Contents

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION page 22

BOOK ONE: STYLE

I. THE APPROACH TO EARLY Music
1. Preview of an 'Early' Style 25
2. The Element of Passion in Early Music 32
3. The Element of Serenity in Early Music 34
4.
Reconciling the Passion with the Serenity 35

II. THE INTERPLAY OF STYLES

1. The Baroque Problem 36
2. The Factor of Date 37
3. The Factor of Nationality: Main Currents 38
4. The Factor of Nationality Musical Effects
: 42
5. The Factor of Purpose Cutting Across both Time
and Place 45
6. The Galant Style 46
7. The Transition to the Classical Period 47

III. Music AS EXPRESSION

1 . The Theory of Affects 49
2. The Factor of Technique 54
3. Differences of Amateur Standard 55
4. Differences of Professional Standard 56
5. The Factor of Taste 57

BOOK TWO: THE NOTES

PART ONE: ACCIDENTALS
IV. ACCIDENTALS IN EARLY Music
L Mode and Key 61
2. Musica Ficta 'Feigned Music* 62
3. The Hexachord 63
4. Unfamiliar Chromatic Signs 65
5. Unfamiliar Modal Signatures 67
6. Unfamiliar Key Signatures 67
7. Written and Unwritten Accidentals 68