Music in Western civilization / Craig Wright, Bryan Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Craig M.

Contributor:

Simms, Bryan R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xxix, 832 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Belmont, CA : Thomson Schirmer, [2005]

Summary:

Understand music in context with MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION! Clear and easy-to-understand, this music text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in this course. With a focus on the history of music in the wider context of Western civilization, you will see how study of music history is important to the practice and performance of music today. Numerous full-color photographs, maps, and timelines give you a sense of the place of music within the arts and humanities in the West. Class preparation is made easy with the book-specific website that contains features such as additional musical selections, a music glossary, unit resources, and more.

Contents:

Part I Antiquity and the Middle Ages

1 Music in Ancient Greece 2

Music in Greek Society 3

The Nature of Greek Music 6

Music in Greek Philosophy 7

Greek Music Theory 8

2 Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the Early Christian World 12

Rome 12

Jerusalem and the Rise of Early Christian Music 14

3 Music in the Monastery and Convent 17

The Monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland 18

The Canonical Hours: The Work of the Lord 19

Gregorian Chant in the Monastery 20

Gregorian Chant for Vespers 21

Gregorian Chant for the Mass 23

4 Music Theory in the Monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo 28

The Eight Church Modes 29

Chant Notation 30

Musical Staff and Pitch Names 30

Hexachords 31

The Guidonian Hand 33

5 Later Medieval Chant: Tropes, Sequences, and the Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen 34

Tropes 35

Sequences 36

Music in the Convent: The Chant and Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen 38

6 Troubadours and Trouveres 41

The Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine 43

Trouveres 45

7 Early Polyphony 47

Organum in Music Theory Sources 47

Organum in Practical Sources 49

8 Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame 52

Notre Dame of Paris 53

Leoninus and the Magnus liber organi 54

Perotinus the Great 58

9 Music in the Cathedral Close and University: Conductus and Motet 61

Conductus 63

Motet 65

10 In the Parisian Master's Study: Music Theory of the Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova 70

Franco of Cologne and the Art of Measured Song 71

Jean des Murs and Philippe de Vitry: The Ars Nova 72

11 Music at the Court of the French Kings 75

The Roman de Fauvel 76

Philippe de Vitry 77

Royal Dances 78

Musical Instruments at Court and in Church 80

12 Fourteenth-Century Music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut 82

Machaut, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years' War 83

Machaut and the Formes fixes 84

Machaut and the Mass of Our Lady 87

13 Avignon, Symbolic Scores, and the Ars Subtilior 89

Papal Avignon 89

Baude Cordier and Symbolic Scores 91

Philippus de Caserta: The Ars Subtilior 93

Musical Interlude 1 From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Performance 95

