xiv, 618 pages : 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-582) and index

1. Music in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome -- 2. Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450 -- 3. Polyphonic music from its beginnings through the thirteenth century -- 4. French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- 5. England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century: the beginnings of an international style -- 6. The age of the Renaissance: music of the Low Countries -- 7. The age of the Renaissance: new currents in the sixteenth century -- 8. Church music of the late Renaissance and Reformation

9. Music of the early Baroque period -- 10. Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- 11. Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- 12. music in the early eighteenth century -- 13. The early classical period: opera and instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- 14. The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- 15. Ludwig van Beethoven -- 16. Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music -- 17. Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century

18. Opera, music drama, and chuch music in the nineteenth century -- 19. European music from the 1870s to World war I -- 20. The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- 21. Antonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- 22. The American twentieth century

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