A History of Western MusicBuilding on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the center of the story. The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres, and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring, and significant--but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas. With a six-part structure emphasizing the music's reception and continued influence, Burkholder's narrative establishes a social and historical context for each repertoire to reveal its legacy and its significance today. |
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... played in uni- son , with slight differences in pitch creating a plangent sound . But modern reconstructions based on surviving auloi can also be played to produce paral- lel octaves , fifths , or fourths , or a drone or separate line ...
... played the keys while the left worked the bellows . The positive organ had to be placed ( posi- tum ) on a table to be played , and required an assistant to pump the bellows . Most of these instruments came into Europe from Asia ...
... played only as chamber music , a good deal of seventeenth- and early- eighteenth - century music could be performed either way . For instance , on a festive occasion or in a large hall , each line of a trio sonata might be played by ...
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A History of Western Music Donald Jay Grout,James Peter Burkholder,Claude V. Palisca No preview available - 2010 |