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| Author's note | |
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| Translator's note | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| The geography of music in the middle of the eighteenth century | |
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| The galant style and the new sensibility | |
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| Sonata form as a basic form | |
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| The Italian harpsichordists | |
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| C. P. E. Bach and the German harpsichordists | |
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| Schobert in Paris | |
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| Sammartini, Stamitz and the origins of the modern symphony | |
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| Johann Christian Bach: London and his meeting with Mozart | |
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| Vocal Music | |
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| Opera seria and opera buffa | |
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| The European success of Italian comic opera | |
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| The rediscovery of classical antiquity | |
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| The discovery of the fabulous East | |
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| The 'literary' opera | |
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| Music and language; the melodrama | |
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| Opera seria in the second half of the eighteenth century | |
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| Gluck in Vienna | |
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| Gluck in Paris | |
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| Gluck's influence | |
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| Italian comic opera in the second half of the eighteenth century | |
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| Other national forms of comic opera | |
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| Sacred music | |
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| Haydn and Mozart | |
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| Sturm und Drang and music | |
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| The peak of sonata form | |
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| Franz Joseph Haydn | |
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| A model life | |
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| Half a century of music | |
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| Other paths of the sonata style; Dittersdorf and Boccherini | |
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| Mozart | |
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| A variety of styles | |
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| Mozart's journeys | |
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| An independent profession | |
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| The music up to the departure from Salzburg | |
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| The Viennese decade | |
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| Beethoven | |
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| The transformation in musical life at the end of the eighteenth century | |
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| Music and the French Revolution | |
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| The origins of romanticism | |
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| Musical theatre in Europe up to Rossini. French opera; Cherubini, Spontini and Mayr | |
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| The new instrumental schools | |
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| Beethoven | |
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| Beethoven's character | |
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| Beethoven's language | |
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| The music up to the French invasion of Vienna (1809) | |
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| Beethoven and early romanticism | |
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| The late works | |
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| New paths in the age of the Restoration | |
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| Readings | |
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| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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| The orchestra at Mannheim | |
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| Francesco Algarotti | |
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| In praise of Metastasio | |
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| Christoph Willibald Gluck | |
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| A description of sonata form | |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
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| A hymn for 14 July | |
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | |
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| Ernst Theodor Amadeus (Wilhelm) Hoffmann | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |