Reader's Guide to Music

Acoustics

Adorno, Theodor W. 1903–1969

Aesthetics: Classical

Aesthetics: Romantic

Aesthetics: Modern

Affections, Doctrine of

Africa

Albania

Albéniz, Isaac 1860–1909

Aleatoric Music

Analysis: Atonal

Analysis: General

Analysis: Schenkerian

Analysis: Serial

Analysis: Tonal

Arabic Music

Atonality

Australia

Babbitt, Milton b. 1916

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714–1788

Bach, Johann Christian 1735–1782

Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685–1750

Bali

Ballet: French

Ballet: Russian

Ballet: United States

Band Music

Barber, Samuel 1910–1981

Baroque Music: General Studies

Baroque Music: Specialized Studies

Bartók, Béla 1881–1945

Beach, Mrs. H.H.A. (Amy) 1867–1944

Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770–1827

Bellini, Vincenzo 1801–1835

Berg, Alban 1885–1935

Berio, Luciano b. 1925

Berlin, Irving [Israel Balin] 1888–1989

Berlioz, Hector 1803–1869

Bernstein, Leonard 1918–1990

Bingen, Hildegard von

Bizet, Georges 1838–1875

Blues

Boccherini, Luigi 1743–1805

Borrowing

Boulez, Pierre b. 1925

Brahms, Johannes 1833–1897

Britten, Benjamin 1913–1976

Bruckner, Anton 1824–1896

Bulgaria

Burney, Charles 1726–1814

Busoni, Ferruccio 1866–1924

Buxtehude, Dietrich 1637–1707

Byrd, William 1543–1623

Caccini, Francesca 1587–ca. 1640

Caccini, Giulio 1551–1618

Cage, John 1912–1993

Canada

Cantata: French Baroque

Cantata: German Baroque

Cantata: Italian Baroque

Cantus Firmus

Carissimi, Giacomo 1605–1674

Carter, Elliott b. 1908

Castrato

Cavalieri, Emilio de' 1550–1602

Cavalli, Pier Francesco 1602–1676

Chamber Music: Baroque

Chamber Music: Classical

Chamber Music: 19th Century

Chamber Music: 20th Century

Chance Music

Chanson

Chant: Ambrosian

Chant: Byzantine

Chant: Gregorian

Chant: Other Western

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine ca. 1645–1704

China

Chopin, Fryderyk 1810–1849

Chorale

Chromaticism

Ciconia, Johannes ca. 1370–1412

Classical Music: General Studies

Classical Music: Specialized Studies

Clementi, Muzio 1752–1832

Commedia dell'arte

Concerto: Baroque

Concerto: From 1750

Conductors and Conducting

Continuo

Convents

Copland, Aaron 1900–1990

Copyright

Corelli, Arcangelo 1653–1713

Counterpoint

Couperin, François 1668–1733

Cowell, Henry 1897–1965

Crawford, Ruth Porter 1901–1953

Criticism: 18th and 19th Centuries

Dahlhaus, Carl 1928–1989

Dance: Medieval and Renaissance

Dance: Baroque

Dance: Classical

Dance: 19th Century

Dance: 20th Century

Debussy, Claude 1862–1918

de Falla, Manuel

Delius, Frederick 1862–1934

Dello Joio, Norman b. 1913

Denmark

des Prez, Josquin

Divine Office

Donizetti, Gaetano 1797–1848

Dowland, John 1563–1626

Du Fay, Guillaume ca. 1397–1474

Dunstaple, John ca. 1390–1453

Dvořák, Antonín 1841–1904

Early Music Movement

Eastern Europe

Editing

Education: History

Education: Methodologies

Egypt

Electronic Music

Elgar, Edward 1857–1934

Ellington, Edward Kennedy, “Duke” 1899–1974

