Schott Music Klassische Musik im Überblick

An Overview of Classical Music provides interesting facts on the topics of music history, form and music theory. It outlines the key milestones in music history, covering periods, styles, composers and works. There are also supplementary video tutorials on the book’s content.

Contents:

• Music History: Antiquity
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Viennese Classical period (and pre-Classical period)
• Romantic
• Turn of the Century
• Between the World Wars
• Music after 1945
• Theory of Form: An Introduction to Musical Form
• Form as a Context of Meaning
• Sequential forms
• Developmental forms
• Major Musical Forms
• Music Theory: Musical Notation
• Rhythm
• Scales
• Intervals
• Fundamentals of harmony
• Harmony in classical music
• Notation
• Appendix: An overview of musical instruments
• The Orchestra
• A page of a score
• Singing using relative solfège
• Index
• List of video tutorials (downloads)