A General History of Music, from the Earliest Times to the Present Volume 2

Contents

• 1. State of music in England during the reign of Elizabeth;
• 2. State of music in England, during the reign of Elizabeth (cont.);
• 3. Italian music theorists of the sixteenth century;
• 4. State of the Roman, Venetian, Lombard, Neapolitan, Bologna, and Florentine schools of counterpoint, during the sixteenth century;
• 5. German theorists of the sixteenth century;
• 6. Eminent musicians in England, from the reign of Elizabeth to the Protectorate;
• 7. Progress and specimens of secular music in England, from the reign of Elizabeth to the Protectorate;
• 8. State of music in England, from the Protectorate to the time of Purcell;
• 9. Purcell;
• 10. General state of music, from the time of Purcell, to the middle of the last century;
• 11. Establishment of the opera and oratorio in Italy;
• 12. Progress of the lyric drama at Venice, Naples, Rome and in Germany and France, during the last century;
• 13. General view of the principal Italian and German composers and performers of the last century;
• 14. Handel;
• 15. Haydn and Mozart;
• 16. Establishment of the Italian opera in England, and its progress, previous to the middle of the last century;
• 17. State of the Italian opera in England, subsequent to the middle of the last century;
• 18. Arne and Arnold;
• 19. Boyce and Batishill;
• 20. General state of music, in England, from the beginning of the last century to the present time.