Music to Your Ears: An Introduction to Classical Music

by Mcgee, Joan; McGee, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780757502347
• ISBN10: 0757502342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
What Is Music?	1	(12)
Introduction	1	(1)
Music Really Is the Universal Language	1	(1)
How Music Is Created	2	(1)
Ancient Music	3	(1)
Music History Timeline	4	(1)
The Building Blocks of Musical Sound	4	(1)
PITCH---How high or low a sound is	5	(1)
Musical Notation, or how to tell a musician which note to play on the instrument	5	(1)
Duration---The length of time that a sound lasts	6	(1)
Dynamics---How loud or soft a musical sound is	7	(1)
Timbre---The kind or quality of a musical sound	8	(1)
Summary	9	(1)
Key Terms	10	(1)
Review	11	(2)
Musical Instruments	13	(12)
Modern Instrumental Families	13	(1)
The Woodwind Family	14	(2)
The Brass Family	16	(1)
The String Family	17	(2)
The Percussion Family	19	(1)
Keyboard Instruments and Electronic Instruments	20	(1)
The Symphony Orchestra	21	(1)
Other Ensembles	22	(1)
Summary	22	(1)
Key Terms	22	(1)
Review	23	(2)
Music of the Middle Ages	25	(8)
Music History Timeline	25	(1)
Christianity and Music	25	(1)
Gregorian Chant	26	(1)
The Rise of Polyphonic Music	27	(2)
Secular Music in the Middle Ages	29	(1)
Summary	30	(1)
Key Terms	30	(1)
Review	31	(2)
The Renaissance	33	(12)
General Characteristics of Renaissance Music	33	(2)
The Mass	35	(1)
The Reformation and the Counter Reformation	36	(1)
Secular Vocal Music	37	(3)
Instrumental Music	40	(1)
Key Terms	41	(2)
Review	43	(2)
Music of the Baroque	45	(14)
The Ages of Absolutism and Science	45	(1)
Major and Minor Modes	46	(1)
Dynamics, Tempo, and Structure	47	(1)
From Renaissance to Baroque: Opera	47	(1)
Baroque Vocal Music: Opera, Oratorio, Cantata	48	(2)
Baroque Instrumental Music	50	(1)
The Baroque Orchestra	50	(1)
The Concerto Grosso	51	(1)
The Suite	52	(2)
Baroque Keyboard Forms: Prelude, Toccata, and Fugue	54	(1)
The End of the Baroque: Rococo	55	(1)
Key Terms	56	(1)
Review	57	(2)
The Classical Period	59	(14)
Social Trends	59	(1)
The Piano	60	(1)
The Mannheim School	60	(1)
The Classical Orchestra	60	(1)
Structure and Symmetry in Music	61	(1)
The Classical Sonata	62	(1)
The Symphony and String Quartet	62	(4)
The Concerto	66	(1)
Opera in the Classical Period	67	(3)
Summary	70	(1)
Key Terms	70	(1)
Review	71	(2)
Beethoven and the Transition to Romanticism	73	(10)
Cultural Overview	73	(1)
Beethoven's Life	74	(1)
Beethoven's Music	75	(1)
Beethoven's Symphonies	76	(4)
Summary	80	(1)
Key Terms	80	(1)
Review	81	(2)
The Early Romantic Period	83	(16)
Introduction	83	(1)
Romantic Thinking	84	(1)
Cultural Perspective	85	(1)
Musical Trends	85	(1)
The Enlargement of Forms	85	(1)
Rubato	86	(1)
The Lied	86	(2)
The Character Piece	88	(2)
Clara, Fanny, and the Role of Women in the Romantic Period	90	(5)
Giaocchinno Rossini: Early Romantic Opera Buffa	95	(1)
Summary	95	(1)
Key Terms	95	(2)
Review	97	(2)
The Late Romantic Period	99	(18)
Introduction	99	(1)
Cultural Perspectives	100	(1)
Conservatives vs. Radicals	100	(1)
Opera in the Late Romantic	101	(4)
Symphonic Trends of the Late Romantic Period	105	(5)
Nationalism	110	(3)
From Romantic to post-Romantic	113	(1)
Summary	113	(1)
Key Terms	113	(2)
Review	115	(2)
The Twentieth Century	117	(18)
Introduction	117	(1)
Five Major Stylistic Trends in the Twentieth Century	118	(1)
Impressionism	119	(2)
Expressionism	121	(2)
Neo-Classicism	123	(1)
Neo-Romanticism	124	(5)
Modern	129	(2)
Summary	131	(1)
Key Terms	132	(1)
Review	133	(2)
Beyond Classical Music	135	(10)
Introduction	135	(1)
From Ragtime to Jazz	135	(2)
The Big Band Era	137	(1)
From Bebop to Cool School	137	(2)
The Blending of Styles in Jazz	139	(1)
Rock Music and Other Popular Styles	139	(2)
Summary and Closing Statement	141	(1)
Key Terms	141	(2)
Review	143	(2)
Glossary	145	(18)
Bibliographic References	163	(2)
Index	165