A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period

by Charles Burney

Overview

Burney's most famous work, based on research during two European tours, providing valuable insight into musical tastes of the time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108016407
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2010
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	610
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

1. Of the introduction of music into the Church, and of its progress there, previous to the time of Guido; 2. Of the invention of counterpoint, and state of music, from the time of Guido, to the formation of the timetable; 3. Of the formation of the timetable, and state of music, from that discovery, till about the middle of the fourteenth century; 4. Of the origin of modern languages, to which written melody and harmony were first applied; and general state of music, till the invention of printing, about the year 1450; 5. Of the state of music, from the invention of printing, till the middle of the sixteenth century; including its cultivation in the masses, motets, and secular songs, of that period.