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by Kerman, Joseph; Kerman, Vivian

• ISBN13: 9781572590595
• ISBN10: 1572590599
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Worth Pub

Table of Contents

UNIT I Fundamentals	1	(53)
Overture	2	(6)
Music, Sound, and Time	8	(4)
Time and Pitch	12	(13)
Musical Notation	21	(4)
The Structures of Music	25	(22)
Musical Instruments	36	(11)
Musical Form and Musical Style	47	(6)
UNIT II Early Music: An Overview	53	(46)
The Middle Ages	54	(13)
The Renaissance	67	(16)
The Early Baroque Period	83	(16)
UNIT III The Eighteenth Century	99	(104)
Prelude The Late Baroque Period	100	(15)
Baroque Instrumental Music	115	(20)
Baroque Vocal Music	135	(15)
Prelude Music and the Enlightenment	150	(13)
The Symphony	163	(19)
Other Classical Genres	182	(21)
UNIT IV The Nineteenth Century	203	(84)
Beethoven	205	(11)
Prelude Music after Beethoven: Romanticism	216	(14)
The Early Romantics	230	(22)
Romantic Opera	252	(16)
The Late Romantics	268	(19)
UNIT V The Twentieth Century	287	(97)
Prelude Music and Modernism	289	(14)
The Early Twentieth Century	303	(22)
Alternatives to Modernism	325	(13)
The Late Twentieth Century	338	(20)
Music in America: Jazz	358	(26)
Glossary	384	(12)
Index	396