How music grew, from prehistoric times to the present day
Marion Bauer and Ethel R. (Ethel Rose) Peyser
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1. Front matter2. THE AUTHORS’ GREETINGS3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS4. INTRODUCTION5. ILLUSTRATIONS6. CHAPTER I Music is Born—How, When and Where7. CHAPTER II The Savage Makes His Music8. CHAPTER III The Ancient Nations Made Their Music—Egyptian, Assyrian, and Hebrew9. CHAPTER IV The Greeks Lived Their Music—The Romans Used Greek Patterns10. CHAPTER V The Orientals Make Their Music—Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Burmese, and Javanese11. CHAPTER VI The Arab Spreads Culture—The Gods Give Music to the Hindus12. CHAPTER VII What Church Music Imported from Greece13. CHAPTER VIII Troubadours and Minnesingers Brought Music to Kings and People14. CHAPTER IX The People Dance and Sing15. CHAPTER X National Portraits in Folk Music16. CHAPTER XI Makers of Motets and Madrigals—Rise of Schools 15th and 16th Centuries17. CHAPTER XII Music Gets a Reprimand—Reformation and Rebirth of Learning—How the Reforms Came to Be18. CHAPTER XIII Birth of Oratorio and Opera—Monteverde and Heart Music19. CHAPTER XIV Musicke in Merrie England20. CHAPTER XV Dance Tunes Grow Up—Suites—Violin Makers of Cremona21. CHAPTER XVI Opera in France—Lully and Rameau—Clavecin and Harpsichord Composers22. CHAPTER XVII Germany Enters—Organs, Organists and Organ Works23. CHAPTER XVIII Bach—The Giant24. CHAPTER XIX Handel and Gluck—Pathmakers25. CHAPTER XX “Papa” Haydn and Mozart—the Genius26. CHAPTER XXI Beethoven the Colossus 1770–182727. CHAPTER XXII The Pianoforte Grows Up—The Ancestry of the Pianoforte28. CHAPTER XXIII Opera Makers of France, Germany and Italy—1741 to Wagner29. CHAPTER XXIV The Poet Music Writers—Romantic School30. CHAPTER XXV Wagner—the Wizard31. CHAPTER XXVI More Opera Makers—Verdi and Meyerbeer to Our Day32. CHAPTER XXVII Some Tone Poets33. CHAPTER XXVIII Late 19th Century Composers Write New Music on Old Models34. CHAPTER XXIX Music Appears in National Costumes35. CHAPTER XXX America Enters36. CHAPTER XXXI America Comes of Age37. CHAPTER XXXII Twentieth Century Music38. SOME OF THE BOOKS WE CONSULTED39. Some Music Writers According to Forms of Composition40. INDEX