Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BOOK THE FIRST MUSIC IN THE EARLY AGES
- BOOK THE SECOND MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- BOOK THE THIRD MUSIC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER X On the Schools of the Decadence, and the Invention of the Monodic Style
- CHAPTER XI On the invention and early history of the Opera
- CHAPTER XII On the invention and early history of the Oratorio
- CHAPTER XIII Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER XIV The later Composers of the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER XV The English School of the Restoration
- BOOK THE FOURTH MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- BOOK THE FIFTH MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- BOOK THE SIXTH THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MUSIC, AND ITS PROBABLE INFLUENCE UPON THE FUTURE
- Appendix EPITOME OF THE TECHNICAL HISTORY OF MUSIC, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT
- INDEX AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
CHAPTER XII - On the invention and early history of the Oratorio
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BOOK THE FIRST MUSIC IN THE EARLY AGES
- BOOK THE SECOND MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- BOOK THE THIRD MUSIC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER X On the Schools of the Decadence, and the Invention of the Monodic Style
- CHAPTER XI On the invention and early history of the Opera
- CHAPTER XII On the invention and early history of the Oratorio
- CHAPTER XIII Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER XIV The later Composers of the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER XV The English School of the Restoration
- BOOK THE FOURTH MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- BOOK THE FIFTH MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- BOOK THE SIXTH THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MUSIC, AND ITS PROBABLE INFLUENCE UPON THE FUTURE
- Appendix EPITOME OF THE TECHNICAL HISTORY OF MUSIC, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT
- INDEX AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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- A General History of MusicFrom the Infancy of the Greek Drama to the Present Period, pp. 119 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013