The art of music. Vol. 01 (of 14)

Résumé of the sixteenth century--Rhythm and form; the development of harmony; figured bass--The organ style; canzona da sonar; ricercar; toccata; sonata da chiesa; great organis...

The deep vital forces which had for two hundred years been urging Italy to magnificent achievement broke through into music during the course of the sixteenth century. Music was...

Popular music; fusion of secular and ecclesiastic spirit; Paganism and Christianity; the epic--Folksong; early types in France, _complainte_, narrative song, dance song; Germany...

Music in nature--Theories of the origin of music-Intervals and scales; Contrast--The aborigines of Carribea, Polynesia, Samoa, Africa--The rhythmic element: music and the dance;...

Musical art is the idealized art of the inner man as distinguished from the arts of painting and sculpture and their like which are the idealized expression of what is outside h...

Significance of Greek music--Greek conception of music; mythical records--Music in social life; folk song; general characteristics of Greek music--Systems and scales--Pythagoras...

The Netherland style; the Ars Nova; Machault and the Paris school; the papal ban on figured music--The Gallo-Belgian school; early English polyphony; John Dunstable; Dufay and B...

Music in the Roman empire--Sources of early Christian music; the hymns of St. Ambrose--Hebrew traditions--Psalmody, responses, antiphons; the liturgy; the Gregorian tradition; t...

The consequences of the seventeenth century: Bach and Handel--Handel’s early life; the opera at Hamburg; the German oratorio--The Italian period, 'Rodrigo,’ 'Agrippina,’ and 'Re...

The third dimension in music--'Antiphony’ and Polyphony; magadizing; organum and diaphony, parallel, oblique--Guido d’Arezzo and his reputed inventions; solmisation; progress of...

The musicians of the century--Henry Purcell and music in England--Italy: Alessandro Scarlatti; Arcangelo Corelli; Domenico Scarlatti--The beginnings of French opera: the _Ballet...

No history of music can pretend to completeness that does not give some account of the various musical systems that have developed before or outside of the influence of European...

We have learned in the previous chapters how music, an incipient art fastened in the bondage of religious mysticism, groped through the blackness of the mediæval night; how, bou...

instruments, a line of virtuosi in both north and south Germany had developed an astonishing technique, and certain fairly definite types of composition had been established. Of...

The researches and discoveries of the past fifty years in the valley of the Nile and among the deeply buried ruins of Babylon and Nineveh have thrown light on much that was hith...

So many and varied are the paths of musical enjoyment and profit opened out in the following pages, so different and sometimes so conflicting are the types of art represented th...

In tracing the genesis of the connection of music with dramatic action we shall rely upon the delightful and exhaustive study of M. Rolland entitled _L’Opéra avant l’opéra_,[125...

Introduction--The life of Bach--Bach’s polyphonic skill and the qualities of his genius--Bach’s contribution to the art of music and the forms he employed--The revision of keybo...

The forerunners of opera--The Florentine reform of 1600; the 'expressive’ style; Peri and Caccini; the first opera; Cavalieri and the origin of the oratorio--Claudio Monteverdi:...

Music in nature--Theories of the origin of music--Intervals and scales; contrast--The aborigines of Carribea, Polynesia, Samoa, Africa--The rhythmic element: music and the dance...

Music in the Roman empire--Sources of early Christian music; the hymns of St. Ambrose--Hebrew traditions--Psalmody, responses, antiphons; the liturgy; the Gregorian tradition; t...

The Netherland style; the _Ars Nova_; Maschault and the Paris school; the papal ban on figured music--The Gallo-Belgian school; early English polyphony; John Dunstable; Dufay an...