A Popular History of the Art of Music

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Author

Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock), 1837-1912

Title

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

Credits

E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- History and criticism

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Text

eBook-No.

20293

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20293

Release Date

January 5, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.A POPULAR HISTORY — OF THE — ART OF MUSIC — From the Earliest Times Until the Present. — With Accounts of the Chief Musical Instruments and Scales; the Principles and Artistic Value of Their Music; together with Biographical Notices of the Greater Composers, Chronological Charts, Specimens of Music, and Many Engravings.
3. 3.BY W. S. B. MATHEWS, — Editor of "Music" Magazine, — CONTENTS — TO
4. 4.DR. FLORENCE ZIEGFELD, — President of the Chicago Musical College — THIS WORK IS — RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
7. 7.CONTENTS. — BOOK FIRST — MUSIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. — BOOK SECOND — APPRENTICE PERIOD OF MODERN MUSIC — BOOK THIRD — THE DAWN OF MODERN MUSIC. — BOOK FOURTH — FLOWERING TIME OF MODERN MUSIC. — BOOK FIFTH — EPOCH OF THE ROMANTIC. — CHRONOLOGY OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS. — CHRONOLOGY OF PRINCIPAL ITALIAN COMPOSERS. — CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF THE MORE IMPORTANT GERMAN COMPOSERS. — CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF PIANISTS AND COMPOSERS FOR THE PIANOFORTE.
8. 8.INTRODUCTION. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — THE — Music of the Ancient World. — PRIMITIVE TYPES OF INSTRUMENTS, AND AN ARTISTIC MONODY, WITHOUT REAL TONALITY.
9. 9.CHAPTER I. — MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
10. 10.CHAPTER II. — MUSIC AMONG THE HEBREWS AND ASSYRIANS. — II.
11. 11.CHAPTER III. — MUSIC AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS.
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. — MUSIC IN INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. — I. — II. — THE — Apprentice Period of Modern Music. — THE DEVELOPMENT OF HARMONY, TONALITY, CANONIC IMITATION AND POLYPHONY. — THE GENERAL POPULARIZATION OF THE ART OF MUSIC IN EVERY DIRECTION.
13. 13.CHAPTER V. — THE NATURE OF THE TRANSFORMATION, AND THE AGENCIES EFFECTING IT.
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. — THE MINSTRELS OF THE NORTH.
15. 15.CHAPTER VII. — THE ARABS OR SARACENS.
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. — ORIGIN OF THE GREAT FRENCH EPICS.
17. 17.CHAPTER IX. — THE TROUBADOURS, TROUVÈRES AND MINNESINGERS.
18. 18.CHAPTER X. — THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
19. 19.CHAPTER XI. — THE DIDACTIC OF MUSIC FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY TO THE FOURTEENTH. — I. — II. — III.
20. 20.CHAPTER XII. — THE RISE OF POLYPHONY. OLD FRENCH AND GALLO-BELGIC SCHOOLS. — I. — II. — III.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII. — THE SCHOOLS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV. — POLYPHONIC SCHOOLS OF ITALY. PALESTRINA.
23. 23.CHAPTER XV. — THE CHANGES IN MUSICAL NOTATION.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVI. — MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THE VIOLIN, ORGAN, ETC. — I. — II. — THE — Dawn of Modern Music. — THE BEGINNING OF FREE EXPRESSION IN SONG, OPERA, ORATORIO AND FREE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVII. — CONDITION OF MUSIC AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
26. 26.CHAPTER XVIII. — FIRST CENTURY OF ITALIAN OPERA AND DRAMATIC SONG.
27. 27.CHAPTER XIX. — BEGINNINGS OF OPERA IN FRANCE AND GERMANY. — I. — II.
28. 28.CHAPTER XX. — THE PROGRESS OF ORATORIO. — I. — II.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXI. — BEGINNINGS OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. — II. — III. — THE — Flowering Time of Modern Music. — BACH, HÄNDEL, HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN. — THE FUGUE AND THE SONATA.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXII. — GENERAL VIEW OF MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIII. — JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIV. — GEO. FREDERICK HÄNDEL.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXV. — EMANUEL BACH; HAYDN; THE SONATA. — I. — II.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVI. — MOZART AND HIS GENIUS.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXVII. — BEETHOVEN AND HIS WORKS.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXVIII. — HAYDN, MOZART AND BEETHOVEN COMPARED.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXIX. — OPERA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXX. — PIANO PLAYING AND VIRTUOSI; THE VIOLIN; TARTINI AND SPOHR. — I. — II. — THE — Period of the Romantic. — WEBER, PAGANINI, SCHUBERT, BERLIOZ, MEYERBEER, MENDELSSOHN, SCHUMANN, CHOPIN, LISZT, WAGNER; THE VIRTUOSI; MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXI. — THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE ROMANTIC; MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXII. — SCHUBERT AND THE ROMANTIC.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIII. — THE STORY OF THE PIANOFORTE.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXIV. — GERMAN OPERA; WEBER, MEYERBEER AND WAGNER. — I. — II. — III. — IV.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXV. — VIRTUOSITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; PAGANINI; BERLIOZ; CHOPIN; LISZT. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVI. — MENDELSSOHN AND SCHUMANN. — I. — II.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXVII. — ITALIAN OPERA DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
46. 46.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — FRENCH OPERATIC COMPOSERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
47. 47.CHAPTER XXXIX. — LATER COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS. — I. Music in Germany. — II. Music in Russia. — III. Music in Bohemia. — IV. Music in Scandinavia. — V. Music in England.
48. 48.INDEX.

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