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Immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within each cultural era and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability to listen critically to key works. --;Part I: Ancient and Medieval music. 1. Music from antiquity to Gregorian chant : ca.1200 BCE to ca.1200 CE ; 2. Secular and cathedral music in the Middle Ages : ca.1100 to ca.1300 ; 3. The Ars nova : musical developments in the fourteenth century -- Part II: The Renaissance. 4. Music in Europe : toward an international style, 1300-1500 ; 5. Church polyphony in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : ca.1475-1600 ; 6. Religious and secular music of the sixteenth century -- Part III: The Baroque era. 7. Humanism and the emergence of opera : 1590-1640 ; 8. Music in Italy, Germany, France, and England : 1600-1740 ; 9. Italian opera seria and the concerto style : 1650-1750 ; 10. Class of 1685 : Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel -- Part IV: The Classical era. 11. The mid-eighteenth century : from Bach's sons to the comic style ; 12. Concert life lifts off, 1725-1800 : Fra
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- Author
- Gibbs, Christopher Howard;Taruskin, Richard
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190862473
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Music, Arts
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (48 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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