Burkholder, J. Peter (James Peter), author.
1401;New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Guide to NAWM recordings — Part 1: The ancient and medieval worlds. — Music in antiquity — The Christian Church in the first millennium — Roman liturgy and chant — Song and dance music to 1300 — Polyphony through the thirteenth century — New developments in the fourteenth century — Part 2: The Renaissance. — Music and the Renaissance — England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century — Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520 — Sacred music in the era of the Reformation — Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century — The rise of instrumental music — Part 3: The Seventeenth century. — New styles in the seventeenth century — The invention of opera — Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century — France, England, Spain and the New World in the seventeenth century — Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century — Part 4: The eighteenth century. — The early eighteenth century in Italy and France — German composers of the late Baroque — Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment — Opera and vocal music in the early classic period — Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto — Classical music in the late eighteenth century — Part 5: Nineteenth century. — Revolution and change — The Romantic generation : song and piano music — Romanticism in classical forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music — Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury — Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century — Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria — Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century — Part 6: The twentieth century and after. — The early twentieth century: vernacular music — The early twentieth century: the classical tradition — Radical modernists — Between the World Wars : jazz and popular music — Between the World Wars : the classical tradition — Postwar crosscurrents — Postwar heirs to the classical tradition — The late twentieth century — The twenty-first century — Glossary — For further reading.
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