Standard History of Music: A First History for Students at All Ages; Forty Illustrated Story Lessons in the Development of Musical Art, Adapted for Beginners, Musical Clubs, Private Teaching, Classwork and General Reading, Including an Appendix Upon Club Organizaton and Management, Together with a Map of Musical Europe

James Francis Cooke

Theodore Presser Company, 1910 - Music - 260 pages

Contents

• How Music Began: 7
• What the Early Church Did for Music: 16
• How the System of Writing Notes was Invented: 22
• Who the Troubadors Were and What They Did: 33
• Who Palestrina Was and What He Did: 38
• What Early England Cave to Music: 43
• The Beginnings of the Oratorio and the Opera: 47
• Alessandro Scarlatti and Other Famous Italian Composers of the Eighteenth Century: 51
• The Wonderful Bach Family and Some Musicians who Lived at the Same Time: 55
• Music in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: 60
• low the Organ the Violin and the Piano Influenced the Art of Music: 64
• Johann Sebastian Bach the Greatest of the Polyphonists: 71
• George Frederick Handel: 75
• Franz Joseph Haydn and the Development of the Sonata and the Symphony: 83
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 89
• Christopher Wilibald Gluck and the Reform of the Opera: 95
• Ludwig van Beethoven: 99
• Franz Schubert: 105
• Carl Maria von Weber and His Operatic Reform: 111
• Felix MendelssohnBartholdy: 115
• Robert Schumann and the Age of Musical Romance: 125
• Some Famous Opera Writers of the Nineteenth Century: 129
• Great Teachers and Writers of Music Used in Piano Study: 137
• Frederic Chopin: 143
• Franz Liszt: 148
• Richard Wagner: 155
• Modern Italian Composers: 161
• Anton Rubinstein: 165
• Great French Composers of the Nineteenth Century: 169
• Masters at the Close of the Nineteenth Century: 177
• The Modern Artsong and Its Composers: 183
• Some Famous Pianists and Iiano Teachers of the Nineteenth Century: 189
• Great Virtuosos of the Present Day: 193
• Y Great Violinists of the Past and Present: 201
• Composers of Valuable Pianoforte Pieces in Smaller Forms: 209
• Composers of Instructive Pianoforte Pieces in Smaller Forms: 215
• Music in America: 219
• Some Masters of Today: 227
• A Summary of Musical History: 232
• How to Organize a Voung Folks Musical Club: 235
• Hints on Conducting a Young Folks Musical Club: 243
• The Growth of Modern Music: 251

Bibliographic information

• Title: Standard History of Music: A First History for Students at All Ages; Forty Illustrated Story Lessons in the Development of Musical Art, Adapted for Beginners, Musical Clubs, Private Teaching, Classwork and General Reading, Including an Appendix Upon Club Organizaton and Management, Together with ...; [Charles H. Mills collection]
• Author: James Francis Cooke
• Publisher: Theodore Presser Company, 1910
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jul 24, 2008
• Length: 260 pages