Ethnomusicology: History

Ethnomusicology: Theory and Method

Falla, Manuel de 1876–1946

Fauré, Gabriel 1845–1924

Fauxbourdon

Fétis, François-Joseph 1784–1871

Film Music

Finland

Flamenco

Folk Music

Form: General

Form: Sonata Form

Foster, Stephen 1826–1864

France: General Studies

France: Musical Centers

Franck, César 1822–1890

Frescobaldi, Girolamo 1583–1643

Fugue

Fux, Johann Joseph 1660–1741

Gabrieli, Andrea ca. 1510–1586

Gabrieli, Giovanni ca. 1554–1612

Gershwin, George 1898–1937

Gesualdo, Carlo ca. 1560–1613

Gilbert, William Schwenck 1836–1911 and Sullivan, Arthur 1842–1900

Glass, Philip b. 1937

Glazunov, Alexander 1865–1936

Glinka, Mikhail 1804–1857

Gluck, Christoph Willibald 1714–1787

Górecki, Henryk b. 1933

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 1829–1869

Gounod, Charles 1818–1893

Great Britain: General Studies

Great Britain: Musical Centers

Grieg, Edvard 1843–1907

Guillaume de Machaut

Handel, George Frideric 1685–1759

Hanslick, Eduard 1825–1904

Hanson, Howard 1896–1981

Harmony: Theory

Harris, Roy 1898–1979

Harrison, Lou b. 1917

Hasse, Johann Adolf 1699–1783

Haydn, Franz Joseph 1732–1809

Hensel, Fanny 1805–1847

Henze, Hans Werner b. 1926

Hildegard von Bingen 1098–1179

Hindemith, Paul 1895–1963

Hoffmann, E.T.A. 1776–1822

Honegger, Arthur 1892–1955

Hungary

Hymn

Iconography

Improvisation

India

Indeterminacy

Indonesia

Instrumental Music: Renaissance

Instruments: General

Instruments: Brass

Instruments: Electronic

Instruments: Harp

Instruments: Keyboard

Instruments: Lute and Guitar

Instruments: Percussion

Instruments: Strings

Instruments: Wind

Instruments: Builders

Italy: Musical Centers to 1600

Ives, Charles 1874–1954

Janáček, Leoš 1854–1928

Japan

Java

Jazz: Early

Jazz: Dixieland

Jazz: Swing

Jazz: Bebop

Jazz: Cool

Jazz: West Coast

Jazz: Free

Jazz: After 1960

Joplill, Scott 1868–1917

Josquin des Prez ca. 1450–1521

Kern, Jerome 1885–1945

Keyboard Music: General

Keyboard Music: Renaissance

Keyboard Music: Baroque

Keyboard Music: Classical

Keyboard Music: Romantic

Keyboard Music: 20th Century

Kodály, Zoltán 1882–1967

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 1897–1957

Lasso, Orlando di 1532–1594

Latin America

Lauda

Libretto

Lied: To 1800

Lied: 19th Century

Ligeti, György b. 1923

Liszt, Franz 1811–1886

Liturgical Drama

Liturgy: Introduction

Liturgy: Divine Office

Liturgy: Mass

Lully, Jean-Baptiste 1632–1687

Luther, Martin 1483–1546

Lutosławski, Witold 1913–1994

MacDowell, Edward 1860–1908

Machaut, Guillaume de ca. 1300–1377

Madrigal: England

Madrigal: Italy

Mahler, Gustav 1860–1911

Manuscript Studies: Medieval

Manuscript Studies: Renaissance

Manuscript Studies: Baroque

Marais, Marin 1656–1728

Marenzio, Luca ca. 1553–1599

Martinu, Bohuslav 1890–1959

Masque

Mass

Massenet, Jules 1842–1912

Mattheson, Johann 1681–1764

Medieval Music: General Studies

Medieval Music: Specialized Studies

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Mendelssohn, Felix 1809–1847