Part II The Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

14 Music in Florence, 1350-1450 104

Trecento Music and the Squarcialupi Codex 105

Francesco Landini 107

15 Music at the Cathedral of Florence 110

16 Music in England 115

Rondellus and Rota 116

English Faburden and Continental Fauxbourdon 118

King Henry V: The Old Hall Manuscript and the Carol 119

John Dunstaple and the Contenance Angloise 121

17 Music at the Court of Burgundy 123

Gilles Binchois and the Burgundian Chanson 125

Guillaume Dufay: A Lament and a Mass for the Christian Soldier 127

18 Music at the French Royal Court 131

Johannes Ockeghem and Musical Canons 132

A Musical Joke for the French King 135

Philippe Basiron and the Paraphrase Motet 136

Antoine Busnoys and the Imitative Chanson 137

19 Music in the Low Countries 140

Jacob Obrecht and the Multiple Cantus Firmus Mass 140

Musical Instruments 142

The Basse Danse 143

Part III The Late Renaissance

Musical Interlude 2 Musical Humanism and the Renaissance 148

20 Popular Music in Florence, 1475-1540: Carnival Song and Lauda, Frottola, and Early Madrigal 150

The Carnival Song and the Lauda 150

The Frottola 153

The Early Madrigal in Florence 155

21 Josquin des Prez and Music in Ferrara 158

Josquin des Prez 159

Josquin's Music for Duke Hercules of Ferrara 159

Josquin and an Artist's Temperament 163

Musical Interlude 3 Music Printing in the Renaissance 165

22 Music in Renaissance Paris 168

The Parisian Chanson 168

Claudin de Sermisy 169

Instrumental Arrangements 171

Dance Music 173

23 Renaissance Instruments and Instrumental Music 177

Keyboard Instruments 178

String Instruments 179

Wind Instruments 181

Instrumental Genres 182

Musical Interlude 4 Music Theory in the Renaissance 186

24 Music in Three German Cities: The Protestant-Catholic Confrontation 190

Innsbruck: Music under Emperor Maximilian I 191

The Reformation: Music in Augsburg 194

Orlande de Lassus and the Court of Munich 198

Epilogue: The Psalter in Other Protestant Countries 201

25 Rome and the Music of the Counter-Reformation 203

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 204

Spanish Music during the Counter-Reformation 209

26 Music in Elizabethan England: Early Vocal Music 210

Henry VIII as Musician and Church Reformer 210

Thomas Tallis and the English Psalm 212

William Byrd and the English Anthem 214

27 Music in Elizabethan England: Instrumental Music and Later Vocal Music 217

English Keyboard Music 218

The English Madrigal 219

The English Lute Ayre 221

28 The Later Madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi 222

The Madrigal in Ferrara 223

Carlo Gesualdo 225

Music in Mantua: Isabella d'Este 227

Claudio Monteverdi 228

Part IV Baroque Music

29 Early Baroque Music 234

Characteristics of Early Baroque Music 236

30 The Birth of Opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice 240

Early Opera in Florence 240

Early Opera in Mantua: Monteverdi's Orfeo 244

Early Opera in Venice 248

31 The Concerted Style in Venice and Dresden 251

Giovanni Gabrieli and the Concerted Motet 254

Claudio Monteverdi and the Concerted Madrigal 254

Barbara Strozzi and the Early Baroque Cantata 256

The Concerted Style Moves North: Heinrich Schutz in Dresden 258

32 Religious Music in Baroque Rome 262

The Cappella Pontificia Sistina and the Stile Antico 263

St.

Peter's Basilica and the Colossal Baroque 265

Organ Music by Girolamo Frescobaldi 267

Sacred Opera and Oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte 269

The Chamber Cantata: A Christmas Cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti 272

33 Instrumental Music in Italy 274

The Violin Family 274

Formation of the Baroque Orchestra 275

Church and Chamber Music 277

Salomone Rossi and the Early Baroque Sonata 277

Arcangelo Corelli: Solo Sonata and Trio Sonata 279

Trumpet Music by Giuseppe Torelli: The Beginnings of the Solo Concerto 282

Antonio Vivaldi: Solo Concerto and Concerto Grosso 284

34 Instrumental Music in Germany and Austria 288

Johann Froberger and the Baroque Dance Suite 289

Biber and Kuhnau: The Programmatic Sonata 291

Dieterich Buxtehude and the North German Organ Tradition 296

Johann Pachelbel and the South German Tradition 299

35 Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Vocal Music 301

Ballet de cour 302

Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tragedie lyrique 303

Religious Music 307

Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and the Cantate francaise 307

36 Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Instrumental Music 310

The Gaultiers: French Lute Music 310

The Couperins: French Harpsichord Music 313

Musical Interlude 5 From Ancient to Modern: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory 319

37 Music in London: Henry Purcell 322

Henry Purcell and Theater Music 323

Purcell's Odes and Funeral Music for Queen Mary 326

38 Music in London: George Frideric Handel 330

Handel and the Dance Suite 331

Handel and Opera 333

Handel and Oratorio 336

39 Johann Sebastian Bach: Instrumental Music in Weimar and Cothen 340

Bach in Weimar: The Organ Music 342

Bach in Cothen: Chamber and Orchestral Music 346

40 Johann Sebastian Bach: Vocal Music in Leipzig 352

The Lutheran Chorale Cantata 353

Bach's Later Musical Projects 358

Part V The Enlightenment and the Classical ERA

41 Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Opera 366

Music of the Establishment: Enlightenment Opera Seria 367

Music and Social Change: Comic Opera 370

The Reform Operas of Gluck 374

42 Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Orchestral Music 378

Public Concerts 378

The Early Symphony: Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Milan 379

