A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
CHAPTER XXII--MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 261-264
The flowering time of modern music--complexity of developments now taking place--principal actors--two main channels of improvement; fugue--sonata--Bach and Händel as writers of fugue--people's song makes its way into cultivated instrumental music--reference to Mozart's sonatas--thematic and lyric as elements of contrast.