(Ebook PDF) The concise Oxford history of music 1st edition by Gerald Abraham ISBN 019284010X 9780192840103 full chapters

Part I: The Rise of West Asian and East Mediterranean Music

• Mesopotamia and Egypt
• The Greek Contribution
• The Hellenistic-Roman World
• Music in the Christian World

Part II: The Ascendancy of Western Europe

• The Beginnings of Polyphony
• Music of the Proto-Renaissance
• Spread of Courtly Song
• Characteristics of Courtly Song
• Developments in Notation
• Franconian Notation and Key Figures
• The ‘New Art’ of the Fourteenth Century
• Ars Nova
• Motets
• Guillaume de Machaut
• Early Italian Polyphony
• Fourteenth-Century English Music
• The European Synthesis
• Cross-Cultural Influences
• English Contributions
• Key Composers and Innovations
• Musical Forms and Developments
• The Impact of the Renaissance
• Dominance of the Netherlanders
• Words in Polyphony
• Key Figures
• German and English Contributions
• Interlude: Music in the Islamic World
• Origins and Early Development
• Classical Practices
• Regional and Historical Context

Part III. The Ascendancy of Italy

• Music During the Reformation
• Music During the Counter-Reformation
• Secular Song and Instrumental Music (c. 1560–c. 1610)
• Secular Song (c. 1610–1660)
• The Early Growth of Opera (c. 1610–1660)
• Instrumental Music (c. 1610–1660)

Part IV: The Ascendancy of Germany (1790-1918)

• Opera (1790-1830)
• Orchestral Music (1790-1830)
• Chamber Music (1790-1830)
• Piano Music (1790-1830)
• Solo Song (1790-1830)
• Choral Music (1790-1830)
• Orchestral Music (1830-1893)
• Opera (1830-1893)
• Choral Music (1830-1893)
• The Dominance of the Piano (1830-1893)
• The Decline and Fall of Romanticism (1893-1918)
• Interlude: The Music of Black Africa and America

Part V: The Fragmentation of Tradition (1919-1945)

Music between the wars (1919-45)

• 1. Musical Prosperity in America
• 2. Contemporary Idioms in Britain
• 3. The Main Stream in Paris
• 4. Satie and Les Six
• 5. Ondes Martenot and Quarter-Tone Music
• 6. The Contemporary Spirit in Italy
• 7. The Twelve-Note Row
• 8. Hindemith and Gebrauchsmusik
• 9. Czech Opera
• 10. East European Masters
• 11. Music in Russia After the Revolution
• 12. The Concept of ‘Socialist Realism’
• 13. Music During the Second World War

Cross-Currents After 1945

• 1. The Eclectic Language
• 2. Messiaen’s Grand Synthesis
• 3. The Darmstadt Ferienkurse
• 4. Total Serialization
• 5. Electronically Produced Sound
• 6. Indeterminacy
• 7. The Avant-Garde in America
• 8. International Disciples of Stockhausen
• 9. Modified Serialism
• 10. The Post-War Symphony
• 11. Twelve-Note Music in the U.S.S.R.
• 12. Post-War Opera
• 13. Stravinsky: The Last Years