William Chappell

The History of Music (Art and Science)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of ancient Greek and Roman music, based on ancient sources and criticising Chappell's famous Victorian contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9781108003711
• ISBN-10: 1108003710
• Artikelnr.: 26872511

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Glossary
1. The first firm footing for history
2. How modern music is indebted to the Greeks
3. The Egyptian Hermes and his three-stringed 'lyre'
4. The improved or octave system of the Greeks
5. Greek figure of speech
6. Greek singing
7. Greek harmony
8. Three Greek hymns with music
9. Basis of the science
10. The musical instruments of the ancients
11. Instruments of percussion
12. Stringed instruments
13. Organs.