Outlines of Music History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Outlines of Music History, credited to Clarence Hamilton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Outlines of Music History by Clarence Hamilton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The "Outlines of Music History" is intended to meet the demand for a concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented in the light of recent research. It is only within comparatively few years that Science has cast its searching eye upon historical statements hitherto blindly accepted; and in so doing it has found the Art of Music, especially, through its imaginative and emotional character, encrusted all along the way with a prolific growth of fables and myths. Modern music scholars have for some time been working to strip off these irrelevant accumulations and to arrange the known facts in logical sequence; and as a result the links in the chain which extends from the regions of remote antiquity to our own time are now becoming plainly visible. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Outlines of Music History
• Author credits: Clarence Hamilton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 8:17:04

Catalogue topics

• music
• music -- history and criticism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Introduction — 3:03
2. 02 - Alien Musical Systems Part 1 — 15:08
3. 03 - Alien Musical Systems Part 2 — 6:49
4. 04 - Alien Musical Systems Part 3 — 19:27
5. 05 - Mediaeval Music Part 1 — 24:21
6. 06 - Mediaeval Music Part 2 — 14:33
7. 07 - The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 1 — 16:53
8. 08 - The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 2 — 11:00
9. 09 - The Epoch of Vocal Counterpoint Part 3 — 9:41
10. 10 - The Development of Monophony Part 1 — 27:24
11. 11 - The Development of Monophony Part 2 — 16:44
12. 12 - The Development of Monophony Part 3 — 4:26
13. 13 - Bach, Handel, and Gluck Part 1 — 22:45
14. 14 - Bach, Handel, and Gluck Part 2 — 9:15
15. 15 - The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 1 — 13:44
16. 16 - The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 2 — 12:10
17. 17 - The Perfection of the Sonata Form Part 3 — 14:30
18. 18 - The Transition to the Romantic Style Part 1 — 15:39
19. 19 - The Transition to the Romantic Style Part 2 — 24:51
20. 20 - The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 1 — 11:29
21. 21 - The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 2 — 14:56
22. 22 - The Great Nineteenth Century Romanticists Part 3 — 18:37
23. 23 - Opera in the Nineteenth Century Part 1 — 18:43
24. 24 - Opera in the Nineteenth Century Part 2 — 16:52

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