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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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The History of Music in General 17


PART I. UNCIVILIZED AND ANCIENT MUSIC

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I. Primitive or Savage Music 25

II. Semi-Civilized Music 32

III. Greek and Roman Music 50


PART II. MEDIÆVAL MUSIC

IV. The Rise of Christian Music 63

V. Polyphony and Secular Song 77

VI. The Fifteenth Century 93


PART III. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

VII. The Venetian and Roman Schools 111

VIII. Church Music in Northern and Western Europe 128

IX. Secular Music. Instruments. Theory 147


PART IV. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

X. The Early Musical Drama 165

XI. The Expansion of Dramatic Music 180

XII. Progress in Church Music 194

XIII. The Organ Style 214

XIV. The Violin. Musical Literature 229


PART V. THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

XV. Church Music in Bach's Time 249

XVI. The Culmination of the Early Italian Opera 273