A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 1
- Author: Alwes, Chester L.
Alwes (emer., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a respected teacher whose students lead choral programs worldwide. His personal, practical experience enriches his discussion... Highly recommended.... — More…
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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