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xvi, 516, xxxii pages : illustrations (music) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The earliest beginnings -- The rise of the art of music -- The growth of musical form -- The writing of music -- The development of notation -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Harmony -- Timbre -- The elements of form -- The fugue -- "First movement" form -- The rest of the sonata -- Some definitions and technicalities -- Interlude: Program music -- How the orchestra began -- The strings -- Wood-wind, brass, and percussion -- The orchestra grows -- Keyboard instruments -- The organ -- Instruments of the future -- Introduction -- First beginnings -- The strings -- Wood-wind -- Brass -- Percussion. Balance. Six typical orchestras -- Trombones and horns -- The orchestral revolution -- The orchestra today -- Arrangement of instruments in a full score -- The orchestra on the platform -- The conductor's role - A glance at orchestration -- Some string devices in orchestration -- Wood-wind devices in orchestration -- Brass devices in orchestration -- Percussion and harp in orchestration -- The symphony -- Haydn and Mozart -- Beethoven -- The Romanticists and after -- Schubert and Dvorak -- Brahms -- Russia, Scandinavia, and Finland -- The British symphonists -- Mainly of suites -- Overtures, variations, and rhapsodies -- Miscellaneous music -- Program music -- The operatic convention -- Origins -- The renaissance -- Early Italian opera: Monteverdi -- Standardization -- Vienna and Paris: Lulli -- England: Purcell. Germany -- Survey of the seventeenth century -- Italian influence: Scarlatti -- More about conventions -- The male soprano -- Metastasio. The French school: Rameau -- Comic opera in Italy and France -- English comic opera. The European position -- Gluck -- Mozart -- Cherubini. Beethoven -- Cimarosa. Rossini -- Bellini Donizetti. Auber -- Romantism and Weber -- Wagner -- Wagnerianism -- Operetta -- Verdi -- French opera -- Mascagni. Leoncavallo. Puccini -- From Wagner to Strauss -- The Russians -- "The moderns" in Fance Spain -- "The moderns" in Germany -- Modes and plainsong -- Minstrels and troubadours -- Diaphony and descant -- England and Flanders: Dunstable and Dufay -- Flanders and Italy: Palestrina -- Tudor times: Morley and Gibbons -- John Dowland and the Elizabethans -- Stuart times -- Purcell -- From Purcell to Wesley -- The British Isles -- Europe -- Carols -- Origins -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Handel -- Choral music after Handel -- Schubert -- Schumann and some others -- Brahms -- Hugo Wolf -- French song -- Other nations -- Debussy. Strauss. Mahler -- Elgar -- The English Renaissance -- The European front -- Early beginnings in England and Abroad -- The coming of the violin -- The parents of chamber music -- The new art is born -- A pause for definition -- Chamber music and sonata form -- Haydn: First period -- Mozart -- Haydn: second period -- Some contemporaries of Haydn -- Beethoven: First period -- Beethoven: Second period -- Beethoven: Third period -- The romantic dawn -- Schubert -- The romantic leaders -- Minor romantics -- Brahms -- Germany after Brahms -- Nationalism and chamber music -- Bohemia -- Scandinavia -- Russia: Tchaikovsky -- Russia: the Kutchka -- Russia: Glazounov -- Russia: Belaiev's influence -- France: Franck, Debussy, and after -- Italy -- Pioneers: Elgar and Vaughnan William -- W. W. Cobbett and Lionel tertis -- The english treasury: Bridge, Ireland, and Bax -- Later developments -- Some national schools -- Anti-romanticism -- Music and mechanism -- Composer and instrument -- Virginal and harpischord -- Pianoforte sonatas -- The concertos -- Fantasias and other pieces; Arrangements -- The classics -- The romantics and the moderns -- The standard works -- The virtuoso as composer -- Lesser concertos. Some miscellaneous works -- The 'cello concertos -- The 'cello sonatas and other works -- The viola works -- Two pianofortes and unusual combinations. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Music -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Music -- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation.
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Musique -- Histoire et critique. |
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Musique -- Appréciation. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Bacharach, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1891-1966.
Musical companion.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Erskine, John, 1879-1951. Musical companion. [New York] Tudor Pub. Co., 1948 [©1935] (OCoLC)645399104 |
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