A concise history of western music
Griffiths, Paul2006
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Paul Griffiths shows how music has evolved through the centuries and suggests how its evolution has mirrored developments in the human notion of time, from the eternity of heaven to the computer's microsecond.
Main title:
A concise history of western music / by Paul Griffiths
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Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006
Collation:
348 p.
Contents:
Pt. I. Time whole -- 1. From Babylonians to Franks -- Pt. II. Time measured 1100-1400 -- 2. Troubadours and organists -- 3. Ars nova and Narcissus's clock -- Pt. III. Time sensed 1400-1630 -- 4. Harmony, the light of time -- 5. The radiance of the high Renaissance -- 6. Reformation and heartache -- 7. To speak in music -- Pt. IV. Time known 1630-1770 -- 8. Baroque mornings -- 9. Fugue, concerto and operatic passion -- 10. Rococo and reform -- Pt. V. Time embraced 1770-1815 -- 11. Sonata as comedy -- 12. Revolution's momentum -- Pt. VI. Time escaping 1815-1907 -- 13. The deaf man and the singer -- 14. Angels and other prodigies -- 15. New Germans and old Vienna -- 16. Romantic evenings -- 17. Nightfall and sunrise -- Pt. VII. Time tangled 1908-1975 -- 18. To begin again -- 19. Forwards and backwards, and sideways -- 20. The people's needs -- 21. To begin again again -- 22. Whirlwind -- Pt. VIII. Time lost 1975- -- 23. Echoes in the labyrinth -- 24. Interlude
ISBN:
0521842948 (hbk)
Dewey class:
780.9 CON
Local class:
780.9
Language:
English
BRN:
19226
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