Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Recordings -- Musical life and Thought in Ancient Greece -- Chant and Secular song in the middle ages -- The beginnings of Polyphony and the Music od the Thirteenth Century -- French and Italian muisc in the fourteenth century -- England and Burgundian lands in the Fifteenth century -- The age of the Renaissance: Music of the low countries -- New Currents in the Sixteenth Century -- Church music of the late renaissance and reformation -- Music of the early baroque period -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the late baroque period -- Music in the Early eighteenth century -- Appendixes and indexes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Musical life and thought in Ancient Greece -- Chant and secular song in the middle ages -- The beginnings of poluphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- The age of the renaissance: music of the low countries -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music of the late renaissance and reformation -- Music of the early baroque period -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the Late baorque period -- Music in the early eighteenth century -- Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early classic period -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- Ludwig van Bethoven -- Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World War I -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonali, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century europe -- The American Twentith century.…”

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