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How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music

By W. J. (William James) Henderson

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How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music
Table of Contents
How Music Developed Chapter I
- The Beginning of Modern Music
Chapter II
- Harmony, Notation, and Measure
Chapter III
- The Birth of Counterpoint
Chapter IV
- The Golden Age of Church Counterpoint
Chapter V
- Progress of Popular Music
Chapter VI
- The Simplification of Music
Chapter VII
- The Evolution of the Piano
Chapter VIII
- The Evolution of Piano Playing
Chapter IX
- Climax of the Polyphonic Piano Style
Chapter X
- Monophonic Style and the Sonata
Chapter XI
- Evolution of the Orchestra
Chapter XII
- The Classic Orchestral Composers
Chapter XIII
- The Romantic Orchestral Composers
Chapter XIV
- The Development of Chamber Music
Chapter XV
- The Birth of Oratorio
Chapter XVI
- Work of Handel and Bach
Chapter XVII
- Haydn and Mendelssohn
Chapter XVIII
- The Birth of Opera
Chapter XIX
- Italian Opera to Handel's Time
Chapter XX
- Italian Opera to Verdi
Chapter XXI
- Beginnings of French Opera
Chapter XXII
- The Reforms of Gluck
Chapter XXIII
- Meyerbeer and his Influence
Chapter XXIV
- German Opera to Mozart
Chapter XXV
- Weber and Beethoven
Chapter XXVI
- Wagner and the Music Drama
Chapter XXVII
- The Lessons of Musical History
Index