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How Music Developed

by W. J. Henderson

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  1. 1Dedication — The Beginning of Modern Music
  2. 2Chapter II — Harmony, Notation, and Measure
  3. 3Chapter III — The Birth of Counterpoint
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Golden Age of Church Counterpoint
  5. 5Chapter V — Progress of Popular Music
  6. 6Chapter VI — The Simplification of Music
  7. 7Chapter VII — The Evolution of the Piano
  8. 8Chapter VIII — The Evolution of Piano Playing
  9. 9Chapter IX — Climax of the Polyphonic Piano Style
  10. 10Chapter X — Monophonic Style and the Sonata
  11. 11Chapter XI — Evolution of the Orchestra
  12. 12Chapter XII — The Classic Orchestral Composers
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Romantic Orchestral Composers
  14. 14Chapter XIV — The Development of Chamber Music
  15. 15Chapter XV — The Birth of Oratorio
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Work of Handel and Bach
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Haydn and Mendelssohn
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — The Birth of Opera
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Italian Opera to Handel’s Time
  20. 20Chapter XX — Italian Opera to Verdi
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Beginnings of French Opera
  22. 22Chapter XXII — The Reforms of Gluck
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Meyerbeer and His Influence
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — German Opera to Mozart
  25. 25Chapter XXV — Weber and Beethoven
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Wagner and the Music Drama
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — The Lessons of Musical History

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