A Complete History of Music / for Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading
by W. J. Baltzell
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Lesson I. Music of the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos
- Lesson II. Music of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews
- Lesson III. Music of the Greeks: Scales
- Lesson IV. Music of the Greeks ( Concluded )
- Lesson V. Ecclesiastical System
- Lesson Vi. Notation
- Lesson VII. Music Outside the Church
- Lesson VIII. The Causes of Polyphonic Development and the Importance of the Polyphonic Era
- Lesson IX. The Paris School
- Lesson X. The Gallo-Belgic School
- Lesson Xi. The English School
- Lesson XII. The School of the Netherlands
- Lesson XIII. The Italian School
- Lesson XIV. Palestrina and His Influence on the Music of the Italian School. The Madrigal
- Lesson XV. Musical Instruments
- Lesson XVI. The Organ, Organ Playing and Organ Music
- Lesson XVII. The Beginning of the Opera
- Lesson XVIII. The Oratorio. Development of the Opera
- Lesson XIX. Alessandro Scarlatti and the Neapolitan School
- Lesson XX. Singing and Singers
- Lesson XXI. Opera in France and England
- Lesson XXII. The Opera in Germany. Handel and Gluck
- Lesson XXIII. Mozart to Rossini
- Lesson XXIV. The Oratorio
- Lesson XXV. The Evolution of the Pianoforte
- Lesson XXVI. The Early Italian Clavier Composers
- Lesson XXVII. The Early English and French Clavier Schools
- Lesson XXVIII. The German Polyphonic Clavier School
- Lesson XXIX. The German Sonata Composers, to Haydn
- Lesson XXX. Franz Joseph Haydn
- Lesson XXXI. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Lesson XXXII. Ludwig van Beethoven
- Lesson XXXIII. Beethoven and the Sonata
- Lesson XXXIV. The Violin and its Makers
- Lesson XXXV. Violin Playing and Violin Music
- Lesson XXXVI. The Orchestra and Absolute Music
- Lesson XXXVII. The Romantic Opera. Weber, Spohr, Marschner
- Lesson XXXVIII. The French School of the XIXth Century
- Lesson XXXIX. The Italian School of the XIXth Century
- Lesson XL. Richard Wagner’s Music Dramas. Other Schools
- Lesson XLI. Piano Playing and Composition: Clementi to Field
- Lesson XLII. Franz Peter Schubert
- Lesson XLIII. Weber. Mendelssohn
- Lesson XLIV. Robert Schumann
- Lesson XLV. Frederic Chopin
- Lesson XLVI. Franz Liszt
- Lesson XLVII. Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. I
- Lesson XLVIII. Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. II
- Lesson XLIX. The Art-Song. Oratorio after Mendelssohn
- Lesson L. The Symphonic Poem in Germany
- Lesson Li. German Opera Since Wagner
- Lesson LII. Old and New Schools in France
- Lesson LIII. Musical Regeneration in Italy
- Lesson LIV. England and the Netherlands
- Lesson Lv. National Schools: Bohemia and Scandinavia
- Lesson LVI. The Russian School
- Lesson LVII. Music in the United States
- Lesson LVIII. American Composers: Works in Large Instrumental Forms
- Lesson LIX. American Composers: Vocal Forms; Piano and Organ.—Musical Literature
- Lesson LX. Musical Education