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A Complete History of Music

by W. J. Baltzell

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Lesson I — Music of the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos
  4. 4Lesson II — Music of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews
  5. 5Lesson III — Music of the Greeks: Scales
  6. 6Lesson IV — Music of the Greeks (Concluded)
  7. 7Lesson V — Ecclesiastical System
  8. 8Lesson VI — Notation
  9. 9Lesson VII — Music Outside the Church
  10. 10Lesson VIII — The Causes of Polyphonic Development and the Importan…
  11. 11Lesson IX — The Paris School
  12. 12Lesson X — The Gallo-Belgic School
  13. 13Lesson XI — The English School
  14. 14Lesson XII — The School of the Netherlands
  15. 15Lesson XIII — The Italian School
  16. 16Lesson XIV — Palestrina and His Influence on the Music of the Itali…
  17. 17Lesson XV — Musical Instruments
  18. 18Lesson XVI — The Organ, Organ Playing and Organ Music
  19. 19Lesson XVII — The Beginning of the Opera
  20. 20Lesson XVIII — The Oratorio. Development of the Opera
  21. 21Lesson XIX — Alessandro Scarlatti and the Neapolitan School
  22. 22Lesson XX — Singing and Singers
  23. 23Lesson XXI — Opera in France and England
  24. 24Lesson XXII — The Opera in Germany. Handel and Gluck
  25. 25Lesson XXIII — Mozart to Rossini
  26. 26Lesson XXIV — The Oratorio
  27. 27Lesson XXV — The Evolution of the Pianoforte
  28. 28Lesson XXVI — The Early Italian Clavier Composers
  29. 29Lesson XXVII — The Early English and French Clavier Schools
  30. 30Lesson XXVIII — The German Polyphonic Clavier School
  31. 31Lesson XXIX — The German Sonata Composers, to Haydn
  32. 32Lesson XXX — Franz Joseph Haydn
  33. 33Lesson XXXI — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  34. 34Lesson XXXII — Ludwig van Beethoven
  35. 35Lesson XXXIII — Beethoven and the Sonata
  36. 36Lesson XXXIV — The Violin and Its Makers
  37. 37Lesson XXXV — Violin Playing and Violin Music
  38. 38Lesson XXXVI — The Orchestra and Absolute Music
  39. 39Lesson XXXVII — The Romantic Opera. Weber, Spohr, Marschner
  40. 40Lesson XXXVIII — The French School of the XIXth Century
  41. 41Lesson XXXIX — The Italian School of the XIXth Century
  42. 42Lesson XL — Richard Wagner’s Music Dramas — Other Schools
  43. 43Lesson XLI — Piano Playing and Composition: Clementi to Field
  44. 44Lesson XLII — Franz Peter Schubert
  45. 45Lesson XLIII — Weber. Mendelssohn
  46. 46Lesson XLIV — Robert Schumann
  47. 47Lesson XLV — Frederic Chopin
  48. 48Lesson XLVI — Franz Liszt
  49. 49Lesson XLVII — Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. I.
  50. 50Lesson XLVIII — Pianists and Teachers Since Liszt. II
  51. 51Lesson XLIX — The Art-Song. Oratorio After Mendelssohn
  52. 52Lesson L — The Symphonic Poem in Germany
  53. 53Lesson LI — German Opera Since Wagner
  54. 54Lesson LII — Old and New Schools in France
  55. 55Lesson LIII — Musical Regeneration in Italy
  56. 56Lesson LIV — England and the Netherlands
  57. 57Lesson LV — National Schools: Bohemia and Scandinavia
  58. 58Lesson LVI — The Russian School
  59. 59Lesson LVII — Music in the United States
  60. 60Lesson LVIII — American Composers: Works in Large Instrumental Forms
  61. 61Lesson LIX — American Composers: Vocal Forms; Piano and Organ — Mus…
  62. 62Lesson LX — Musical Education

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