Description

This books contents includes the following subjects-
1. MUSIC AND HUMAN IMAGES
The origins of music in early society
2. VILLAGE, COURT, AND CHURCH
Composer and folk musician in the Middle Ages
3. THE COMPOSER AS ARTIST AND ARTISAN
The anti-feudal struggle within Bach’s works and behind Mozart’s mask of comedy
4. “PURE MUSIC” AND SOCIAL CONFLICT
The democratic spirit in Beethoven’s symphonies
5. ART FOR ART’S SAKE AND THE PHILISTINES
Music on the market place; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt
6. REACTION IN LIFE, “PROGRESS” IN ART
Wagner’s mystic symbolism and Brahms’s pessimism
7. MUSIC AND NATIONAL FREEDOM
Verdi, the Russian “Five,” Tchaikovsky, and the Beethoven tradition
8. HOW MODERN IS MODERN?
The disintegration of meaning; Schönberg and Stravinsky
9. MUSIC AND SOCIALISM.
Bartok, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Soviet music criticism
10. MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES
Folk inusic, “art” music, and the music of the Negro people
11. Glossary of Musical Terms
12. REFERENCE NOTES