The History of Music: Volume 1

A two-volume 1888 English translation of Emil Naumann's Illustrierte Musikgeschichte, with additional chapters on English music by Frederick Gore Ouseley.

Emil Naumann (Author), Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger (Translated by), F. A. Gore Ouseley (Edited by)

9781108061636, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 July 2013

798 pages, 255 b/w illus. 3 colour illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm, 1.15 kg

Scholar and composer Emil Naumann (1827–88) studied with Mendelssohn, and his compositions reflect the style of his teacher. He published several works on musical aesthetics and history, of which Illustrierte Musikgeschichte, written between 1880 and 1885, is his best known. It went through many editions and this English translation, first published in 1888, was prepared by the composer, pianist and writer Ferdinand Praeger (1815–91). To rectify the work's marked neglect of English music, chapters were added by its editor, the eminent Victorian musician Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley (1825–89), Professor of Music at Oxford. Lavishly illustrated and with musical examples throughout, this two-volume history was intended to 'aid in fostering ever-increasing interest in the most emotional and cherished of all the arts'. Volume 1 covers the music of ancient civilisations through to the eighteenth century.

Preface
Part I. The Development of Music in the Classical and Pre-Classical Eras: 1. The Chinese, Japanese, and Hindoos
2. The Egyptians, Ethiopians, and western Asiatics
3. The Israelites
4. The Islamites
5. The Greeks
6. The Romans
Part II. The Development of Music in the Middle Ages: 7. From the time of the oldest Christian hymnology to Franco of Cologne
8. Folk-music
9. The old French school up to the time of Dufay
10. The Netherlanders from the time of Okeghem to Roland de Lattre
11. The apostles of the Netherland school
12. Early English music
Part III. History of the Tonal Art from the Time of the Renaissance to the Century of the Rococo: 13. Luther and the music of the Protestant church
14. The two Gabrielis, Palestrina, and the classical tone-schools of Italy
15. The Tuscan school and the musical drama
16. Lotti and the masters of the Catholic restoration
17. Music in England in the middle ages
18. Alessandro Scarlatti and the Neapolitan school
19. Lully and the old French opera
20. The Germans in the school of the Italians, and the precursors of Bach
21. Of music in England during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary
22. Of English music during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
23. Spread of the musical 'Zopf' over central Europe
24. Music in England (1600–60)
25. Of music in England after the Restoration.

Subject Areas: Music reviews & criticism [AVC]