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Introduction: survey and division of the subject ... -- First period (16th century): vocal programme music-- Jannequin, Gombert, Josquin Deprès, Lasso, Palestrina, Marenzio, etc. -- Second period (from the latter part of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century): isolated and tentative cases of instrumental programme music-- Byrd, Mundy, Monteverdi, Froberger, Kuhnau, Purcell, etc. -- Third period (from the 17th to the middle of the 18th century): French lutenists and clavecinists-- Dennis Gaultier, Chambonnières, Couperin le Grand, Rameau, etc. -- Fourth period (18th century): more general striving after expressiveness in instrumental music, and spreading of the cultivation of programme music-- Rameau, Handel, J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Telemann, Vivaldi, and Geminiani, great masters of the first half of the 18th century -- Fourth period (18th century) (continued): music to plays, programmatic matter in all kinds of vocal and instrumental music, and melodrama-- Scheibe, Agricola, etc., Gluck, C. Phe. E. Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, Rousseau, Benda, etc. -- Fourth period (18th century) (continued): early composers of programme symphonies-- Gossec, Méhul, Roessler, Wranitzky, Pichl, Holzbauer, Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Knecht -- Fourth period (18th century) (continued): curiosities, fatuities, and notabilities-- Lesueur, a theorizing composer ; Lacépède, a composing theorist ; Clementi, Dussek, Steibelt, Wolf, Vogler, Tartini, and Boccherini -- Fifth period (from the close of the 18th century): programme music in the larger classical forms and vitalization of the lesser forms-- Beethoven -- Fifth period (continued): the three early Romanticists-- Weber, Schubert, and Spohr -- Fifth period (continued): a miscellany of composers born before the end of the 18th century-- Boieldieu, Auber, Rossini, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, Löwe, and Meyerbeer -- Fifth period (continued): Mendelssohn -- Fifth period (continued): Schumann -- Fifth period (continued): three pianist composers-- Chopin, Henselt, and Heller -- Sixth period (from about the fourth decade of the 19th century): departure from the classical forms and wider scope of subjects-- Berlioz -- Sixth period (continued): Liszt -- Sixth period (continued): Wagner -- In France: Félicien David, Saint-Saëns, César Franck, etc. -- In Belgium, Italy, Great Britain and America: Bazzini, Verdi, Sterndale Bennett, Macfarren, Parry, Stanford, Mackenzie, Cowen, Corder, W. Wallace, Bantock, Elgar, MacDowell, etc. -- In Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, and Russia: Gade, Grieg, Smetana, Dvorák, Glinka, Dargomijsky, Balakirev, Moussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazounov, Tchaikovsky, etc. -- In Germany: Brahms, Bruckner, Rubinstein, Hirschbach, Litolff, Raff, A. Ritter, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Weingartner, Hausegger, etc. -- Epilogue. Read More |
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