Outlines of Music History

by Clarence Hamilton

33 chapters8h 17mEnglish1924

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The "Outlines of Music History" is intended to meet the demand for a concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented in the light of recent research. It is only within comparatively few years that Science has cast its searching eye upon historical statements hitherto blindly accepted; and in so doing it has found the Art of Music, especially, through its imaginative and emotional character, encrusted all along the way with a prolific growth of fables and myths. Modern music scholars have for some time been working to strip off these irrelevant accumulations and to arrange the known facts in logical sequence; and as a result the links in the chain which extends from the regions of remote antiquity to our own time are now becoming plainly visible. - Summary by Preface

Chapters (33)

1Introduction

183

2Alien Musical Systems Part 1

908

3Alien Musical Systems Part 2

409

4Alien Musical Systems Part 3

1167

5Mediaeval Music Part 1

1461

6Mediaeval Music Part 2

873

7The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 1

1013

8The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 2

660

9The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 3

581

10The Development of Monophony Part 1

1644

11The Development of Monophony Part 2

1004

12The Development of Monophony Part 3

266

13Bach, Handel, and Gluck Part 1

1365

14Bach, Handel, and Gluck Part 2

555

15The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 1

824

16The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 2

730

17The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 3

870

18The Transition to the Romantic Style Part 1

939

19The Transition to the Romantic Style Part 2

1491

20The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 1

689

21The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 2

896

22The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 3

1117

23Opera in the Nineteenth Century Part 1

1123

24Opera in the Nineteenth Century Part 2

1012

25Opera in the Nineteenth Century Part 3

809

26Other Nineteenth Century Composers Part 1

914

27Other Nineteenth Century Composers Part 2

976

28Other Nineteenth Century Composers Part 3

736

29Recent and Contemporary Composers Part 1

1072

30Recent and Contemporary Composers Part 2

922

31Recent and Contemporary Composers Part 3

882

32Recent and Contemporary Composers Part 4

1556

33Conclusion

177

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