A General History of Music

From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period

Paperback Engels 2010 9781108016391
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Charles Burney (1726–1814), was the foremost music historian of his day. The General History, his most famous work, was published in four volumes between 1776 and 1789 and is still of great value today. Burney wanted to write something which would appeal to and inform the musician and the general reader. Research for the History was undertaken during two European tours, in 1770 and 1772, consulting original sources and meeting the great musicians of the time. The resultant work is engaging and elegantly written, offering the reader a fascinating view not only of Burney's own musical preferences and enthusiasms, but also a reflection of contemporary fashionable taste. All four volumes contain generous musical examples, quotations from original sources and an index. Volume 1, originally published in 1776 (of which this is the revised edition of 1789) is devoted to the music of the ancient civilisations, in particular of Greece.

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ISBN13:9781108016391
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:564

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Dedication; Preface; Dissertation: 1. Of the notation or tablature of ancient music; 2. Of the three genera, Diatonic, Chromatic, and Enharmonic; 3. Of the modes; 4. Of mutations; 5. Of melopoeia; 6. Of rhythm; 7. Of the practice of melopoeia, with examples; 8. Whether the ancients had counterpoint, or music in parts?; 9. Of dramatic music; 10. Of the effects attributed to the music of the ancients; History: Of Egyptian music; Of Hebrew music; Of Greek music; 1. Of music in Greece during the residence of pagan divinities of the first order upon Earth; 2. Of the terrestrial, or demi-gods; 3. Concerning the music of heroes and heroic times; 4. Of the music of Greece from the time of Homer, till that country was subdued by the romans; 5. Of ancient musical sects, and theories of sound; 6. Of the scolia, or songs, of the ancient Greeks; Of the music of the Romans; Reflections upon the construction and use of some particular musical instruments of antiquity; A list and description of the plates; Index.

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