Music in Europe and the United States : a history / Edith Borroff.
| Author/creator |
Borroff, Edith, 1925-2019 author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Ardsley House, Publishers, Inc., 1990. |
| Description | xxii, 794 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Music in the Ancient world -- Minstrelsy -- Sacred song -- Philosophy and theory -- Gothic polyphony -- Popular polyphony -- Ars nova -- At the height of the Renaissance -- At the end of the Renaissance -- America -- The new style in Italy -- The new style in Europe -- At the end of the Baroque -- The New World -- The Modernist generation -- The Classical generation -- America and Africa -- Music in the 1780s -- The Romantic Classicists -- A new republic -- The Romantic generation -- Philosophy and theory -- The later Romantics -- An expanding nation -- Traditionalists and iconoclasts -- Between two wars -- A new sound -- Philosophy and theory -- The United States -- The practicality of history. |
| Contents | Part 1. Through the medieval era. Music in the ancient world. Before written history ; Musical universals ; Medieval Europe -- Minstrelsy. Early medieval song ; The goliards ; The troubadours ; The trouvères ; The minnesinger ; Medieval song in England, Spain, and Italy ; Medieval dance music ; Composite forms ; Monophonic performance: minstrelsy ; Some composers of minstrelsy -- Sacred song. Plainchant ; Plainchant composition ; Plainchant style ; Performance of sacred song ; Composers of sacred song -- Philosophy and theory. The hexachord system ; Rhythm ; The ideals of medieval monophony -- Gothic polyphony. Early polyphony ; The school of Notre Dame ; Performance -- Popular polyphony. Polyphonic dances ; Polyphonic song ; Performance -- Ars nova. France ; The new art in Italy ; The Avignon school ; England ; The Burgundians ; The fifteenth century ; Some composers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Part 2. The Renaissance. At the height of the Renaissance. The polyphonic mass ; The motet ; Polyphonic song ; Folk song ; Theory ; Performance ; Some composers at the height of the Renaissance -- At the end of the Renaissance. Continuing polyphonic forms ; Monody ; Dramma per musica ; Some composers of the late Renaissance -- America. The Toltecs, the Incas, and the Aztecs ; The Spaniards and the Indians -- Part 3. The Baroque era. The new style in Italy. The new ideal of music ; Italian leadership ; Some composers of the Italian baroque -- The new style in Europe. French music in the seventeenth century ; English music in the seventeenth century ; German music in the seventeenth century ; Theory ; Performance ; Some composers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- At the end of the Baroque. Vocal forms ; Instrumental forms ; Some composers of the late Baroque -- The new world. Church music in the colonies ; Secular music in the colonies -- Part 4. Musical classicism. The modernist generation. The classical style ; Instrumental forms ; Theory ; Performance ; Some composers of the modernist generation -- The classical generation. Instrumental forms ; Musical theater ; England ; Some composers of the classical generation -- America and Africa. America ; Music in Black Africa ; Black music in the new world ; Some American composers of the eighteenth century -- Music in the 1780s. Dance and song ; The piano sonata -- Part 5. Romanticism. The romantic classicists. Piano music ; Song ; Some romantic classicists -- A new republic. Formal music ; Music in the parlor ; Singing schools and tune books ; Folk music ; Some American composers of the romantic-classicist generation -- The romantic generation. Centers of musical romanticism ; Instrumental music ; Vocal music ; Some composers of the romantic generation -- Philosophy and theory. The philosophy of music ; Theory ; Performance ; National attitudes -- The later romantics. Musical factionalism ; Song ; Operetta ; Popular music ; Some later romantic composers -- An expanding nation. The piano ; The band ; The minstrel show ; Music of the Negro ; The American Indian ; Popular music ; Religious music -- Part 6. The new music. Traditionalists and iconoclasts. Divided musical traditions ; The dance ; Musicology ; The United States ; Some composers in the beginning of the twentieth century -- Between two wars. Seeds of change ; A period of transition ; Roaring twenties and the Depression thirties ; Some composers active between the wars -- A new sound. A new humanism ; A new notation ; The new music ; Some composers active after World War II -- Philosophy and theory. Time ; Sound ; Composition ; The composer -- The United States. Concert music ; Popular music ; Music in the media ; At the end of the eighties -- Part 7. History and music. The practicality of history. Time ; Sound ; Embellishment and improvisation ; Western theories of music ; Idioms ; History and the musical experience. |
| Abstract | This book is unique in several ways. First, it examines the changing ideals that have characterized music of our culture since the Medieval era, in each case as a proponent of that ideal; the music is examined from the vantage of the performer and composer, and the text is directed to practicing musicians. Musical examples are copious; over eighty complete works include the Missa L'Homme armé of Josquin, the Symphony no. 24 of Mozart, and the Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima of Penderecki. Many of the early works are accompanied by facsimiles of the original notation, and printing is incorporated as a silent counterpoint to the text. A history of theory is also included, with several sections devoted to developments through history of the theory and philosophy of music. But above all, America is incorporated into the history from the Renaissance period, so the book deals with our own music as a continuous art, revealing it as the marvelous stuff that it is. Sections are included that present the native American and African backgrounds; the music of the Black heritage is well represented. This extremely colorful and lively book is directed to American students, men and women (women are a constant presence in the book), who may well take pride in the splendid music of their country. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 763) and index. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| LCCN | 92190420 |
| ISBN | 0912675446 |
| ISBN | 9780912675442 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML160.B77 M9 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |