First published in 2005. By far the most stimulating and complete introduction to the styles and schools of Western music, this work is certain to remain a classic. Beginning with the music of the early Christian church, the Gregorian chant, the book proceeds through minstrels...
This history aims to strike a mean between the abstruse and the elementary, the scientific and the educational. The first topic is the Gregorian Chant followed by surveys of French, Italian, English, and Russian music.