Ebook: Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set: 5-vol. set

Immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within each cultural era and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability to listen critically to key works. --;Part I: Ancient and Medieval music. 1. Music from antiquity to Gregorian chant : ca.1200 BCE to ca.1200 CE ; 2. Secular and cathedral music in the Middle Ages : ca.1100 to ca.1300 ; 3. The Ars nova : musical developments in the fourteenth century -- Part II: The Renaissance. 4. Music in Europe : toward an international style, 1300-1500 ; 5. Church polyphony in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : ca.1475-1600 ; 6. Religious and secular music of the sixteenth century -- Part III: The Baroque era. 7. Humanism and the emergence of opera : 1590-1640 ; 8. Music in Italy, Germany, France, and England : 1600-1740 ; 9. Italian opera seria and the concerto style : 1650-1750 ; 10. Class of 1685 : Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel -- Part IV: The Classical era. 11. The mid-eighteenth century : from Bach's sons to the comic style ; 12. Concert life lifts off, 1725-1800 : Franz Joseph Haydn ; 13. The composer's voice : Mozart (1756-91) -- Part V: Romanticism. 14. Beethoven (1770-1827) ; 15. Opera in the age of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Weber: 1810-50 ; 16. Schubert's private art : 1797-1828 ; 17. Romantic spectacles : from virtuosos to grand opera : 1800-1850 ; 18. Music and literature : Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, 1830-50 ; 19. "Outsiders" in the Romantic tradition : Chopin, Gottschalk, and Glinka, 1820-60 ; 20. Musical politics in the mid-nineteenth century ; 21. Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi : class of 1813 ; 22. Music in Eastern Europe and Russia : 1825-95 ; 23. The revival of the symphony : 1875-1900 ; 24. Opera of the later nineteenth century : 1850-1900 -- Part VI: The twentieth century to today. 25. Early modernism in Vienna : Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg (1890-1918) ; 26. Modernism in France : 1870-1930 ; 27. Nationalism in music : 1890-1930 ; 28. Neoclassicism and twelve-tone music : 1915-50 ; 29. Music between the wars : 1920-40 ; 30. Music and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, Italy, and Germany : 1920-45 ; 31. Music and politics in America and its allies : 1930-50 ; 32. Music in the aftermath of World War II : 1945-70 ; 33. Change in the sixties and seventies : rock, minimalism, and the mixing of art and popular music ; 34. "Many streams" : millennium's end, 1970-present.