The History of Music

The History of Music by Waldo Selden Pratt

G. Schirmer, New York, 1907

1. Prefatory note
2. Contents
3. Illustrations
4. Introduction: The History of Music in General
5. Primitive or Savage Music
6. Semi-Civilized Music
7. Greek and Roman Music
8. The Rise of Christian Music
9. Polyphony and Secular Song
10. The Fifteenth Century
11. The Venetian and Roman Schools
12. Church Music in Northern and Western Europe
13. Secular Music. Instruments. Theory
14. The Early Musical Drama
15. The Expansion of Dramatic Music
16. Progress in Church Music
17. The Organ Style
18. The Violin. Musical Literature
19. Church Music in Bach's Time
20. The Culmination of the Early Italian Opera
21. Instruments and Instrumentalists
22. Forms of Composition. Theory. Literature.
23. Haydn. The Sonata and the Orchestra
24. Gluck and the Dramatic Reform
25. Mozart and the Exaltation of Melody
26. The Rise of Pianism. Sacred Music.
27. Theoretical and Literary Progress
28. The Advent of Beethoven
29. The Romantic Opera and the Song
30. Italian and French Opera
31. Instrumental Virtuosity
32. Church and Organ Music
33. Growth of Musical Literature
34. Schumann and Romanticism
35. Mendelssohn and the Leipsic Circle
36. New Lights upon Pianism
37. The Opera Aside from Wagner
38. Wagner and the Reconstruction of the Opera
39. Symphonists and Instrumentalists
40. Choral Music. The Song. The English School
41. Musical Education and Literature
42. Brief Sketch of the Later Nineteenth Century
43. Index of Subjects and Places
44. Index of Persons

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