PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
LESSON I. Music of the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos .
LESSON II. Music of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews .
LESSON III. Music of the Greeks: Scales .
LESSON IV. Music of the Greeks ?( Concluded ) .
LESSON V. Ecclesiastical System .
LESSON VI. Notation .
LESSON VII. Music Outside the Church .
LESSON VIII. The Causes of Polyphonic Development and the Importance of the Polyphonic Era .
LESSON IX. The Paris School .
LESSON X. The Gallo-Belgic School .
LESSON XI. The English School .
LESSON XII. The School of the Netherlands .
LESSON XIII. The Italian School .
LESSON XIV. Palestrina and His Influence on the Music of the Italian School. The Madrigal .
LESSON XV. Musical Instruments .
LESSON XVI. The Organ, Organ Playing and Organ Music .
LESSON XVII. The Beginning of the Opera .
LESSON XVIII. The Oratorio. Development of the Opera .
LESSON XIX. Alessandro Scarlatti and the Neapolitan School .
LESSON XX. Singing and Singers .
LESSON XXI. Opera in France and England .
LESSON XXII. The Opera in Germany. Handel and Gluck .
LESSON XXIII. Mozart to Rossini .
LESSON XXIV. The Oratorio .
LESSON XXV. The Evolution of the Pianoforte .
LESSON XXVI. The Early Italian Clavier Composers .
LESSON XXVII. The Early English and French Clavier Schools .
LESSON XXVIII. The German Polyphonic Clavier School .
LESSON XXIX. The German Sonata Composers, to Haydn .
LESSON XXX. Franz Joseph Haydn .
LESSON XXXI. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
LESSON XXXII. Ludwig van Beethoven .
LESSON XXXIII. Beethoven and the Sonata .
LESSON XXXIV. The Violin and its Makers .
LESSON XXXV. Violin Playing and Violin Music .
LESSON XXXVI. The Orchestra and Absolute Music .
LESSON XXXVII. The Romantic Opera. Weber, Spohr, Marschner .
LESSON XXXVIII. The French School of the XIXth Century .
LESSON XXXIX. The Italian School of the XIXth Century .
LESSON XL. Richard Wagner's Music Dramas. Other Schools .
LESSON XLI. Piano Playing and Composition: Clementi to Field .
LESSON XLII. Franz Peter Schubert .
LESSON XLIII. Weber. Mendelssohn .
LESSON XLIV. Robert Schumann .
LESSON XLV. Frederic Chopin .
LESSON XLVI. Franz Liszt .
LESSON XLVII. Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. I .
LESSON XLVIII. Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. II .
LESSON XLIX. The Art-Song. Oratorio after Mendelssohn .
LESSON L. The Symphonic Poem in Germany .
LESSON LI. German Opera Since Wagner .
LESSON LII. Old and New Schools in France .
LESSON LIII. Musical Regeneration in Italy .
LESSON LIV. England and the Netherlands .
LESSON LV. National Schools: Bohemia and Scandinavia .
LESSON LVI. The Russian School .
LESSON LVII. Music in the United States .
LESSON LVIII. American Composers: Works in Large Instrumental Forms .
LESSON LIX. American Composers: Vocal Forms; Piano and Organ. Musical Literature .
LESSON LX. Musical Education .
INDEX.
FOR SCHOOLS, CLUBS, AND PRIVATE READING
By W. J. BALTZELL
Contributions by
H. A. CLARKE, Mus. Doc.; ARTHUR ELSON,
CLARENCE G. HAMILTON, A.M., EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL,
A.B., ARTHUR L. JUDSON, FREDERIC S. LAW,
AND PRESTON WARE OREM, Mus. Bac.
With Portraits,
Reproductions of Instruments
and Musical Examples
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
THEODORE PRESSER
1908
Copyright, 1905, by THEO. PRESSER.
British Copyright Secured.
