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In a time of ever-increasing specialisation this work focuses on the broader aspects of Western music, seeking to view its history as a whole and to probe its relationship to other aspects of Western cultural thought. Of interest to all those concerned with the history of Western intellectual-cultural thought.

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Preface; Translator's Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Antiquity and the Pre-Carolingian period; 3. The Carolingian period; 4. The high middle ages; 5. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; 6. Palestrina; 7. Monteverdi; 8. The German language and music; 9. Schutz; 10. Instrumental music and J. S. Bach; 11. The Viennese classical masters; 12. Stages of musical reality; 13. The Romantic era; 14. The present; 15. Music as history; Notes.

Music and Language

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 14 April 1983
      ISBN-13 9780521299022
      978-0521299022
      ISBN-10 0521299020
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In a time of ever-increasing specialisation this work focuses on the broader aspects of Western music, seeking to view its history as a whole and to probe its relationship to other aspects of Western cultural thought. Of interest to all those concerned with the history of Western intellectual-cultural thought.

      Table of Contents

      Preface; Translator's Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Antiquity and the Pre-Carolingian period; 3. The Carolingian period; 4. The high middle ages; 5. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; 6. Palestrina; 7. Monteverdi; 8. The German language and music; 9. Schutz; 10. Instrumental music and J. S. Bach; 11. The Viennese classical masters; 12. Stages of musical reality; 13. The Romantic era; 14. The present; 15. Music as history; Notes.

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