Chapter IV: Part II: The Development of the Art Song

IV. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF SONG 70

The origin of song--The practical value of primitive
song--The cultural value of primitive song--Biography
of primitive song--The lyric impulse--Folk-song and
art-song--Characteristics of the art-song; style, the
singer and the song.

V. FOLK-SONGS 100

The nature and value of folk-songs--Folk-songs of the
British Isles--Folk-song in the Latin lands--German and
Scandinavian folk-song--Hungarian folk-song--Folk-songs of
the Slavic countries; folk-song in America.

VI. THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF SONG 130

Song in early Christian times--The age of chivalry--The
troubadours and trouvères--The minnesingers--The
mastersingers; the Lutheran revival--Polyphonic eclipse
of song.

VII. THE CLASSIC SONG AND THE ARIA 151

Italy and the monodic style--Song in the seventeenth
century; Germany; France--Song in England--The aria--German
song in the eighteenth century; French song in the eighteenth
century; forerunners of Schubert.