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The Greek view of music. From the Republic / Plato -- From the Politics / Aristotle -- From the Harmonic Elements / Aristoxenus -- Harmonic Introduction / Cleonides -- From the Sophists at Dinner / Athenaeus -- The early Christian view of music. From the Exhortation to the Greeks / Clement of Alexandria -- From the Homily on the First Psalm / St. Basil -- From the Exposition of Psalm XLI / St. John Chrysostom -- From the Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians / St. Jerome -- From the Confessions / St. Augustine -- Music as a liberal art. From the De institutione musica / Boethius -- From the Institutiones / Cassiodorus -- From the Etymologiarum / Isidore of Seville -- Musical theory in the Middle Ages. Enchiridion musices / Odo of Cluny -- Prologus antiphonarii sui / Guido of Arezzo -- Epistola de ignoto cantu / Guido of Arezzo -- From the Scholia enchiriadis / Anonymous -- Ars cantus mensurabilis / Franco of Cologne -- From the Pomerium / Marchetto da Padua -- From the Ars novae musicae / Jean de Muris -- From the Speculum musicae / Jacob of Liége -- Musical theorists of the Renaissance. Proportionale musices, dedication / Joannes Tinctoris -- Liber de arte contrapuncti, dedication / Joannes Tinctoris -- From the Musica practica / Bartolomé Ramos -- From the Trattato della natura e cognizione di tutti gli toni di canto figurato / Pietro Aron -- From the Dodecachordon / Heinrich Glarean [Glareanus] -- From the Istituzioni armoniche / Gioseffe Zarlino -- From El melopeo y maestro / Pietro Cerone -- From A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music / Thomas Morley -- Music in Renaissance life and thought. From Il cortegiano / Baldassare Castiglione -- Livre des mélanges, dedication / Pierre de Ronsard -- Discorso mandato a Giulio Caccini / Giovanni de' Bardi -- From the Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna / Vincenzo Galilei -- Motettorum liber quartus, dedication / G. P. da Palestrina -- Cantiones sacrae of 1593, dedication / Orlando di Lasso -- Gradualia, dedications and forewords / William Byrd -- From The Compleat Gentleman / Henry Peacham -- Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Wittemberg Gesangbuch, foreword to the first edition / Martin Luther -- Wittemberg Gesangbuch, foreword to the revised edition / Johann Walther -- Geneva Psalter, foreword / Jean Calvin -- Geneva Psalter, foreword to the edition of 1565 / Claude Goudimel -- Letter to Henry VIII / Thomas Cranmer -- The Whole Book of Psalms, dedication and preface / Thomas East -- Preces speciales, dedication / Jacob de Kerle -- Brief on the Reform of the Chant / Pope Gregory XIII -- "Seconda pratica" and "stile rappresentativo." Letter to G. B. Doni / Pietro de' Bardi -- Euridice, dedication / Ottavio Rinuccini -- Euridice, dedication / Giulio Caccini -- Euridice, foreword / Jacopo Peri -- Le nuove musiche, foreword / Giulio Caccini -- From L'Artusi, ovvero, Delle imperfezioni della moderna musica / G. M. Artusi -- Il quinto libro de' madrigali, foreword with the "declaration" of his brother G. C. Monteverdi / Claudio Monteverdi -- Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi, foreword / Claudio Monteverdi -- |
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Musical practice in the Baroque age. Cento concerti ecclesiastici, preface / Lodovico Grossi da Viadana -- Del sonare sopra il basso / Agostino Agazzari -- Symphoniae sacrae, dedications and forewords / Heinrich Schütz -- Florilegia and Auserlesene Instrumental-Music, forewords / Georg Muffat -- Musikalische Handleitung, foreword / F. E. Niedt -- Operatic rivalry in France: pro and contra Lully. Parallèle des Italiens et des Français / François Raguenet -- From the Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique française / Le Cerf de La Viéville, Seigneur de Freneuse -- Critical views of Italian opera: Addison and Marcello. From The Spectator / Joseph Addison -- From Il teatro alla moda / Benedetto Marcello -- The reformulation of the theory of harmony and counterpoint. From the Gradus ad Parnassum / J. J. Fux -- From the Traité de l'harmonie / J. P. Rameau -- The transition to the musical practice of the Classical period. From the Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen / J. J. Quantz -- From the Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule / Leopold Mozart -- From the Versuch über die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen / C. P. E. Bach -- Operatic rivalry in France: the "Querelle des Bouffons." Le petit prophète de Boehmisch-Broda / F. W. von Grimm -- Lettre sur la musique française / J. J. Rousseau -- Critical views of Italian opera: Algarotti and Gluck. From the Saggio sopra l'opera in musica / Francesco Algarotti -- Alceste, dedication / C. W. von Gluck -- Letter to M. d'Auvergne / F. L. Du Roullet -- Letter to the Editor of the "Mercure de France" / C. W. von Gluck -- The European scene. From The Present State of Music in France and Italy / Charles Burney -- From the Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden / J. F. Reichardt -- From the Mémoires / A. E. M. Grétry -- From the Briefe geschrieben auf einer Reise nach Wien / J. F. Reichardt -- Literary forerunners of musical Romanticism. From the Vorschule der Aesthetik / Jean Paul -- The remarkable musical life of the musician Joseph Berglinger / W. H. Wackenroder -- From the Hesperus / Jean Paul -- Beethoven's instrumental music / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- The poet and the composer / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Composer-critics of the nineteenth century. On the opera "Undine" / C. M. von Weber -- Rossini's "William Tell" / Hector Berlioz -- Davidsbündlerblätter / Robert Schumann -- From Berlioz and his "Harold" symphony / Franz Liszt -- From Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft / Richard Wagner. |
