A survey of choral music.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulrich, Homer, 1906-1987.

Series:

Harbrace history of musical forms.

The Harbrace history of musical forms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choral music.

Physical Description:

ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1973]

Summary:

In this brief text, Homer Ulrich offers students a history of choral music that is as rich and fascinating as the genre itself. Emphasizing those works that represent historical or stylistic turning points, A SURVEY OF CHORAL MUSIC begins several centuries before the invention of the genre and takes students all the way into the twentieth century. Ulrich's descriptive discussions mix history and analysis with explication of musical structures, text sources and treatments, and kinds of texture. The text offers a useful glossary, bibliography, and list of music sources--as well as appendices that provide several principal types of sacred texts (including Requiem Mass, Te Deum, and Magnificat) for quick reference.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 230-232.

ISBN:

0155848631

OCLC:

650026