Introduction / PART I: MUSIC HISTORY TO 1500 CE / Chapter 1: Music of Small-Scale Societies / Chapter 2: Ancient and Medieval Religious Music / Chapter 3: Ancient and Medieval Secular Music / PART II: MUSIC HISTORY FROM 1500 TO 1890 / Chapter 4: Music from the European Age of Discovery (1500–1600) / Chapter 5: Music from the Age of Global Commerce (1600–1750) / Chapter 6: Music from the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (1750–1815) / Chapter 7: Music from the Early Nineteenth Century (1815–1850) / Chapter 8: Music from the Late Nineteenth Century (1850–1890) / PART III: MUSIC HISTORY IN THE AGE OF RECORDINGS / Chapter 9: Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1890–1918) / Chapter 10: Music from the Interwar Period (1918–1939) / Chapter 11: Music during World War II and its Aftermath (1939–1950) / Chapter 12: Music from an Age of Disenchantment and Protest (1950–1975) / Chapter 13: Music and Community (1975–1994) / Chapter 14: Music Today / Where Will You Go from Here? / Glossary / Sources / Index
Biography
Timothy Rice is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, and founding director of the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Dave Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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—Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor, The College of William and Mary
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