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/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 | 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 | Dan Donnelly | 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 | 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/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 | Romantic |
| 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 |