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The Art of Music
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918), knighted in 1902 for his services to music, was a distinguished composer, conductor and musicologist. In the first of these roles he is best known for his settings of Blake's 'Jerusalem' and the coronation anthem 'I was glad'. He was an enthusiastic teacher and proselytiser of music, believing strongly in its ability to widen and deepen the experience of Man. In this book published in 1893 (and later revised as The Evolution of the Art of Music, also reissued in this series), Parry examines the universal impulse to create musical sounds, traces the origins of music in 'primitive' societies using the research of contemporary anthropologists, and surveys the rise of western music from the ancient Greeks to the Victorian age.
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The Art of Music
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918), knighted in 1902 for his services to music, was a distinguished composer, conductor and musicologist. In the first of these roles he is best known for his settings of Blake's 'Jerusalem' and the coronation anthem 'I was glad'. He was an enthusiastic teacher and proselytiser of music, believing strongly in its ability to widen and deepen the experience of Man. In this book published in 1893 (and later revised as The Evolution of the Art of Music, also reissued in this series), Parry examines the universal impulse to create musical sounds, traces the origins of music in 'primitive' societies using the research of contemporary anthropologists, and surveys the rise of western music from the ancient Greeks to the Victorian age.
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The Art of Music

The Art of Music

by C. Hubert H. Parry
The Art of Music

The Art of Music

by C. Hubert H. Parry

Overview

C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918), knighted in 1902 for his services to music, was a distinguished composer, conductor and musicologist. In the first of these roles he is best known for his settings of Blake's 'Jerusalem' and the coronation anthem 'I was glad'. He was an enthusiastic teacher and proselytiser of music, believing strongly in its ability to widen and deepen the experience of Man. In this book published in 1893 (and later revised as The Evolution of the Art of Music, also reissued in this series), Parry examines the universal impulse to create musical sounds, traces the origins of music in 'primitive' societies using the research of contemporary anthropologists, and surveys the rise of western music from the ancient Greeks to the Victorian age.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108001816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/20/2009
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Pages: 388
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries; 2. Scales; 3. Folk-music; 4. Incipient harmony; 5. Pure choral music; 6. The rise of secular music; 7. Combination of old methods and new principles; 8. Climax of early instrumental music; 9. Beginnings of modern instrumental music; 10. The middle stage of modern opera; 11. The middle stage of 'sonata' form; 12. Balance of expression and design; 13. Modern tendencies; 14. Modern phases of opera; Summary and conclusion; Index.
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