The Rise of Orchestral Discipline: Johann Stamitz in Mannheim 382

43 Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Keyboard Music 385

Domestic Keyboard Music for Women 385

The Advent of the Piano 387

Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid 387

The Clavichord in Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 389

The Piano in London: Johann Christian Bach 392

44 Classical Music in Vienna 396

Classical Style 396

Classical Forms 397

Classical Genres 400

The Classical Orchestra 403

Classical Composers 404

45 Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music 405

The Life of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 406

Haydn's Early and Middle Symphonies 407

Haydn's String Quartets 410

Haydn's Sonatas and Concertos 413

46 Joseph Haydn: Late Symphonies and Vocal Music 415

The Paris Symphonies 416

The London Symphonies 417

The Late Vocal Music 419

47 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Instrumental Music 422

The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 422

Symphonies 423

Chamber Music 428

Piano and Violin Sonatas 429

Concertos 432

48 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vocal Music 434

Requiem Mass 439

49 The Early Music of Beethoven 443

Years of Apprenticeship: 1770-1792 444

Beethoven's World in 1792 445

Vienna: 1792-1802 446

Piano Music and the "Pathetique" Sonata 447

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major 449

The Onset of Deafness 452

50 Beethoven's Middle Period: 1802-1814 454

Beethoven's Life and Music During the Middle Period 454

Beethoven's Symphonies: New Paths 455

The Opera Fidelio 459

Affairs of the Heart: The Immortal Beloved 462

51 After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven's Late Music 464

Music at the Congress of Vienna 465

Beethoven's Life and Works in His Late Period 465

Beethoven's Death and Funeral 470

Part VI The romantic Period

Musical Interlude 6 Romanticism 474

52 Franz Schubert 475

Schubert's Life 475

Schubert's Music: Works for Voices 477

Chamber, Piano, and Orchestral Compositions 478

Schubert's Songs 480

53 Music in Paris Under Louis Philippe: Berlioz and Chopin 486

Musical Culture in Paris 487

Hector Berlioz 489

Frederic Chopin 495

54 Leipzig and the Gewandhaus: Felix Mendelssohn and the Schumanns 500

Music in Saxony 500

Felix Mendelssohn: Life and Music 501

Robert Schumann 505

Clara Schumann 509

55 German Opera of the Nineteenth Century: Weber and Wagner 511

Carl Maria von Weber 512

Richard Wagner 515

Wagner's Music and Theories of Opera 516

Das Rheingold 517

56 Opera in Italy: Rossini and Verdi 521

Gioachino Rossini 522

Giuseppe Verdi 525

Verdi and the Risorgimento 526

Verdi and Wagner 529

57 Nationalism and Virtuosity: Franz Liszt 530

Liszt's Life and Works 531

Liszt and the Piano 533

Liszt, Wagner, and the New German School 536

Music for Orchestra: The Symphonic Poem 537

58 Vienna in the Late Nineteenth Century: Brahms and Bruckner 539

Vienna in the 1860s 539

Brahms's Life and Works 541

Brahms's Vocal Music 544

Anton Bruckner 545

59 Music and Ballet in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky 548

St. Petersburg in the Late Nineteenth Century 549

The Kuchka 549

Modest Mussorgsky 550

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 551

Ballet 552

Ballet in Russia: The Nutcracker 553

60 Vienna at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gustav and Alma Mahler 557

Mahler's Life 557

Mahler's Songs 558

Mahler's Symphonies 560

Alma Mahler: Musician and Muse 563

61 England at the End of the Romantic Period: Elgar and Vaughan Williams 565

The English Choir Festivals 566

Edward Elgar 567

English Music After Elgar: Ralph Vaughan Williams 571

62 Opera in Milan After Verdi: Puccini, Toscanini, and Verismo 573

The Opera Business 573

Innovations at La Scala 574

Arturo Toscanini 574

Puccini at La Scala 575

Verismo Opera 578

63 Paris in the Belle Epoque: Debussy, Faure, and Lili Boulanger 579

New Poetry 580

Impressionism in Painting 581

New Realities: Claude Debussy 581

Harmonic Chemistry in Debussy's Piano Music 583

Debussy's Orchestral Music 585

Gabriel Faure 587

The Spread of Debussyism: Lili Boulanger 587

