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The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening
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From the Book - 6th ed., shorter.
Part One: The materials of music
I. The elements of music
Melody: musical line
Rhythm: musical time
Harmony: musical space
Musical texture
Musical form
Tempo and dynamics
II. Musical instruments and ensembles
Musical instruments I
Musical instruments II
Musical ensembles
Transition I: Hearing musical styles.
Part Two: Medieval and Renaissance music
III. The Middle Ages
The culture of the Middle Ages
Medieval music
IV. The Renaissance
The Renaissance spirit
Renaissance music
Transition II: From Renaissance to baroque.
Part Three: More materials of music
V. The organization of musical sound
Tonality, key, and scale
The major-minor system.
Part Four: The baroque era
VI. The baroque and the arts
The baroque spirit
Main current in baroque music
VII. Vocal music of the baroque
Baroque opera
Bach and the baroque cantata
Handel and the baroque oratorio
VIII. Instrumental music of the baroque
The baroque concerto
Other baroque instrumental forms
Transition III: To the age of enlightenment.
Part Five: More materials of form
IX. Focus on form
The development of musical themes
The sonata cycle.
Part Six: Eighteenth-century classicism
X. The classical spirit
Classicism in the arts
Classicism in music
XI. Classical chamber music
Eighteenth-century chamber music style
Mozart and classical chamber music
XII. The classical symphony
The nature of the symphony
Haydn and the classical symphony
Beethoven and the symphony in transition
XIII. Eighteenth-century concerto and sonata
The classical concerto
The classical sonata
XIV. Vocal forms of the classical era
Classical choral music and opera
Transition IV: From classicism to romanticism.
Part Seven: The nineteenth century
XV. The romantic movement
The spirit of romanticism
Romanticism in music
XVI. The nineteenth-century art song
The romantic song
Schubert and the Lied
XVII. The nineteenth-century piano piece
The piano in the romantic era
Chopin and nineteenth-century piano music
Clara Schumann: A nineteenth-century woman musician
XVIII. Romantic program music
The nature of program music
Berlioz and the program symphony
The rise of musical nationalism
XIX. Absolute forms
The romantic symphony
The romantic concerto
Robert Schumann and the romantic concerto
XX. Choral and dramatic music in the nineteenth century
The nature of romantic choral music
Brahms and choral music
Romantic opera
Verdi and Italian opera
Wagner and the music drama
Tchaikovsky and the ballet.
Part Eight: The twentieth century
Transition V: The post-romantic era
XXI. Turn-of-the-century trends
Debussy and impressionism
XXII. The early twentieth century
Main currents in early twentieth-century music
New elements of musical style
Stravinsky and the revitalization of rhythm
Schoenberg and the second Viennese school
XXIII. The nationalism of the twentieth century
Bartok and the European scene
The American scene: art music
The American scene: popular styles
XXIV. The new music
New directions
Non-Western music and the contemporary scene
New sounds
Recent trends.
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