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Aboriginal and primitive music. The origin of music ; On the music of primitive peoples ; Non-European polyphony -- The music of ancient civilizations. The Far, Middle, and Near East. Ancient China ; The Near and Middle East ; Egypt ; Babylonia, Assyria, Asia Minor, and Syria ; Palestine (1700 B.C. to 70 A.D.) ; The music of Greece ; Hellenism ; Rome -- The North in pre-Christian times -- The music of medieval Europe. Music history of the European Middle Ages -- Byzantium -- The music of the early church through the 6th century -- Sacred monody since the second half of the 7th century. Gregorian chant ; Trope and sequence ; Lauda and Cantiga ; German sacred song up to the Reformation ; Czech pre-Hussite, Hussite, and post-Hussite song ; Poland ; Catholic church music in Scandinavia -- Medieval secular monody. Troubadours and trouvères ; The Minnesingers ; Denmark ; Poland ; The Meistersingers -- Medieval polyphonic music. Early organum (from about 900 to about 1130) ; Notre Dame school in Paris (Notre Dame Epoch) mid-12th to mid-13th century ; The second half of the 13th century (Ars antiqua) ; The 14th century in France (Ars nova) ; The 14th century in Italy (Trecento) ; The late 14th century in France and Italy ; England to the end of the 16th century ; Polyphony in Poland to about 1500 -- Renaissance music. The transition to modern times. The beginnings of music-printing -- Franco-Flemish music of the 15th and 16th centuries. First period (the first half of the 15th century) ; Second period (the second half of the 15th century) ; Third period (end of the 15th century to the death of Josquin) ; Fourth period (the mid-16th century) ; Fifth period (the late 16th century) ; Holland in transition from the 16th to the 17th century ; Poland in the 16th century ; The Americas through the 16th century -- The Venetian school. The prehistory of Venetian polychorality ; Characteristics of the Venetian school ; Representatives of the Venetian school ; Continued influence of the Venetian school ; Bohemia ; Poland -- The Roman school -- The Spanish school -- The vocal art of 16th-century society. Italy ; Burgundy and France ; Germany ; England ; Denmark ; Poland -- Music of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The Baroque and Classical periods. The Baroque era ; The Classical era -- The 19th century. The relative position of the various nations ; Music and society ; The make-up of music history -- Catholic church music from the 17th century to the present. Music in the Catholic service ; The 17th century ; The 18th century ; The 19th century ; The 20th century ; Monophonic and polyphonic Catholic passions -- Protestant church music from Luther to the present. Luther and the Evangelical worship-service ; Protestant song-books ; Chorale motet and sentence motet ; Sacred concert ; Cantata ; Passion ; Cantorial schools and cantors from the 16th century to the 18th century ; Schutz and Bach ; Protestant church music since Bach ; Church music in the Scandinavian countries since 1750 ; Church music in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries -- Opera. Prehistory of opera ; Italy ; France ; German-speaking countries ; England ; Czechoslovakia ; Russia ; Poland ; Scandinavia ; The Americas -- Oratorio. 17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ; 20th century -- Music for orchestra. Dance music and orchestral suite ; Instrumental ensemble music and orchestral music of the Renaissance and Baroque ; Symphony ; Program symphony and symphonic poem ; France after Berlioz ; Eastern Europe ; Scandinavian countries ; The Americas ; Overture -- Keyboard and lute music. Instruments ; Keyboard music to 1600 ; The 17th and 18th centuries (Baroque) ; Organ music after Bach ; Piano music after Bach ; Lute music -- Violin music. The instrument ; Transition from 16th to 17th century ; 17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ; Selected violin compositions of the 19th and 20th centuries -- Chamber music -- Song. 17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ; German choral song ; Solo song outside Germany -- The twentieth century. On the situation in the 20th century. Unifying and diverging trends ; Concluding remarks. |
