Österreich
Schweiz
Niederlande
Belgien
Frankreich
Luxemburg
Italien
Spanien
Portugal
Dänemark
Finnland
Schweden
Polen
Tschechische Republik
Großbritannien
Weltweit
Inhalt
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- PART I - THE BASIC ESSENTIALS
- 1. The Composer
- 2. Sound
- 3. The Musical Scale
- 4. Plainsong and the Modes
- 5. The Development of Scales and Tonality
- 6. Melody
- 7. Counterpoint
- 8. Harmony
- PART II - INSTRUMENTS - NOTATION
- 9. The Instruments of Music
- 10. Notation
- 11. The Revival of Improvisation
- 12. Reading Musical Notation
- PART III - MUSICAL FORM
- 13. Musical Form
- 14. Expectations of Musical Form
- 15. Binary and Ternary
- PART IV - MUSIC FOR A PURPOSE
- 16. Sacred Music
- 17. Music and Words
- 18. Music and Movement
- PART V - MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS
- 19. The Suite
- 20. Rondeau, Rondo
- 21. Theme and Variations
- 22. Earlier Forms of Variations
- 23. The Art of Fugue
- 24. The Mechanisms of Fugue
- 25. Sonata
- 26. The Classical Era
- 27. Sonata Form
- 28. The Symphony Orchestra in the Concert Hall
- 29. The Development of the Symphony
- 30. The Symphonies of Haydn
- 31. The Symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven
- 32. The Continuation of Symphony
- 33. Concerto
- 34. The Form of the Concerto
- 35. The Operas of Mozart and Beethoven
- PART VI - THE 19TH CENTURY
- 36. Early 19th Century Romanticism
- 37. Schumann, Chopin and Liszt
- 38. Hector Berlioz
- 39. Opera in the 19th Century
- 40. Johannes Brahms
- 41. The Music of Nationalism
- PART VII - THE 20TH CENTURY
- 42. The Age of Change
- 43. Claude Debussy
- 44. Maurice Ravel
- 45. Erik Satie
- 46. Serialism
- 47. Spanish Music
- 48. Heitor Villa-Lobos
- 49. Through Folk Songs to the 20th Century
- 50. The Genius of Stravinsky
- 51. Composers and Dictators
- 52. Charles Ives
- 53. Edgard Varèse
- 54. George Gershwin
- 55. Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber
- 56. Developments in Italy
- 57. Olivier Messiaen
- 58. John Cage
- 59. British Composers
- 60. Witold Lutoslawski
- 61. Leonard Bernstein
- 62. The Fulfillment of the 20th Century
- 63. Pierre Boulez
- 64. György Ligeti
- 65. Karlheinz Stockhausen
- 66. Minimalism
- 67. The 21st Century
