A History of Musical Style (in English)

Inbunden bok. McGraw-Hill Book Company, USA. 1966. 593 sidor.

Nära nyskick. THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN MUSICAL STYLE from the time of its earliest written records down to the present. From Gregorian Chant (ca. 750 A.D.) to the atonal music of the mid-20th century. Emphasizes the evolution and continuity of basic musical principles such as construction and execution over long periods of history, and shows how music, growing out of its own past, has shaped its own development. A BOOK FOR FOR MUSIC STUDENTS, SCHOLARS AS WELL AS LAYMEN.
A HIGHLY REGARDED TEXT by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley, USA)seeks the reasons for stylistic change within the history of style itself (rather than in the history of men or of ideas) but also explores in detail moments of high stylistic achievement and the composers who exemplified them.

HIS DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS STARTS from Frankish Gregorian Chant, laudes and melismas, and polyphony. Then Parisian motet of the 13th and 14th centuries, through Italian song forms to the Franco-Flemish style of the 15th and 16th centuries, then the emergence of the Classic Style after 1550. Further to new Italian dramatic styles (1600–1650) and on to the harmonic and polyphonic contributions of the 17th- and 18th-century masters. Also the creation of the German symphonic style, epitomized in the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Then an illuminating examination of new styles after 1900, including the serial music of Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, concludes this exhaustive study.

FOR COMPLETE CONTENT OF THE BOOK see enclosed 3 images.
THE BOOK CONTAINS OVER 140 MUSIC EXAMPLES (by "Music-Book Associates)" and a lists of Selected Study Materials for each chapter are given at the back of the book.
PAGES: 593. FINE NEAR MINT CONDITION.
COVER PHOTO by Bill Atkinson.