Burney Charles. A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period. Book 1-2

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1789. — 835 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 0722250223; ISBN13: 9780722250228.Burney's History is not a period History it is a General History, and it is an intensely personal one. The age of Burney was an age of frank speaking, and one must not ignore this fact when reading works of that period. Burney often uses words which have, since his day, received a more special meaning, and if this is kept in mind many of his so-called "savage and harsh strictures" will not appear unfair.Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients
The History of Egyrtian Music
The History of Hebrew Music
The History of Greek Music
The History of the Music of the RomansA General History of Music
Of the Introduction of Music into the Church, and of its progress there previous to the Time of Guido
Of the Invention of Counterpoint, and State of Music, from the Time of Guido, to the Formation of the Time-table
Of the Formation of the Timetable, and State of Music from that Discovery till about the middle of the fourteenth century
Of the Origin of Modern Languages, to which written Melody and Harmony were first applied; and general state of Music till the Invention of Printing, about the year 1450
Of the State of Music, from the Invention of Printing till the Middle of the XVIth Century: including its Cultivation in the Masses, Motets and Secular Songs of that Period