Record details

• ISBN: 0521842948
• ISBN: 9780521842945
• Physical Description: ix, 348 pages ; 23 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

0 Prehistory 1 -- Part I Time whole 5 -- 1 From Babylonians to Franks 8 -- Part II Time measured 1100-1400 19 -- 2 Troubadours and organists 22 -- 3 Ars nova and Narcissus's clock 32 -- Part III Time sensed 1400-1630 43 -- 4 Harmony, the light of time 47 -- 5 Radiance of the High Renaissance 57 -- 6 Reformation and heartache 68 -- 7 To speak in music 81 -- Part IV Time known 1630-1770 95 -- 8 Baroque mornings 98 -- 9 Fugue, concerto and operatic passion 111 -- 10 Rococo and reform 123 -- Part V Time embraced 1770-1815 135 -- 11 Sonata as comedy 138 -- 12 Revolution's momentum 150 -- Part VI Time escaping 1815-1907 163 -- 13 Deaf man and the singer 166 -- 14 Angels and other prodigies 177 -- 15 New Germans and old Vienna 190 -- 16 Romantic evenings 202 -- 17 Nightfall and sunrise 215 -- Part VII Time tangled 1908-1975 227 -- 18 To begin again 231 -- 19 Forwards and backwards, and sideways 244 -- 20 People's needs 258 -- 21 To begin again again 270 -- 22 Whirlwind 286 -- Part VIII Time lost 1975- 299 -- 23 Echoes in the labyrinth 303 -- 24 Interlude 314.

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Music > History and criticism.