L. Dean Bye: Student's Guide To The Great Composers

Contents

• The Pre-Renaissance Period
• The Renaissance Period
• Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina
• The Baroque Period
• Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• George Frederick Handel
• The Classical Period
• Some General Characteristics of Classical Music
• Franz Josef Haydn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
• The Romantic Period
• Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music
• Franz Schubert
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Frederic Chopin
• Franz Liszt
• Johannes Brahms
• Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
• Johann Strauss, Jr.
• Anton Dvorak
• The Impressionist Period
• Claude Debussy
• The Contemporary Period
• Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music
• George Gershwin
• Aaron Copland
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Into The Next Century