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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I BEFORE THE INVENTION OF COMPOSITION
- CHAPTER II THE INVENTION OF POLYPHONY (1400–53)
- CHAPTER III THE PERIOD OF THE INVENTION OF INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION (1453–1536)
- CHAPTER IV THE REFORMATION: FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES TO THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA (1536–88)
- CHAPTER V THE MADRIGALIAN PERIOD (1588–1630)
- CHAPTER VI THE AGE OF THE DECLAMATORY SONGS, OF THE FANCIES FOR VIOLS, AND OF THE SUPPRESSION OF ECCLESIASTICAL MUSIC (1630–1660)
- CHAPTER VII THE PERIOD OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE, AND OF DRAMATIC MUSIC (1660–1700)
- CHAPTER VIII THE PERIOD OF PATRIOTIC SONGS (1701–1800)
- CHAPTER IX THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I BEFORE THE INVENTION OF COMPOSITION
- CHAPTER II THE INVENTION OF POLYPHONY (1400–53)
- CHAPTER III THE PERIOD OF THE INVENTION OF INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION (1453–1536)
- CHAPTER IV THE REFORMATION: FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES TO THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA (1536–88)
- CHAPTER V THE MADRIGALIAN PERIOD (1588–1630)
- CHAPTER VI THE AGE OF THE DECLAMATORY SONGS, OF THE FANCIES FOR VIOLS, AND OF THE SUPPRESSION OF ECCLESIASTICAL MUSIC (1630–1660)
- CHAPTER VII THE PERIOD OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE, AND OF DRAMATIC MUSIC (1660–1700)
- CHAPTER VIII THE PERIOD OF PATRIOTIC SONGS (1701–1800)
- CHAPTER IX THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
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- History of English Music , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1895