Music, History, and Ideas / Hugo Leichtentritt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leichtentritt, Hugo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

15th printing 1973. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. THE MUSIC OF THE GREEKS

CHAPTER TWO. GREGORIAN CHANT AND ROMANESQUE ART

CHAPTER THREE. THE GOTHIC PERIOD

CHAPTER FOUR. THE RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER FIVE. THE REFORMATION

CHAPTER SIX. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BAROQUE

CHAPTER SEVEN. BAROQUE AND RATIONALISTIC TRAITS IN BACH AND HANDEL

CHAPTER EIGHT. CLASSICAL TENDENCIES OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER NINE. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC AGE

CHAPTER TEN. THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE "MUSIC OF THE FUTURE"

CHAPTER TWELVE. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

POSTSCRIPT, 1947

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-43073-5

OCLC:

1024017138