Part VII The Early Twentieth Century

Musical Interlude 7 Music After 1900 592

64 Richard Strauss in Berlin 593

Berlin 593

Richard Strauss 594

Music of the Opera 597

Strauss and "Progress" 598

65 Music in Russia During the Silver Age: Igor Stravinsky 600

Realism in Russian Art and Literature 601

Music During the Silver Age 602

Sergei Diaghilev and The World of Art 602

The Ballets Russes 603

Igor Stravinsky 604

The Russian Revolution 609

66 Atonality: Schoenberg and Scriabin 611

New Music and Abstract Art 611

Arnold Schoenberg 612

The Atonal Style 613

The Evolution of Schoenberg's Atonal Style 615

Other Atonalists: Alexander Scriabin 618

67 French Music at the Time of World War I: Ravel and Satie 620

Maurice Ravel 621

Erik Satie 623

World War I 625

68 New Music in Paris After World War I: Stravinsky and The Six 627

Musical Life in Paris 627

Regaining Control 628

Igor Stravinsky and the Neoclassical Style 629

Darius Milhaud and "The Six" 631

69 Vienna in the Aftermath of War: Twelve-Tone Methods 633

Austria After 1918 634

Organizing the Twelve Tones 634

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Method 636

Anfon Webern 640

70 Musical Theater in Germany in the 1920s: Berg and Weill 644

Georg Buchner 645

Alban Berg's Wozzeck 646

Kurt Weill 649

71 Bela Bartok and Hungarian Folk Music 652

Bela Bartok 653

Hungarian Peasant Music 654

Bartok's Use of Folk Music 655

72 Early Jazz 659

The Sources of Early Jazz: Ragtime 660

Blues 662

Popular Songs 663

Dance Music 664

73 Paul Hindemith and Music in Nazi Germany 668

Musical Life Under the Nazis 669

Hindemith's Life and Works 670

Hindemith's Theory of the Twelve Tones 670

74 Music in Soviet Russia: Prokofiev and Shostakovich 676

Sergei Prokofiev 677

Musical Culture in the Soviet Union 677

Dmitri Shostakovich 682

Early Works and Successes 682

Later Works and Controversies 684

75 Self-Reliance in American Music: Ives, Seeger, Nancarrow 687

Music in Colonial America 687

Nineteenth-Century Developments 688

Charles Ives 689

Aesthetics 690

Ives's Music: Vocal Works 691

Ives's Instrumental Music: The Unanswered Question 692

Later Figures: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Conlon Nancarrow 693

76 American Composers Return from Europe: Copland and Barber 697

Copland's Life and Music 698

The Formation of a Style 698

Samuel Barber 704

Barber's Life and Works 704

77 Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway Musical 707

The Popular Song Business 707

George Gershwin 708

The Broadway Musical 710

Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! 711

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story 712

Musicals of the 1960s and Beyond 716

Part VIII Contemporary Music

Musical Interlude 8 After World War II 720

78 Reflections on War: Britten, Penderecki, and Others 721

Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen 722

Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw 723

Benjamin Britten and the War Requiem 724

Krzysztof Penderecki

79 Twelve-Tone Music and Serialism After World War II 730

The Twelve-Tone Revival 731

Milton Babbitt and "Total Serialism" 732

Igor Stravinsky, Agon 735

Pierre Boulez, Le marteau sans maitre 738

The Waning of the Twelve-Tone Method 740

80 Alternatives to Serialism: Chance, Electronics, Textures 741

Chance Music: John Cage 742

Electronic Music: Edgard Varese 745

New Musical Textures: Olivier Messiaen 748

81 Harlem in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s: Big Bands, Bebop, and Cool Jazz 751

Jazz in Harlem 751

The Big Bands: Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington 752

Bebop 756

Cool and Free Jazz 757

Musical Interlude 9 The Birth of Rock 759

82 Music in the 1960s and 1970s: Live Processes, Minimalism, Metric Modulations 761

New Uses of the Voice: Luciano Berio and George Crumb 762

Elliott Carter 766

Minimalism: Steve Reich 769

83 Returning to the Known: Music of the Recent Past 772

Mixing Styles: Gyorgy Ligeti 773

The Transformation of Minimalism: John Adams 776

Reviving the Recent Past: Joan Tower 779

The Renaissance Reborn: Arvo Part 780

Music in the Twenty-First Century 782.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0534619622

OCLC:

61286312