A General History of Music Volume 2

Contents

• 1. Of the introduction of music into the Church, and of its progress there, previous to the time of Guido
• 2. Of the invention of counterpoint, and state of music, from the time of Guido, to the formation of the timetable
• 3. Of the formation of the timetable, and state of music, from that discovery, till about the middle of the fourteenth century
• 4. Of the origin of modern languages, to which written melody and harmony were first applied
• and general state of music, till the invention of printing, about the year 1450
• 5. Of the state of music, from the invention of printing, till the middle of the sixteenth century
• including its cultivation in the masses, motets, and secular songs, of that period.