A history of musical thought, by Donald N. Ferguson

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Label

A history of musical thought, by Donald N. Ferguson

Statement of responsibility

by Donald N. Ferguson

Instantiates

• A history of musical thought

Publication

• New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-657) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• The evolution of our modern instruments
• The beginnings of instrumental music to 1600
• Retrospects and prospects
• The seventeenth century the monodic revolution
• The beginnings of opera in France, Germany, and England
• The forms of instrumental music at the opening of the eighteenth century
• The forms of vocal music at the opening of the eighteenth century
• Bach and Handel
• Gluck's reform of the opera
• The evolution of the modern sonata
• The problems
• The perfecting of the sonata form Haydn and Mozart
• The sonata and the revolution Beethoven
• The evolution of the modern sonata
• The perfecting of the sonata form Hayn and Mozart
• The sonata and the revolution Beethoven
• The flowering of Romanticism the song and its first great master, Schubert
• The Romantic idealists Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Chopin
• The Romantic realists Berlioz and Liszt
• The opera from Gluck to Wagner
• The Wagnerian music drama
• The first scales and the beginnings of keynote feeling
• Anti-Wagnerian tendencies Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi
• The rise of Nationalism
• The transition to the twentieth century
• The twentieth century on the European continent
• The music of England and the United States
• Melody and rhythm in Greek and early Christian music
• Modal organization and theory
• The beginnings of harmony
• Discant, or measured music
• The fourteenth century
• Sacred and secular song in the sixteenth century

Control code

599409

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

Third edition.

Extent

xii, 675 pages

Lccn

59013951

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations, music

Record ID

.b10972742

System control number

(OCoLC)599409