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Concise History of Western Music » (4th Edition)
Authors: Barbara Russano Hanning
ISBN-13: 9780393932515, ISBN-10: 0393932516
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2009
Edition: 4th Edition
Author Biography: Barbara Russano Hanning
Barbara Russano Hanning (Professor of Music, The City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) has taught music history to undergraduate and graduate students for thirty-five years and is the author of a book on early opera. She has served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (1993-1997) and chaired the Music Department at The City College of New York for fifteen years.
Book Synopsis
The most engaging and accessible brief survey of Western music history, at the best value on the market.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome | 1 |
| 2 | Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450 | 18 |
| 3 | Polyphonic Music from Its Beginnings through the Thirteenth Century | 43 |
| 4 | French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century | 62 |
| 5 | England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style | 83 |
| 6 | The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries | 99 |
| 7 | The Age of the Renaissance: New Currents in the Sixteenth Century | 120 |
| 8 | Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation | 150 |
| 9 | Music of the Early Baroque Period | 170 |
| 10 | Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century | 208 |
| 11 | Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period | 227 |
| 12 | Music in the Early Eighteenth Century | 249 |
| 13 | The Early Classic Period: Opera and Instrumental Music in the Eighteenth Century | 287 |
| 14 | The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart | 315 |
| 15 | Ludwig van Beethoven | 350 |
| 16 | Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music | 373 |
| 17 | Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century | 391 |
| 18 | Opera, Music Drama, and Church Music in the Nineteenth Century | 412 |
| 19 | European Music from the 1870s to World War I | 433 |
| 20 | The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century | 462 |
| 21 | Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe | 492 |
| 22 | The American Twentieth Century | 515 |
| Glossary | 553 | |
| Index | 567 |
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