Lang's monumental history of music and musical culture has stood for the past half-century as the definitive work of its kind.
The scope of the book is vast, beginning with the music of ancient Greece and ending with that of the first two decades of the twentieth century. But music is not viewed in isolation. Rather, the author presents music as one of the many arts that, taken in conjunction, form the essence of the artistic spirit of an era.
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Lang's volume has long been hailed as a benchmark in the field since making its debut in 1941. This updated edition includes a new foreword.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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All in all, Music in Western Civilization is about the most fascinating general book on music I have ever read. I only wish there were more of it. 1100 pages is not a proper length for a book like that. (Virgil Thomson )
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This is the most comprehensive and engaging history of music ever written. It is a shame that the likes of Stolba and Wright & Simms are being foisted upon unsuspecting undergraduate apprentices of music history in academies all over the U.S. These "histories" are overpriced and simpleton both in their writing and scope.
Lang is a superb writer, a connoisseur of history, art, literature, politics, culture, AND music. This work is a MUST for any serious student/lover of music and music history.
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THE close affinity of the "beautiful" and the "good" was most keenly felt and understood of all civilized nations by ancient Greece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liturgic music, instrumental lyricism, liturgic drama, madrigal art, clavecin music, postromantic era, great classical school, opera bulla, concerted church music, song lyricism, sonata construction, true romanticist, colossal baroque, polyphonic art, symphonic school, style galant, foreign virtuosi, symphonic idiom, terrace dynamics, musical doctrines, modern music drama, polychoral writing, concerted style, operatic establishment, lyric stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Johann Sebastian Bach, Counter Reformation, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, New York, Ninth Symphony, New England, Christian Bach, German Protestant, German Singspiel, Low Countries, French Renaissance, Roman Empire, Chapel Royal, Don Juan, Matthew Passion, Requiem Mass, Richard Strauss, Church Fathers, Italian Renaissance, British Isles, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Catholic Reform, High Renaissance New!
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liturgic music, instrumental lyricism, liturgic drama, madrigal art, clavecin music, postromantic era, great classical school, opera bulla, concerted church music, song lyricism, sonata construction, true romanticist, colossal baroque, polyphonic art, symphonic school, style galant, foreign virtuosi, symphonic idiom, terrace dynamics, musical doctrines, modern music drama, polychoral writing, concerted style, operatic establishment, lyric stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Johann Sebastian Bach, Counter Reformation, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, New York, Ninth Symphony, New England, Christian Bach, German Protestant, German Singspiel, Low Countries, French Renaissance, Roman Empire, Chapel Royal, Don Juan, Matthew Passion, Requiem Mass, Richard Strauss, Church Fathers, Italian Renaissance, British Isles, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Catholic Reform, High Renaissance New!
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- Music, Society, Education (Music Culture) by Christopher Small on page 7, page 33, and page 95
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