Critical and Historical Essays

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Author

MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908

Title

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

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Produced by David Newman, Daniel Emerson Griffith and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- History and criticism

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eBook-No.

16351

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16351

Release Date

July 24, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS — Lectures delivered at Columbia University BY EDWARD MACDOWELL — EDITED BY W.J. BALTZELL — London ELKIN & CO., Ltd., 8 & 10 Beak Street, Regent Street, W. — CONSTABLE & CO., Ltd., 10 Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C. — Boston, U.S.A., ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT — Copyright, 1912, by ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT A.P.S. 9384 — Stanhope Press F.H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON, U.S.A.
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.I THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC
5. 5.II ORIGIN OF SONG vs. ORIGIN OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
6. 6.III THE MUSIC OF THE HEBREWS AND THE HINDUS
7. 7.IV THE MUSIC OF THE EGYPTIANS, ASSYRIANS, AND CHINESE
8. 8.V THE MUSIC OF THE CHINESE ( Continued )
9. 9.VI THE MUSIC OF GREECE — LIST OF NOTES IN THE GREEK SCALE
10. 10.VII THE MUSIC OF THE ROMANS—THE EARLY CHURCH — SUMMARY
11. 11.VIII FORMATION OF THE SCALE—NOTATION — The Gamut. — Present Scale. — DIRGE FOR KING RICHARD'S DEATH
12. 12.IX THE SYSTEMS OF HUCBALD AND GUIDO D'AREZZO—THE BEGINNING OF COUNTERPOINT
13. 13.X MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS—THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
14. 14.XI FOLK SONG AND ITS RELATION TO NATIONALISM IN MUSIC — Three or four note (simple) — Emotional (simple) — Emotional and Composite — Howl and Emotion
15. 15.XII THE TROUBADOURS, MINNESINGERS AND MASTERSINGERS — PASTORELLA BY THIBAUT II, KING OF NAVARRE, 1254.
16. 16.XIII EARLY INSTRUMENTAL FORMS — OLD DANCE FORMS (1650–1750). — ANALYSIS OF OLD DANCES — MODERN FORMS (1800).
17. 17.XIV THE MERGING OF THE SUITE INTO THE SONATA
18. 18.XV THE DEVELOPMENT OF PIANOFORTE MUSIC
19. 19.XVI THE MYSTERY AND MIRACLE PLAY — EURYDICE—PERI.
20. 20.XVII OPERA
21. 21.XVIII OPERA (Continued)
22. 22.XIX ON THE LIVES AND ART PRINCIPLES OF SOME SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMPOSERS
23. 23.XX DECLAMATION IN MUSIC
24. 24.XXI SUGGESTION IN MUSIC
25. 25.INDEX — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — Q. — R. — S. — T. — V. — W. — Z. — Transcriber's Note

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