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[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xxi, 919 pages : illustrations, music. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. The Greek View of Music -- 1. Plato - From the Republic -- 2. Aristotle - From the Politics -- 3. Aristoxenus - From the Harmonic Elements -- 4. Cleonides - Harmonic Introduction -- 5. Athenaeus - From the Sophists at Dinner -- II. The Early Christian View of Music -- 6. Clement of Alexandria - From the Exhortation to the Greeks -- 7. St. Basil - From the Homily on the First Psalm -- 8. St. John Chrysostom - From the Exposition of Psalm XLI -- 9. St. Jerome - From the Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians -- 10. St. Augustine - From the Confessions -- III. Music as a Liberal Art -- 11. Boethius - From the De Institutone Musica -- 12. Cassiodorus - From the Institutiones -- 13. Isidore of Seville - From the Etymologiarum -- IV. Musical theory in the Middle Ages -- 14. Odo of Cluny - Enchiridion Musices -- 15. Guido of Arezzo - Prologus antiphoarii sui -- 16. Guido of Arezzo - Epistola de ignoto cantu -- 17. Anonymous - From the Scholia enchiriadis -- 18. Franco of Cologne - Ars cantus mensurabilis -- 19. Marchetto da Padua - From the Pomerium -- 20. Jean de Muris - From the Ars novae musicae -- 21. Jacob of Liege - From the Speculum musicae -- V. Musical Theorists of the Renaissance -- 22. Joannes Tinctoris - Proportionale musices - Dedication -- 23. Joannes Tinctoris - Liber de arte contrapuncti - Dedication -- 24. Bartolome Ramos - From the Musica practica -- 25. Pietro Aron - From the Trattato della natura e cognizione di tutti gli toni di canto figurato -- 26. Heinrich Glarean - From the Dodecachordon -- 27. Gioseffe Zarlino - From the Istituzioni armoniche -- 28. Pietro Cerone - From El melopeo y maestro -- 29. Thomas Morley - From A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music -- VI. Music in Renaissance Life and Thought -- 30. Baldassare Castiglione - From I1 cortgiano -- 31. Pierre de Ronsard - Livre des melanges - Dedication -- 32. Giovanni de' Bardi - Discorso mandato a Giulio Caccini -- 33. Vincenzo Galilei - From the Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna -- 34. G.P. da Palestrina - Motettorum liber quartus - Dedication -- 35. Orlando di Lasso - Cantiones sacrae of 1593 - Dedication -- 36. William Byrd - Gradualia - Dedications and forewords -- 37. Henry Peacham - From The Compleat Gentleman -- VII. Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- 38. Martin Luther - Wittemberg Gesangbuch - Foreword to the first edition -- 39. Johann Walther - Wittemberg Gesangbuch - Foreword to the revised edition -- 40. Jean Calvin - Geneva Psalter - Foreword -- 41. Claude Goudiel - Geneva Psalter - Foreword to the edition of 1565 -- 42. Thomas Cranmer - Letter to Henry VIII -- 43. Thomas East - The Whole Book of Psalms - Dedication and preface -- 44. Jacob de Kerle - Precess speciales - Dedication -- 45. Pope Gregory XIII - Brief on the Reform of the Chant -- VIII. "Seconda Pratica" and "Stile Rappresentativo" -- 46. Pietro de' Bardi - Letter to G.B.Doni -- 47. Ottavio Rinuccini - Euridice - Dedication -- 48. Giulio Caccini - Euridice - Dedication -- 49. Jacopo Peri - Eruidice - Foreword -- 50. Giulio Caccini - Le nuove musiche - Foreword -- 51. G.M. Artusi - From L'Artusi, ovvero, Delle imperfezioni della moderna musica -- 52. Claudio Monteverdi -- IL quinto libro de' madrgali - Foreword wih the "Declaration" of His Brother G.C. Monteverdi -- 53. Claudio Monteverdi - Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi - Foreword -- IX. Musical Practice in the Baroque Age -- 54. Lodovico Grossi da Viadana - Cento concerti ecclesiastici - Preface -- 55. Agostino Agazzari - Del sonare sopra il basso -- 56. Heinrich Schutz - Symphoniae sacrae - Dedications and forewords -- 57. Georg Muffat - Florilegia and Auserlesene Instrumental-Music - Forewords -- 58. F.E.Niedt - Musikalische Handleitung - Foreword -- X. Operatic Rivalry in France: Pro and Contra Lully -- 59. Francios Raguenet - Parallele des Italiens et des Francais -- 60. Le Cerf de La Vieville, Seigneur de Freneuse - From the Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique francaise -- XI. Critical views of Italian Opera: Addison and Marcello -- 61. Joseph Addison - From the Spectator -- 62. Benedetto Marcello - From IL teatro alla moda -- |
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XII. The Reformulation of the Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint -- 63. J.J. Fux - From the Gradus ad Parnassum -- 64. J.P.Rameau - From the Traite de L'harmonie -- XIII. The Transition to the Musical Practice of the Classical Period -- 65. J.J.Quantz - From the Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere zu spielen -- 66. Leopold Mozart - From the Versuch einer grundlichen Viloinschule -- 67. C.P.E.Bach - From the Versuch uber die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen -- XIV. Operatic Rivalry in France: the "Querelle Des Bouffons" -- 68. F.W.von Grimm - Le petit prohete de Boehmisch-Broda -- 69. J.J. Rousseau - Letter sur la musique francaise -- XV. Critical Views of Italian Opera: Algarotti and Gluck -- 70. Francesco Algarotti - From the Saggio sopra L'opera in musica -- 71. C.W.von Gluck - Alceste - Dedication -- 72. F.L.Du Roullet - Letter to M.d'Auvergne -- 73. C.W.von Gluck - Letter to the Editor of the "Mercure de France" -- XVI. The European Scene -- 74. Charles Burney - From The Present State of Music in France and Italy -- 75. J.F. Reichardt - From the Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden -- 76. A.E.M.Gretry - From the Memoires -- 77. J.F.Reichardt - From the Briefe geschrieben auf einer Reise nach Wien -- XVII. Literary Forerunners of Musical Romanticism -- 78. Jean Paul - From the Vorschule der Aesthetik -- 79. W.H. Wackenroder - The Remarkable Musical Life of the Musician Joseph Berglinger -- 80. Jean Paul - From the Hesperus -- 81. E.T.A. Hoffmann - Beethoven's Instrumental Music -- 82. E.T.A.Hoffmann - The Poet and the Composer -- XVIII. Composer-Critics of the Nineteenth Century -- 83. C.M. von Weber - On the Opera " Undine" -- 84. Hector Berlioz - Rossini's "William Tell" -- 85. Robert Schumann -- Davidsbundlerblatter -- 86. Franz Liszt - From Berlioz and His "Harold" Symphony -- 87. Richard Wagner - From Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft |
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Music -- History and criticism -- Sources.
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Music. |
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Sources.
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