Western Music Listening Today Book

Part I: THE NATURE OF MUSIC.
1.Music Listening and You.
2.Rhythm.
3.Melody and Harmony.
4.Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization.
5.Orchestral Instruments.
6.Other Musical Instruments.
Part II: EARLY, MEDIEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC.
7.Early Western Music, 500 B.C.-A.D.
1200.8. Late Medieval Music, 1100-1450.
9.Renaissance Music, 1450-1600.
Part III: BAROQUE MUSIC, 1600-1750.
10.The Baroque Period.
11.Oratorio and Cantata.
12.Opera in the Baroque.
13.Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata.
14.Baroque Instrumental Music: Concerto and Fugue.
Part IV: CLASSICAL MUSIC, 1750-1820.
15.Classicism and Classical Music.
16.Sonata Form.
17.The Concerto.
18.Classical Opera.
19.Chamber Music.
20.Piano Sonatas.
21.The Symphony and Beethoven.
Part V: ROMANTIC MUSIC, 1820-1900.
22.Romance and Romanticism.
23.Early Romantic Music.
24.Romantic Piano Music.
25.Program and Ballet Music.
26.Romantic Opera.
27.Romantic Instrumental Music.
28.Nationalism.
Part VI: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND.
29.Music in the Twentieth Century and the Future.
30.Impressionism and Post-Romanticism.
31.The Mainstream.
32.Primitivism and Expressionism.
33.Neoclassicism and Tone Row Music.
34.Concert Music in the United States.
35.New Sounds and New Techniques.