Inhalt
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Western Choral Music-Medieval Foundations
- a The Liturgical Year and the Monastic Hours
- b The Mass
- c Modality
- d Modality in Polyphonic Music
- e The Origins of Polyphony
- f The Ars Nova
- g Isorhythm
- h Guillaume de Machaut (ca 1300-1377)
- i Conclusion
- j End Notes
- 2 Sacred Choral Music of the Renaissance, I (1425-1525)
- a Early Fifteenth Century Motet
- b Origins of the Cyclic Mass
- c Masses of Guillaume DuFay
- d The Ockeghem Generation
- e Josquin des Prez: Masses
- f Josquin's Motets
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 3 Secular Choral Music of the Renaissance (1440-1625)
- a French Chanson
- b The Psalter
- c The German Lied
- d Italian Secular Music
- 1 Verdelot and Arcadelt
- 2 Cypriano de Rore (1516-1565)
- 3 Marenzio, Wert and Gesualdo
- 4 Gastoldi and the Balletto
- e Musica Transalpina: The English "Madrigal "
- f Madrigal Comedy and Intermedium
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 4 Sacred Choral Music of the Renaissance, II (1525-1600)
- a Josquin's Contemporaries
- b The post-Josquin Generation
- c Parody Mass
- d Palestrina, Lassus and Victoria
- 1 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca 1525-1594)
- 2 Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)
- 3 Tomas Luis da Victoria (ca 1548-1611)
- f Other Choral Genres
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 5 Sacred Choral Music in England (1450-1650)
- a The Choral Music of English Catholicism (1450-1530)
- b John Taverner (ca 1495-1545)
- c Thomas Tallis (ca 1505-1585)
- d William Byrd (1543-1623)
- e Other Composers of Latin Church Music
- f Music for the Anglican Church
- g Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- h Tompkins and Weelkes
- i Conclusion
- j End Notes
- k The English Reformation-A Time Line
- 6 Choral Music of the Italian Baroque (1600-1725)
- a Giovanni Gabrieli and the Polychoral Concerto
- b Monody
- c Oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
- d Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Sacred Music
- e Monteverdi and the Madrigal
- f Sacred Choral Music after Monteverdi
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 7 Choral Music in Germany from Hassler to Buxtehude
- a Lassus: The Foundation of German Baroque Music
- b Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
- c Schutz's Contemporaries
- d Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen (1623)
- e From Schutz to Buxtehude
- f Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 8 French Baroque Music (1650-1750)
- a Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
- b Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1635-1704)
- c Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)
- e Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764)
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 9 Choral Music in England from the Restoration (1660) to Handel
- a Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674)
- b John Blow (1649-1708)
- c Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- d Purcell's Sacred Music
- e George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- f Handel and the Oratorio
- g Conclusion
- h End Notes
- 10 The Choral Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- a Motets
- b Cantatas
- c Oratorios
- d Masses
- e Mass in b minor (BWV 232)
- f Magnificat (BWV 243)
- g Johannespassion (BWV 245)
- h Matthauspassion (BWV 244)
- h Conclusion
- i End Notes
- 11 Aspects of Classicism and Romanticism in Choral Music
- a Vocal Music
- b Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
- c Romanticism
- d Conclusion
- e Appendix: Choral Composers in Eighteenth-Century Italy
- f End Notes
- 12 The Mass (1750-1900)
- a Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
- b Franz-Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
- c Haydn's "Late Masses " (1796-1802)
- d Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- e Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- f Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- g Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
- h Franz Liszt (1811-1887)
- i Other Romantic Mass Composers
- j Conclusion
- k End Notes
- 13 Romanticism and the Requiems of Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi and Brahms
- a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-Requiem in d minor, K 626
- b Hector Berlioz-Grande Messe des Morts, op 5
- c Giuseppe Verdi-Manzoni Requiem
- d Summary of the Latin Requiems
- e Johannes Brahms-Ein deutsches Requiem, op 45
- f End Notes
- 14 Sacred Choral Music from Mozart to Liszt
- a Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- b Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- c Max Reger (1873-1916)
- d Nineteenth-Century Catholic Music
- e Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
- f Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Quattro Pezzi sacri
- g Franz Liszt (1811-1887)
- h Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
- i Victorian England
- j End Notes