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A-R Online Music Anthology: Textbook

Overview of the Planned Contents (by style period)

The foundational articles for the A-R Online Music Anthology cover the main style periods of Western Art Music, with each period containing articles from each of the five sections: Surveys/Overview; Genres & Forms; Music Theory; Major Composers; and Significant Works. Other articles are planned for release in the future.

Click here for a view of the contents by section. (Surveys, Genres & Forms, Music Theory, Major Composers, Significant Works, etc.)

Style Period Title Author Section
Medieval Medieval Music James Maiello Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Medieval Genres & Forms in the Middle Ages Fiona McAlpine Genres & Forms
Medieval Music Theory in the Middle Ages Fiona McAlpine Music Theory
Medieval Comtesssa de Dia Karen Cook Major Composers
Medieval Guillaume Machaut Alice Clark Major Composers
Medieval Philippe de Vitry [TBD] Major Composers
Medieval Hildegard von Bingen [TBD] Major Composers
Medieval Landini Lucia Marchi Major Composers
Medieval Anonymous: Cantigas de Santa Maria Karen Cook Significant Works
Medieval Perotin (Perotinus): Viderunt Omnes [TBD] Significant Works
Medieval Machaut: Notre Dame Mass [TBD] Significant Works
Medieval Hildegard von Bingen: Genre and Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum Jennifer Bain Significant Works
Renaissance An Introduction to Renaissance Music Stephanie P. Schlagel Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overview
Renaissance Genres & Forms in the Renaissance Allen Scott Genres & Forms
Renaissance Music Theory in the Renaissance Seth Coluzzi Music Theory
Renaissance Dunstaple Karen Cook Major Composers
Renaissance Du Fay [TBD] Major Composers
Renaissance Josquin Stephanie P. Schlagel Major Composers
Renaissance Lasso Allen Scott Major Composers
Renaissance Palestrina Noel O'Regan Major Composers
Renaissance Byrd K. Dawn Grapes Major Composers
Renaissance Marenzio Emiliano Ricciardi Major Composers
Renaissance Josquin des Prez: Ave Maria...virgo serena Jennifer Thomas Significant Works
Renaissance Du Fay: Se la face ay pale [TBD] Significant Works
Renaissance Marenzio: Solo e pensoso Dan Donnelly Significant Works
Renaissance Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass Samantha Bassler Significant Works
Baroque Introduction to the Baroque Era Jonathan Rhodes Lee Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overview
Baroque Genres & Forms in the Baroque Era Kimberly Hieb Genres & Forms
Baroque Analytical Approaches to Baroque Music Christopher Brody Music Theory
Baroque Claudio Monteverdi Emily Hagen Major Composers
Baroque Giulio Caccini Kimberly Hieb Major Composers
Baroque Lully [TBD] Major Composers
Baroque Purcell Alon Schab Major Composers
Baroque Rameau Danielle Herrington Major Composers
Baroque George Frideric Handel David Hurley Major Composers
Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach Matthew Hall Major Composers
Baroque Strozzi [TBD] Major Composers
Baroque Monteverdi: Orfeo Dan Donnelly Significant Works
Baroque Strozzi: [Work TBD] Dan Donnelly Significant Works
Baroque Musical Migration: The European Impact of Corelli’s Op. 6 Alison DeSimone Significant Works
Baroque Bach, Johann Sebastian: St. Matthew Passion [TBD] Significant Works
Baroque Handel: Giulio Cesare Salvatore Calomino Significant Works
Classical Music in the Classical Era Robert Pearson Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overview
Classical Genres & Forms in the Classical Era Matthew Pilcher Genres & Forms
Classical Key Concepts for Theory and Analysis of Music from the Classical Period Markus Neuwirth Music Theory
Classical Haydn Bryan Proksch Major Composers
Classical Mozart Julian Rushton Major Composers
Classical Gluck Salvatore Calomino Major Composers
Classical Beethoven Nancy November Major Composers
Classical C. P. E. Bach's Fantasia in C Minor Kimary Fick Significant Works
Classical Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 no. 2 "The Joke" Bryan Proksch Significant Works
Classical Mozart's Don Giovanni Jeremy Leong Significant Works
Romantic A Topical Survey of Nineteenth-Century Music Joseph E. Jones Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overview
Romantic Genres & Forms in the Nineteenth Century Christopher Ruth Romantic
Romantic Harmony and Key Relationships in Romantic Music Richard Bass Music Theory
Romantic Schubert [TBD] Major Composers
Romantic Schumann [TBD] Major Composers
Romantic Mendelssohn Linda Shaver-Gleason and R. Larry Todd Major Composers
Romantic Berlioz Julian Rushton Major Composers
Romantic Verdi Matthew Franke Major Composers
Romantic Wagner Anthony Barone Major Composers
Romantic Sousa Bryan Proksch Major Composers
Romantic Brahms Jacquelyn Sholes Major Composers
Romantic Beethoven's Symphony no. 3 "Eroica" Matteo Magarotto Significant Works
Romantic Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911 Matthew Pilcher Significant Works
Romantic Liszt: Transcendental Etude, No. 1 Matthew Pilcher Significant Works
Romantic Verdi: La Traviata Cindy L. Kim Significant Works
Romantic Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [TBD] Significant Works
Twentieth Century Music in the Twentieth Century Nathan Shields Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overview
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overview
Twentieth Century Genres & Forms in the Twentieth Century Matthew Heap Genres & Forms
Twentieth Century Introduction to the Analysis of 20th-Century Repertoire Joshua Mailman Music Theory
Twentieth Century Debussy Keith Clifton Major Composers
Twentieth Century Schoenberg [TBD] Major Composers
Twentieth Century Bartok TBD Major Composers
Twentieth Century Stravinsky David Carson Berry Major Composers
Twentieth Century Shostakovich [TBD] Major Composers
Twentieth Century Stravinsky: Octet [TBD] Significant Works
Twentieth Century Schoenberg's Piano Suite, Op. 25 Morgan Rich Significant Works
Twentieth Century Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Allan Atlas Significant Works
Twentieth Century Reich: Come Out [TBD] Significant Works
Twentieth Century Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing Kim Teal Significant Works