Music Then and Now

Contents

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• 1. Fundamental Musical Concepts and Terms
• PART I Music and Prayer: Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 2. Friday, December 25, 1198, Paris: Christmas Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral
• 3. Thursday, July 23, 1586, Harleyford Manor, England: William Byrd?s Mass for Four Voices and Other Domestic Music
• PART II Music and Speech: Baroque Music
• 4. Saturday, February 24, 1607, Mantua: Claudio Monteverdi?s Orfeo
• 5. Tuesday, April 13, 1742, Dublin: George Frideric Handel?s Messiah
• 6. Friday, September 18, 1739, Leipzig: Johann Sebastian Bach at Zimmermann?s Coffeehouse
• PART III Music and Reason: Classical Music
• 7. Monday, October 29, 1787, Prague: W. A. Mozart?s Don Giovanni
• 8. Thursday, December 22, 1808, Vienna: Ludwig van Beethoven?s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
• 9. November 1826, Vienna: A Schubertiade at Joseph von Spaun?s
• PART IV Music and Feeling: Romantic Music
• 10. Sunday, December 5, 1830, Paris: Hector Berlioz?s Fantastic Symphony (Symphonie fantastique)
• 11. Thursday, March 13, 1845, Leipzig: Felix Mendelssohn?s Violin Concerto in E Minor
• 12. Saturday, March 29, 1862, Paris: Clara Schumann Performs Robert Schumann?s Carnaval
• 13. Monday, August 14, 1876, Bayreuth: Richard Wagner?s The Valkyrie (Die Walkure)
• 14. Friday, December 15, 1893, New York: Antonin Dvo?ak?s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World)
• PART V Music and Politics: Twentieth-Century Music
• 15. Thursday, May 29, 1913, Paris: Igor Stravinsky?s The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps)
• 16. Monday, December 14, 1925, Berlin: Alban Berg?s Wozzeck
• 17. Wednesday, January 15, 1941, Stalag VIIIA, Zgorzelek, Poland: Olivier Messiaen?s Quartet for the End of Time
• 18. Thursday, September 26, 1957, New York: Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story
• 19. Coda: Into the Twenty-First Century
• Appendix More Technical Matters
• Glossary Endnotes Credit
• Index