A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1789)Harcourt, Brace, 1935 - Music |
Contents
ESSAY ON MUSICAL CRITICISM | 7 |
The Progress of Music in England from | 13 |
Of the State of Music in Italy during | 128 |
Of the Progress of Music | 201 |
CHAPTER IV | 210 |
Of the Progress of Music in Spain | 235 |
Of the Progress of Music in England | 260 |
Of the Music of Italy in the Church | 411 |
ESSAY ON THE EUPHONY OR SWEETNESS | 497 |
Of the Invention of Recitative | 506 |
Rise and Progress of the Sacred | 560 |
Of the Opera Buffa or Comicopera | 592 |
Of Cantatas or narrative Chamber | 601 |
CHAPTER V | 639 |
Origin of the Italian Opera | 651 |
Opera Composers employed | 937 |
Progress of the Violin in Italy from | 433 |
Of the Progress of Music in Germany | 456 |
Of the State of Music in France | 464 |
Progress of Church Music | 475 |
Of the Music of France during | 964 |
CONCLUSION | 1024 |
Memoir of Charles Burney | 1043 |
Some lesserknown Gramophone | 1053 |