A History of Music: Ancient forms to polyphony.- v. 2. Renaissance and Baroque

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Alec Robertson, Denis Stevens
Barnes & Noble, 1960

Contents

LIST OF PLATES 79
7
PREFACE TO VOLUME
9
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
13
ANCIENT EGYPT
18
INDIA
23
CHINA
42
JAPAN
60
TIBET
70
GREGORIAN MELODY
159
AT WORK ON THE CHANT
188
SARUM GALLICAN MOZARABIC AND AMBROSIAN RITES
197
BYZANTINE AND RUSSIAN RITES
201
THE BIRTH OF ORGANIZED POLYPHONY
211
ORGANUM
221
CONDUCTUS AND CLAUSULA
226
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOTET
232

SOUTHEAST ASIA
76
ANCIENT GREECE
92
THE JEWS
104
IO THE ARABIC WORLD
118
CHRISTIAN CHANT
139
HISTORY NOTATION MODES AND RHYTHM
149
SECULAR MONODY
250
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND
261
SOURCES OF THE PERIOD
269
ARS NOVA IN ITALY
291
ARS NOVA IN ENGLAND
309
ARS NOVA IN OTHER COUNTRIES
315

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