A history of western music /
Donald Jay Grout.
- revised edition.
- xiv ; 818 pages ; illustrations, 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
I. The state of music at the end of the ancient world -- II. Gregorian chant and secular song in the middle ages -- III. The benginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- IV. French and italian music of the fourteenth century -- V. Medieval to renaissance: English music and the burgundian school in the fifteenth century -- VI. The age of renaissance: Ockeghem to josquin -- VII. New currents in the sixteenth century -- VIII. Church music and instrumental music in the late renaissance -- IX. Early baroque music -- X. The mature baroque: Vocal music -- XI. The mature baroque: instrumental music -- XII. The eraly eighteenth century -- XIII. Sources of classical style: The sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the eighteenth century -- XIV. The late eighteenth century -- XV. Ludwig van beethoven (1770-1827) -- XVI. The nineteenth century: Romanticism; Vocal music -- XVII. The nineteenth century: Instrumental music -- XVIII. The nineteenthcentury: Opera and music-drama -- XIX. The end of an Era -- XX. The twentieth century -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Index.