Listening Guides | p. xvii |
Cultural Perspectives | p. xix |
Preface to the Seventh Edition | p. xxi |
Prelude: Listening to Music Today | p. 1 |
The Materials of Music | p. 5 |
The Elements of Music | |
Melody: Musical Line | p. 7 |
Rhythm: Musical Time | p. 12 |
Harmony: Musical Space | p. 17 |
Musical Texture | p. 21 |
Musical Form | p. 25 |
Tempo and Dynamics | p. 30 |
Musical Instruments and Ensembles | |
Musical Instruments I | p. 33 |
Musical Instruments II | p. 36 |
Musical Ensembles | p. 48 |
Style and Function of Music in Society | p. 57 |
Hearing Musical Styles | p. 59 |
Medieval and Renaissance Music | p. 61 |
The Middle Ages | |
The Culture of the Middle Ages | p. 63 |
Sacred Music and Religious Drama in the Middle Ages | p. 67 |
Secular Music in the Middle Ages | p. 80 |
The Renaissance | |
The Renaissance Spirit | p. 93 |
Renaissance Sacred Music | p. 100 |
Renaissance Secular Music | p. 109 |
From Renaissance to Baroque | p. 122 |
More Materials of Music | p. 127 |
The Organization of Musical Sounds | |
Musical Systems | p. 129 |
Aspects of the Major-Minor System | p. 135 |
The Baroque Era | p. 139 |
The Baroque and the Arts | |
The Baroque Spirit | p. 141 |
Main Currents in Baroque Music | p. 147 |
Vocal Music of the Baroque | |
Baroque Opera | p. 153 |
Bach and the Baroque Cantata | p. 163 |
Handel and the Baroque Oratorio | p. 173 |
Instrumental Music of the Baroque | |
The Baroque Concerto | p. 181 |
The Baroque Suite | p. 191 |
Other Baroque Instrumental Forms | p. 197 |
To the Age of Enlightenment | p. 204 |
More Materials of Form | p. 213 |
Focus on Form | |
The Development of Musical Ideas | p. 215 |
The Sonata Cycle | p. 218 |
Eighteenth-Century Classicism | p. 225 |
The Classical Spirit | |
Classicism in the Arts | p. 227 |
Classicism in Music | p. 231 |
Classical Chamber Music | |
Eighteenth-Century Chamber Music Style | p. 235 |
Mozart and Classical Chamber Music | p. 239 |
The Classical Symphony | |
The Nature of the Symphony | p. 247 |
Haydn and the Classical Symphony | p. 251 |
Beethoven and the Symphony in Transition | p. 258 |
The Eighteenth-Century Concerto and Sonata | |
The Classical Concerto | p. 268 |
The Classical Sonata | p. 276 |
Choral Music and Opera in the Classical Era | |
Sacred Choral Music | p. 282 |
Classical Opera | p. 286 |
From Classicism to Romanticism | p. 298 |
The Nineteenth Century | p. 305 |
The Romantic Movement | |
The Spirit of Romanticism | p. 307 |
Romanticism in Music | p. 309 |
The Nineteenth-Century Art Song | |
The Romantic Song | p. 315 |
Schubert and the Lied | p. 319 |
Brahms as a Lied Composer | p. 324 |
The Nineteenth-Century Piano Piece | |
The Piano in the Nineteenth Century | p. 328 |
Chopin and Nineteenth-Century Piano Music | p. 329 |
Franz Liszt and the Rise of the Performer/Composer | p. 336 |
Clara Schumann: Nineteenth-Century Pianist and Composer | p. 341 |
Romantic Program Music | |
The Nature of Program Music | p. 346 |
Berlioz and the Program Symphony | p. 348 |
The Rise of Musical Nationalism | p. 353 |
Absolute Forms in the Nineteenth Century | |
The Romantic Symphony | p. 361 |
Dvorak as a Symphonist | p. 365 |
The Romantic Concerto | p. 371 |
Robert Schumann and the Romantic Concerto | p. 373 |
Choral and Dramatic Music in the Nineteenth Century | |
The Nature of Romantic Choral Music | p. 378 |
Romantic Opera | p. 382 |
Verdi and Italian Opera | p. 385 |
Wagner and the Music Drama | p. 394 |
Exoticism in Romantic Opera | p. 403 |
Late Romantic Opera | p. 413 |
Tchaikovsky and the Ballet | p. 416 |
The Twentieth Century | p. 423 |
The Post-Romantic Era | p. 425 |
The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Eras | |
Claude Debussy and Impressionism | p. 438 |
Ravel and Post-Impressionism | p. 450 |
The Early Twentieth Century | |
Main Currents in Early Twentieth-Century Music | p. 457 |
New Elements of Musical Style | p. 461 |
Stravinsky and the Revitalization of Rhythm | p. 465 |
Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School | p. 474 |
Berg and Early Twentieth-Century Opera | p. 481 |
Webern and Serial Technique | p. 487 |
The Nationalism of the Twentieth Century | |
The European Scene | p. 491 |
The American Scene: Art Music | p. 505 |
Popular Styles | |
Blues and Early Jazz | p. 522 |
Musical Theater and Jazz | p. 531 |
Rock and the Global Scene | p. 542 |
The New Music | |
New Directions | p. 557 |
New Sounds on Traditional Instruments | p. 566 |
Modern Composers and Non-Western Styles | p. 576 |
Technology and Music | p. 585 |
Other Recent Trends | p. 595 |
Coda | p. 607 |
Appendices | |
Musical Notation | p. 609 |
Glossary | p. 614 |
About the Listening Guides | p. 625 |
Attending Concerts | p. 628 |
Chronological List of Composers, etc. | p. 633 |
Index | p. 645 |
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