A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition

Maps Color Plates Preface to the Sixth Edition Abbreviations 1 Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome 2 Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages 3 The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century 4 French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century 5 England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century 6 The Age of Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries 7 New Currents in the Sixteenth Century 8 Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation 9 Music of the Early Baroque Period 10 Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century 11 Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period 12 Music in the Early Eighteenth Century 13 Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period 14 The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart 15 Ludwig van Beethoven 16 Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Music 17 Solo, Chamber and Vocal Music in the Nineteenth Century 18 Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century 19 European Music from the 1870s to World War I 20 The European Mainstream in the Twentieth Century 21 Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe 22 The American Twentieth Century Glossary Credits Index