Music and its Story

Contents

• Preface
• 1. The beginnings of music
• 2. Early stages of music
• 3. Greek and Roman music
• 4. Folk-music
• 5. Music in the early church
• 6. Introduction to harmony
• 7. Music in the fifteenth century
• 8. Music in the sixteenth century
• 9. Music and the reformation
• 10. Secular music
• 11. Tudor music
• 12. Opera and oratorio
• 13. Handel and Bach
• 14. Form and expression
• 15. Beethoven
• 16. Schubert - romanticism
• 17. Berlioz - 'programme music'
• 18. The later classical period
• 19. Wagner
• 20. Music and nationality
• 21. Later developments
• Appendix 1. The modern orchestra
• Appendix 2. Form in instrumental music
• Appendix 3. Gramophone records
• Appendix 4. The listener
• Bibliography
• Index.