |
| Musical Interlude 2: Music in the Late Renaissance | |
| Popular Music in Florence, 1470-1540: Carnival Song and Lauda, Frottola, and Early Madrigal | |
| Josquin Desprez and Music in Ferrara | |
| Musical Interlude 3: Music Printing During the Renaissance | |
| Music in Renaissance Paris | |
| Renaissance Instruments and Instrumental Music | |
| Musical Interlude 4: Music Theory in the Renaissance | |
| Music in Three German Cities: The Protestant-Catholic Confrontation | |
| Rome and the Music of the Counter-Reformation | |
| Music in Elizabethan England | |
| Early Vocal Music | |
| Music in Elizabethan England | |
| Later Vocal Music and Instrumental Music | |
| The Later Madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi | |
| Baroque Music | |
| Early Baroque Music | |
| The Birth of Opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice | |
| The Concerted Style in Venice and Dresden | |
| Religious Music in Baroque Rome | |
| Musical Interlude 5: A Baroque Christmas in the Andes of South America | |
| Instrumental Music in Italy | |
| Instrumental Music in Germany and Austria | |
| Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Vocal Music | |
| Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Instrumental Music | |
| Musical Interlude 6: From Ancient to Modern: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory | |
| Music in London | |
| Henry Purcell | |
| Music in London | |
| George Frideric Handel | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: Instrumental Music in Weimar and C÷then | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: Vocal Music in Leipzig | |
| The Enlightenment and the Classical Era | |
| Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Opera | |
| Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Orchestral Music | |
| Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Keyboard Music | |
| Classical Music in Vienna | |
| Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music | |
| Joseph Haydn: Late Symphonies and Vocal Music | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Instrumental Music | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vocal Music | |
| The Early Music of Beethoven | |
| Beethoven's Middle Period: 1802-1814 | |
| After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven's Late Music | |
| Romanticism | |
| Musical Interlude 7: Romanticism | |
| Franz Schubert | |
| Music in Paris Under Louis Philippe: Berlioz and Chopin | |
| Leipzig and the Gewandhaus: Mendelssohn and the Schumanns | |
| German Opera in the Nineteenth Century: Weber and Wagner | |
| Opera in Italy: Rossini and Verdi | |
| Nationalism and Virtuosity: Franz Liszt | |
| Vienna in the Late Nineteenth Century: Brahms and Bruckner | |
| Music and Ballet in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky | |
| Vienna at the turn of the Twentieth Century: Gustav and Alma Mahler | |
| England at the End of the Romantic Period: Elgar and Vaughan Williams | |
| Opera in Milan After Verdi: Puccini, Toscanini, and Verismo | |
| Paris of the Belle Epoque: Debussy, FaurT, and Lili Boulanger | |
| The Early Twentieth Century | |
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