Music of the world : a history / Kurt Pahlen ; translated from the German by James A. Galston.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German, Spanish Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1949.Description: viii, 424 p. : illus., ports., facsims, music ; 24 cmUniform titles:
  • História gráfica universal de la música. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 780.9  PAH
LOC classification:
  • ML160 .P1352
Contents:
BOOK ONE - THE ASCENT : 1. Music in Man's Life -- 2. Music in Ancient Times -- 3. The Hellenic World -- 4. A Cultural Epoch Vanishes and A New One Begins -- 5. The Picturesque Time of Minstrelsy -- 6. The Cities and Their 'New Art' -- 7. The Theater in the Middle Ages -- 8. Toward the Modern World -- 9. The Birth of Opera -- First Intermezzo -- BOOK TWO - THE SUMMIT : 10 Bach: or Faith -- 11. Handel: or The Power of Will -- 12. Vienna Becomes the Musical Center -- 13. Haydn: or Seerene Tranquility -- 14. Mozart: or The Divine Spark -- 15. Beethoven: or The Lonely Rebel -- 16. Schubert: or The Unreal Life -- 17. The Waltz of the Epire - The Empire of the Waltz -- 18. Concertos and Virtuosos -- 19. The Opera in Full Bloom / The Iralians, The French, The Germans, The Spanish Zarzuela -- 20. The Triumph of Romanticism / Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt -- 21. The Musical Awakening of the Nations / A Handful of Earth: Frederic Chopin ; The Czech Soul: Bedřich Smetana ; The Infinite Unknown East: Russia ; The High North Sings of its Loneliness: Edward Grieg -- 22. Wagner -- 23. Verdi: or The Singer of His People -- 24. The Last Romantics / Opera's Days of Maturity ; Two of God;s Musicians: César Franck and Anton Bruckner ; Johannes Brahms ; The Flower of Romanticism: The Lied ; The Great Slav Romanticists: Tchaikovsky and Dvořák ; The Re-awakening of Spain -- Second Intermezzo -- BOOK THREE - THE WAY INTO UNCERTAINTY : 25. The New Century -- 26. The Modern Opera / The Modern Operetta -- 27. The Age of Dissonance -- 28. America / Indian Times, Colonial Times , Early Music in the United States, Present Day Music in the United States, Jazz, Contemporary United States Composers, Music in Latin America -- 29. Mechanical Music -- Appendix -- Index.
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780.9 NID World music : 780.9 PAH Music of the world, 780.9 PAH Music of the world : 780.9 PAH Music of the world : 780.9 PAH Music of the world : 780.9 PAR Masterpieces of music before 1750; 780.9 RAY A social history of music :

First published in 1944 under title: Historia gráfica universal de la música.

BOOK ONE - THE ASCENT : 1. Music in Man's Life -- 2. Music in Ancient Times -- 3. The Hellenic World -- 4. A Cultural Epoch Vanishes and A New One Begins -- 5. The Picturesque Time of Minstrelsy -- 6. The Cities and Their 'New Art' -- 7. The Theater in the Middle Ages -- 8. Toward the Modern World -- 9. The Birth of Opera -- First Intermezzo -- BOOK TWO - THE SUMMIT : 10 Bach: or Faith -- 11. Handel: or The Power of Will -- 12. Vienna Becomes the Musical Center -- 13. Haydn: or Seerene Tranquility -- 14. Mozart: or The Divine Spark -- 15. Beethoven: or The Lonely Rebel -- 16. Schubert: or The Unreal Life -- 17. The Waltz of the Epire - The Empire of the Waltz -- 18. Concertos and Virtuosos -- 19. The Opera in Full Bloom / The Iralians, The French, The Germans, The Spanish Zarzuela -- 20. The Triumph of Romanticism / Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt -- 21. The Musical Awakening of the Nations / A Handful of Earth: Frederic Chopin ; The Czech Soul: Bedřich Smetana ; The Infinite Unknown East: Russia ; The High North Sings of its Loneliness: Edward Grieg -- 22. Wagner -- 23. Verdi: or The Singer of His People -- 24. The Last Romantics / Opera's Days of Maturity ; Two of God;s Musicians: César Franck and Anton Bruckner ; Johannes Brahms ; The Flower of Romanticism: The Lied ; The Great Slav Romanticists: Tchaikovsky and Dvořák ; The Re-awakening of Spain -- Second Intermezzo -- BOOK THREE - THE WAY INTO UNCERTAINTY : 25. The New Century -- 26. The Modern Opera / The Modern Operetta -- 27. The Age of Dissonance -- 28. America / Indian Times, Colonial Times , Early Music in the United States, Present Day Music in the United States, Jazz, Contemporary United States Composers, Music in Latin America -- 29. Mechanical Music -- Appendix -- Index.

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