How Music Developed

About this eBook

Author

Henderson, W. J. (William James), 1855-1937

Title

How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music

Credits

Produced by Jude Eylander, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

43467

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43467

Release Date

August 14, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music
2. 2.BY W. J. HENDERSON Author of " The Story Of Music ," " Preludes and Studies ," and " What is Good Music ?"
3. 3.Table of Contents
4. 4.How Music Developed Chapter I — The Beginning of Modern Music
5. 5.Chapter II — Harmony, Notation, and Measure
6. 6.Chapter III — The Birth of Counterpoint
7. 7.Chapter IV — The Golden Age of Church Counterpoint
8. 8.Chapter V — Progress of Popular Music
9. 9.Chapter VI — The Simplification of Music
10. 10.Chapter VII — The Evolution of the Piano
11. 11.Chapter VIII — The Evolution of Piano Playing
12. 12.Chapter IX — Climax of the Polyphonic Piano Style
13. 13.Chapter X — Monophonic Style and the Sonata
14. 14.Chapter XI — Evolution of the Orchestra
15. 15.Chapter XII — The Classic Orchestral Composers
16. 16.Chapter XIII — The Romantic Orchestral Composers
17. 17.Chapter XIV — The Development of Chamber Music
18. 18.Chapter XV — The Birth of Oratorio
19. 19.Chapter XVI — Work of Handel and Bach
20. 20.Chapter XVII — Haydn and Mendelssohn
21. 21.Chapter XVIII — The Birth of Opera
22. 22.Chapter XIX — Italian Opera to Handel's Time
23. 23.Chapter XX — Italian Opera to Verdi
24. 24.Chapter XXI — Beginnings of French Opera
25. 25.Chapter XXII — The Reforms of Gluck
26. 26.Chapter XXIII — Meyerbeer and his Influence
27. 27.Chapter XXIV — German Opera to Mozart
28. 28.Chapter XXV — Weber and Beethoven
29. 29.Chapter XXVI — Wagner and the Music Drama
30. 30.Chapter XXVII — The Lessons of Musical History
31. 31.Index

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