Description and condition:

Brown cloth hardback, 8vo, 160pp, b/w illustrations, a fold-out chart.

Good or better copy with nice bright clean pages throughout. Lacks dustcover.

Contents:

prefatory note; introduction; monody and belief in the Middle Ages; from monody to polyphony: belief and the community; voice and dance in the Sixteenth Century ; 'humanism", chromatism, and the dance; from polyphony to homophony: the baroque, opera, and Henry Purcell; the dark ages; culture an d the oratorio; the English Renaissance; American music and an industrial community; epilogue