A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 1

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• 1. Western Choral Music-Medieval Foundations
• a. The Liturgical Year and the Monastic Hours
• b. The Mass
• c. Modality
• d. Modality in Polyphonic Music
• e. The Origins of Polyphony
• f. The Ars Nova
• g. Isorhythm
• h. Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377)
• i. Conclusion
• j. End Notes
• 2. Sacred Choral Music of the Renaissance, I (1425-1525)
• a. Early Fifteenth Century Motet
• b. Origins of the Cyclic Mass
• c. Masses of Guillaume DuFay
• d. The Ockeghem Generation
• e. Josquin des Prez: Masses
• f. Josquin's Motets
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 3. Secular Choral Music of the Renaissance (1440-1625)
• a. French Chanson
• b. The Psalter
• c. The German Lied
• d. Italian Secular Music
• 1. Verdelot and Arcadelt
• 2. Cypriano de Rore (1516-1565)
• 3. Marenzio, Wert and Gesualdo
• 4. Gastoldi and the Balletto
• e. Musica Transalpina: The English Madrigal
• f. Madrigal Comedy and Intermedium
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 4. Sacred Choral Music of the Renaissance, II (1525-1600)
• a. Josquin's Contemporaries
• b. The post-Josquin Generation
• c. Parody Mass
• d. Palestrina, Lassus and Victoria
• 1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594)
• 2. Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)
• 3. Tomas Luis da Victoria (ca. 1548-1611)
• f. Other Choral Genres
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 5. Sacred Choral Music in England (1450-1650)
• a. The Choral Music of English Catholicism (1450-1530)
• b. John Taverner (ca. 1495-1545)
• c. Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)
• d. William Byrd (1543-1623)
• e. Other Composers of Latin Church Music
• f. Music for the Anglican Church
• g. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
• h. Tompkins and Weelkes
• i. Conclusion
• j. End Notes
• k. The English Reformation-A Time Line
• 6. Choral Music of the Italian Baroque (1600-1725)
• a. Giovanni Gabrieli and the Polychoral Concerto
• b. Monody
• c. Oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
• d. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Sacred Music
• e. Monteverdi and the Madrigal
• f. Sacred Choral Music after Monteverdi
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 7. Choral Music in Germany from Hassler to Buxtehude
• a. Lassus: The Foundation of German Baroque Music
• b. Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
• c. Schutz's Contemporaries
• d. Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen (1623)
• e. From Schutz to Buxtehude
• f. Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 8. French Baroque Music (1650-1750)
• a. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
• b. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1635-1704)
• c. Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)
• e. Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764)
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 9. Choral Music in England from the Restoration (1660) to Handel
• a. Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674)
• b. John Blow (1649-1708)
• c. Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
• d. Purcell's Sacred Music
• e. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
• f. Handel and the Oratorio
• g. Conclusion
• h. End Notes
• 10. The Choral Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• a. Motets
• b. Cantatas
• c. Oratorios
• d. Masses
• e. Mass in b minor (BWV 232)
• f. Magnificat (BWV 243)
• g. Johannespassion (BWV 245)
• h. Matthauspassion (BWV 244)
• h. Conclusion
• i. End Notes
• 11. Aspects of Classicism and Romanticism in Choral Music
• a. Vocal Music
• b. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
• c. Romanticism
• d. Conclusion
• e. Appendix: Choral Composers in Eighteenth-Century Italy
• f. End Notes
• 12. The Mass (1750-1900)
• a. Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
• b. Franz-Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
• c. Haydn's Late Masses (1796-1802)
• d. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• e. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• f. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• g. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
• h. Franz Liszt (1811-1887)
• i. Other Romantic Mass Composers
• j. Conclusion
• k. End Notes
• 13. Romanticism and the Requiems of Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi and Brahms
• a. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-Requiem in d minor, K. 626
• b. Hector Berlioz-Grande Messe des Morts, op. 5
• c. Giuseppe Verdi-Manzoni Requiem
• d. Summary of the Latin Requiems
• e. Johannes Brahms-Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45
• f. End Notes
• 14. Sacred Choral Music from Mozart to Liszt
• a. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• b. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
• c. Max Reger (1873-1916)
• d. Nineteenth-Century Catholic Music
• e. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
• f. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Quattro Pezzi sacri
• g. Franz Liszt (1811-1887)
• h. Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
• i. Victorian England
• j. End Notes