TY  - BOOK
TI  - Concise history of western music
SN  - 9780393928037
U1  - 780.09 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New york
PB  - W.W. norton & company
N1  - Preface to the third edition --
Ancient and Medieval worlds: Music in Ancient Greece and early Christian Rome; Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages; Polyphonic music through the thirteenth century; French and Italian music in the fourteenth century --
Age of the Renaissance: England, France, and Burgundy in the fifteenth century, the beginnings of an international style; Music of the low countries; Secular song and the rise of national styles in the sixteenth century; Sacred music in the era of the Reformation --
Seventeenth century: Vocal music of the early Baroque; Instrumental music comes of age; Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century; Instrumental music in the late seventeenth century --
Eighteenth century: Music in the early eighteenth century; Early classical period, opera and instrumental music in the early and mid-eighteenth century; Late eighteenth century, Haydn and Mozart; Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) --
Nineteenth century, the age of Romanticism: Early Romantics; Later Romantics; Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century; Final bloom of Romanticism, European music at the end of the nineteenth century --
Twentieth century and today: European mainstream in the early twentieth century; Music, politics, and the people in the European twentieth century; Music in America; Changing world of music since 1945 --
Glossary
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