A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1789)

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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

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