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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 or in preparation.

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/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
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/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras An Anatomy of American Music Mark McKnight Surveys/Overviews
Renaissance Genres & Forms in the Renaissance Allen Scott Genres & Forms
Renaissance The Reformation and Music Allen Scott Genres & Forms
Renaissance Music Theory in the Renaissance Seth Coluzzi Music Theory
Renaissance Byrd K. Dawn Grapes Major Composers
Renaissance Du Fay TBD Major Composers
Renaissance Dunstaple Karen Cook Major Composers
Renaissance Josquin Stephanie P. Schlagel Major Composers
Renaissance Lasso Allen Scott Major Composers
Renaissance Palestrina Noel O'Regan 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 TBD Significant Works
Renaissance Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass Samantha Bassler Significant Works
Baroque Introduction to the Baroque Era Jonathan Rhodes Lee Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras An Anatomy of American Music Mark McKnight Surveys/Overviews
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 TBD Significant Works
Baroque Caccini: Le nuove musiche TBD 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/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras An Anatomy of American Music Mark McKnight Surveys/Overviews
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/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras An Anatomy of American Music Mark McKnight Surveys/Overviews
Romantic Genres & Forms in the Nineteenth Century Christopher Ruth Genres & Forms
Romantic Sonata Form in the Enlightenment Douglass Seaton Genres & Forms
Romantic Harmony and Key Relationships in Romantic Music Richard Bass Music Theory
Romantic Berlioz Julian Rushton Major Composers
Romantic Brahms Jacquelyn Sholes Major Composers
Romantic Mendelssohn Linda Shaver-Gleason and R. Larry Todd Major Composers
Romantic Schubert TBD Major Composers
Romantic Schumann TBD Major Composers
Romantic Verdi Matthew Franke Major Composers
Romantic Wagner Anthony Barone Major Composers
Romantic Sousa Bryan Proksch Major Composers
Romantic Wetmore Allan Atlas 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/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Women in Western Art Music Kendra Preston Leonard Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras Black Music Traditions Melanie Zeck Surveys/Overviews
Multiple Styles/Eras An Anatomy of American Music Mark McKnight Surveys/Overviews
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