C. Hubert H. Parry

The Art of Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Parry surveys the rise of western music from the ancient Greeks to the Victorian age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781108001816
• ISBN-10: 1108001815
• Artikelnr.: 26968729

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preliminaries
2. Scales
3. Folk-music
4. Incipient harmony
5. Pure choral music
6. The rise of secular music
7. Combination of old methods and new principles
8. Climax of early instrumental music
9. Beginnings of modern instrumental music
10. The middle stage of modern opera
11. The middle stage of 'sonata' form
12. Balance of expression and design
13. Modern tendencies
14. Modern phases of opera
Summary and conclusion
Index.