Concise history of western music/
Burkholder,J.Peter
- 3rd.ed.
- New york: W.W. norton & company, 2006.
- 666
Preface to the third edition -- Ancient and Medieval worlds: Music in Ancient Greece and early Christian Rome; Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages; Polyphonic music through the thirteenth century; French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- Age of the Renaissance: England, France, and Burgundy in the fifteenth century, the beginnings of an international style; Music of the low countries; Secular song and the rise of national styles in the sixteenth century; Sacred music in the era of the Reformation -- Seventeenth century: Vocal music of the early Baroque; Instrumental music comes of age; Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century; Instrumental music in the late seventeenth century -- Eighteenth century: Music in the early eighteenth century; Early classical period, opera and instrumental music in the early and mid-eighteenth century; Late eighteenth century, Haydn and Mozart; Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Nineteenth century, the age of Romanticism: Early Romantics; Later Romantics; Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century; Final bloom of Romanticism, European music at the end of the nineteenth century -- Twentieth century and today: European mainstream in the early twentieth century; Music, politics, and the people in the European twentieth century; Music in America; Changing world of music since 1945 -- Glossary.