Musical Encounters Book

I. FOUNDATIONS FOR EXPERIENCING MUSIC.

 1. An Introduction to the Study of Music.

 2. The Language of Music.

 3. Focus on Listening: Vocal Music from around the World.

 4. Musical Performance and the Music Industry.

II. ART MUSIC: MUSIC AS INTRINSIC VALUE.

 5. Music of the Baroque: The Age of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi.

 6. Repetition and Contrast: The Classical Style.

 7. The Spirit of Romanticism.

 8. The Expansion of the Romantic Ideal.

 9. The Twentieth Century: Winds of Change.

10. Post-Modernism: A New Way of Thinking.

III. MUSIC AS A SOCIAL FORCE.

11. The Sociology of Music in Our Time.

12. Music in Religious Thought and Practice.

13. Music and Romance.

14. Music of War and Peace.

Appendix A: Glossary of Terms.

Appendix B: A Listener's Guide to Musical Criticism.

Appendix C: Music History: An Overview of Composers, Forms, and Styles of Music

Endnotes.