Messiaen, Olivier 1908–1992

Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1791–1864

Middle East

Midi

Milhaud, Darius 1892–1974

Minimalism

Mode: Medieval

Mode: Renaissance

Mode: Non-Western

Monody

Monteverdi, Claudio 1567–1643

Morley, Thomas ca. 1557–1602

Motet: Medieval

Motet: Renaissance

Mozart, Leopold 1719–1787

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756–1791

Musica ficta

Musical Comedy

Musicology: Feminist

Musicology: Gay and Lesbian

Musicology: New Musicology

Musicology: Traditional

Music Therapy

Mussorgsky, Modest 1839–1881

Nancarrow, Conlon 1912–1997

Native North American Music

Neoclassicism

Nielsen, Carl 1865–1931

Norway

Notation: To 1600

Notation: 20th Century

Notre Dame Polyphony

Obrecht, Jacob ca. 1457–1505

Ockeghem, Johannes ca. 1410–1497

Offenbach, Jacques 1819–1880

Office

Oliveros, Pauline b. 1932

Opera: 17th-Century Italian

Opera: French to 1800

Opera: German to 1800

Opera: 18th-Century Italian

Opera: 19th-Century French

Opera: 19th-Century German

Opera: 19th-Century Italian

Opera: 19th-Century Russian

Opera: 20th Century

Opera: English

Opera: Set Design

Opera: Staging

Oratorio: French to 1750

Oratorio: German to 1750

Oratorio: Italian to 1750

Orchestration

Organum

Ornamentation: Renaissance

Ornamentation: Baroque

Ornamentation: Classical

Ornamentation: Romantic

Paderewski, Jan Ignacy 1866–1941

Paganini, Niccolö 1782–1840

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ca. 1525–1594

Partch, Harry 1901–1974

Passion Music

Penderecki, Krzysztof b. 1933

Performance Practice: General

Performance Practice: Medieval

Performance Practice: Renaissance

Performance Practice: Baroque

Performance Practice: Classical

Performance Practice: Romantic

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 1710–1736

Persia

Petrucci, Ottaviano dei 1466–1539

Philippe de Vitry

Philosophy of Music

Poland

Porter, Cole 1891–1964

Portugal

Poulenc, Francis 1899–1963

Prokofiev, Sergei 1891–1953

Psalmody: American

Psalmody: British

Psychology of Music

Publishing: To 1750

Publishing: From 1750

Puccini, Giacomo 1858–1924

Purcell, Henry 1659–1695

Quantz, Johann Joachim 1697–1773

Rachmaninoff, Sergei 1873–1943

Ragtime

Rameau, Jean-Philippe 1683–1764

Ravel, Maurice 1875–1937

Reger, Max 1873–1916

Reich, Steve b. 1936

Renaissance Music: General Studies

Renaissance Music: Specialized Studies

Rhetoric

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai 1844–1908

Rock and Roll: 1950s United States

Rock and Roll: 1960s United States

Rock and Roll: 1960s England

Rock and Roll: 1970s United States

Rock and Roll: 1970s England

Rock and Roll: 1980s United States

Rock and Roll: 1980s England

Rodgers, Richard 1902–1979

Romantic Music: General Studies

Romantic Music: Specialized Studies

Rore, Cipriano de ca. 1515–1565

Rorem, Ned b. 1923

Rossini, Gioachino 1792–1868

Russia

Saint-Saëns, Camille 1835–1921

Salieri, Antonio 1750–1825

Satie, Erik 1866–1925

Scandinavia

Scarlatti, Alessandro 1660–1725

Scarlatti, Domenico 1685–1757

Schoenberg, Arnold 1874–1951

Schubert, Franz 1797–1828

Schumann, Clara 1819–1896

Schumann, Robert 1810–1856

Schütz, Heinrich 1585–1672

Seeger, Ruth Crawford

Semiotics

Sequence

Serbo-Croatia

Serialism

Set Theory

Shakespeare and Music

Shostakovich, Dmitri 1906–1975

Sibelius, Jean 1865–1957

Skryabin, Alexander 1872–1915

Smetana, Bedřich 1824–1884

Sonata: General

Sonata: Baroque

Sonata: Classical

Sonata: Romantic

Song: England

Sound Recording

Sousa, John Philip 1854–1932

South Africa

Spain: General Studies

Spain: Musical Centers

Spohr, Louis 1784–1859

Still, William Grant 1895–1978

Stradivari, Antonio ca. 1644–1737

Strauss, Richard 1864–1949

Stravinsky, Igor 1882–1971

Sullivan, Arthur

Sweden

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon 1562–1621

Symphony: General

Symphony: 18th-Century French

Symphony: 18th-Century German

Symphony: 18th-Century Italian

Symphony: 19th-Century German

Symphony: 19th-Century Russian

Symphony: 20th Century

Tablatures

Tallis, Thomas ca. 1505–1585

Taverner, John ca. 1495–1545

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich 1840–1893

Theory and Theorists: General

Theory and Theorists: Ancient

Theory and Theorists: Early Medieval

Theory and Theorists: 14th Century

Theory and Theorists: 15th Century

Theory and Theorists: 16th Century

Theory and Theorists: 17th Century

Theory and Theorists: 18th Century

Theory and Theorists: 19th Century

Theory and Theorists: 20th Century

Thomson, Virgil 1896–1989

Toscanini, Arturo 1867–1957

Tower, Joan b. 1938

Trope

Troubadours and Trouvères

Tuning and Temperaments

Turkey

20th-Century Music: General Studies

20th-Century Music: Specialized Studies

Varèse, Edgard 1883–1965

Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872–1958

Verdi, Giuseppe 1813–1901

Victoria, Tomás Luis de 1548–1611

Villa-Lobos, Heitor 1887–1959

Vitry, Philippe de 1291–1361

Vivaldi, Antonio 1678–1741

Wagner, Richard 1813–1883

Walton, William 1902–1983

Weber, Carl Maria von 1786–1826

Webern, Anton 1883–1945

Weelkes, Thomas ca. 1575–1623

Weill, Kurt 1900–1950

Wert, Giaches de 1535–1596

Wieck, Clara

Willaert, Adrian ca. 1490–1562

Wolf, Hugo 1860–1903

Women in Music

Xenakis, Iannis b. 1922

Zimbabwe