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Tables of Contents for Music
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
To the Student
vii
Introduction to Technology
viii
Table of URLS
x
Pre-Course Questionnaire
xi
Elements
Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
1
4
Pitch discrimination
2
1
Timbres: Tone colors and combinations
3
1
Timbres: Performing media
3
1
Pre-Course Listening Analysis
4
1
Performing Media
5
8
Voices and instruments
8
3
Seating plans
11
2
Rhythm
13
1
Music Notation
14
2
Melody
16
1
Harmony
17
1
Key
18
1
Musical Texture
19
1
Musical Form
20
1
Listening for form
20
1
Musical Style
21
4
Stylistic periods
21
2
Unit Quiz I
23
2
The Middle Ages and Renaissance
Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450)
25
6
The medieval period
27
2
The church modes
29
1
The Mass
30
1
Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)
31
8
People and events in the Renaissance
33
1
Differences between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
33
1
A comparison of the Medieval and Renaissance styles
34
1
Renaissance instruments
35
1
Period and modern instruments
35
1
Dances of the Renaissance
36
1
Unit Quiz II
37
2
The Baroque Period
Baroque Music (1600-1750)
39
2
A comparison of the Renaissance and early baroque styles
40
1
Music in Baroque Society
41
1
The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
41
2
A Brandenburg Concerto
42
1
The Fugue
43
2
Bach's Organ Fugue in G Minor
44
1
Transcriptions of Bach's Organ Fugue in G Minor
44
1
The Elements of Opera
45
2
Preparing for a visit to the opera
46
1
Opera in the Baroque Era
47
1
Claudio Monteverdi
48
1
Henry Purcell
48
1
The Baroque Sonata
49
1
Antonio Vivaldi
49
1
Johann Sebastian Bach
50
1
The Baroque Suite
51
1
Comparing two baroque suites
51
1
The Chorale and Church Cantata
52
1
The Oratorio
52
1
George Frideric Handel
53
4
Handel oratorios
53
1
Handel operas
53
1
Biographical Sketch-A baroque composer
54
1
Unit Quiz III
55
2
The Classical Period
The Classical Style (1750-1820)
57
2
A comparison of the late baroque and classical styles
58
1
Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
59
1
Sonata Form
60
1
Theme and Variations
61
1
Minuet and Trio
61
1
Rondo
62
1
The Classical Symphony
62
2
A classical symphony
63
1
The Classical Concerto
64
1
Classical Chamber Music
65
1
Joseph Haydn
66
2
Nicknames in Haydn's music
66
1
Biographical Sketch-Joseph Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
67
1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
68
1
Ludwig van Beethoven
69
4
Biographical Sketch
70
1
Unit Quiz IV
71
2
The Romantic Period
Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)
73
2
A comparison of the classical and romantic styles
74
1
Romantic Composers and their Public
75
1
The Art Song
76
1
Franz Schubert
76
1
Robert Schumann
77
1
Lieder
77
1
Clara Wieck Schumann
78
1
Frederic Chopin
79
1
Franz Liszt
80
1
Felix Mendelssohn
81
1
Program Music
82
5
The program symphony
83
1
The concert overture
84
1
The symphonic poem
85
1
Incidental music
86
1
Hector Berlioz
87
3
The changing orchestra
88
2
Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music
90
1
Nationalism in music
90
1
Nationalistic composers
91
1
Antonin Dvorak
91
1
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
92
1
Tchaikovsky's ballets
92
1
Johannes Brahms
93
1
Brahms's music
93
1
Giuseppe Verdi
94
2
My favorite Verdi or Puccini opera
95
1
Giacomo Puccini
96
2
Verismo opera
97
1
Richard Wagner
98
5
The Ring of the Nibelung
99
1
Biographical Sketch-A romantic composer
100
1
Unit Quiz V
101
2
The Twentieth Century
Musical Styles: 1900-1945
103
3
The twentieth-century context
104
1
A comparison of twentieth-century styles
105
1
Music and Musicians in Society
106
1
Impressionism and Symbolism
107
1
Claude Debussy
108
1
Neoclassicism
109
1
The music of Igor Stravinsky
109
1
Igor Stravinsky
110
1
Expressionism
111
1
Arnold Schoenberg
112
1
The music of Arnold Schoenberg
112
1
Alban Berg
113
1
Anton Webern
113
1
Bela Bartok
114
1
Charles Ives
115
1
George Gershwin
116
1
William Grant Still
117
1
Aaron Copland
118
2
Biographical Sketch-An American composer
119
1
Musical Styles since 1945
120
3
An overview of musical developments since 1945
121
2
Music since 1945: Four Representative Pieces
123
3
Biographical Sketch-A twentieth-century composer
124
1
Sic transit gloria mundi
125
1
Is art music alive and well in the twenty-first century? A survey
125
1
Jazz
126
5
Roots of jazz
128
1
Blues lyrics
128
1
Jazz styles
129
2
The American Musical
131
2
Musical theater
132
1
Rock
133
8
The diversity of rock styles-an analysis
134
1
Biographical Sketch-A performer or composer of jazz or rock
135
1
Some popular rock groups today-a comparison
136
1
Unit Quiz VI: The Twentieth Century
137
2
Unit Quiz VI: Jazz and Rock
139
2
Nonwestern Music
Music in Nonwestern Cultures
141
3
Other nonwestern musics
142
1
Nonwestern instruments
143
1
Music in Sub-Saharan Africa
144
1
Classical Music of India
145
2
Unit Quiz VII
146
1
APPENDIX
Going to a Concert
147
2
Concert reports: some pre-concert suggestions
149
2
Concert Report 1
151
2
Concert Report 2
153
2
Concert Report 3
155
2
Post-Course Listening Analysis
157
1
Post-Course Evaluation
158
1
Answer Key for Self-Test Questions
159