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xxiii, 328 pages ; 22 cm |
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Music and society / Wilfrid Mellers -- The classical heritage / Egon Wellesz -- Gregorian Chant / Alec Robertson -- The troubadours / Dennis Stevens -- The Trouveres and the Minnesingers / Denis Stevens -- The birth of polyphony / Willi Apel -- The Norte-dame school / Willi Apel -- The 'Ars Nova' in France / Denis Stevens -- John Dunstable / Denis Stevens -- The passing of the middle ages and the coming of the renaissance / Paul Henry Lang -- Lassus and the flemish school / Paul Henry Lang -- The French Renaissance School / Paul Henry Lang -- The German Renaissance School / Paul Henry Lang -- The Spanish Renaissance School / Paul Henry Lang -- Renaissance Italy: Madrigals and Roman church music / Gustave Reese --Renaissance Italy: instrumental music and Venetian church music / Gustave Reese -- England under the tudors: instrumental music / Gustave Reese -- From renaissance to Baroque / J. A. Westrup -- Nonteverdi / J. A. Westrup -- Italian instrumental music in the seventeenth century / Denis Stevens -- The Italian violin school / Denis Stevens -- Purcell and English seventeenth-century music / A. K. Holland -- The French school: Lully and Charpenter / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- The French School: Couperin and Rameau / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Northern Europe before Bach / Arthur Hutchings |
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J. S. Bach / Arthur Hutchings -- Handel / Anthony Lewis -- Eighteenth-century keyboard music / Lionel Salter -- Bach's sons and the Mannheim School / Karl Geiringer -- Eighteenth-century opera / Karl Geiringer -- Haydn / Karl Geiringer -- Mozart / Karl Geiringer -- Beethoven / Alfred Frankenstein -- Nineteenth-century symphony and symphonic poem / William Mann -- Nineteenth-century song / Andrew Porter -- Nineteeth-century opera / Andrew Porter -- Nineteeth-century chamber music / Andrew Porter -- Nineteeth-century piano music / Lionel Salter -- Nineteeth-century nationalism and the diffusion of romanticism / William Mann -- The twentieth century / Reorientation and experiment / Aaron Copland -- New orthodoxies: twelve-note composition / Alfred Frankenstein -- New orthodoxies: neo-classicism / Alfred Frankenstein -- Twentieth-century nationalism / Andrew Porter -- Twentieth-century music: the second generation / Andrew Porter -- Music and society now / Wilfrid Mellers. |
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Music.
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Music.
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Garvie, Peter.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Music and Western man (Radio program)
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