Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music Book

	Acknowledgments	XI
1.	First Hearing: Developing Your Listening Skills	1
2.	Making Music	11
3.	Some Thoughts on the Recordings Used in Classical Music 101	33
4.	The Voices of the Orchestra	45
5.	Colors and Pictures: More Thoughts About Listening	109
6.	Second Hearing: Beethoven's Seventh Symphony	145
7.	Theory, and Practice	161
8.	The Symphony	181
	A Conversation with James Levine	191
9.	Attending a Live Performance	243
10.	The Piano	281
	A Conversation with Emanuel Ax	310
11.	The Violin	337
	A Conversation with Joshua Bell	344
12.	Stringing Along: Music for Viola, Cello, and Double Bass	367
13.	The Woodwinds	379
14.	The Brass Family	391
15.	The Percussion: Bells, Whistles, Thunder, and a Beating Heart	399
16.	Early Music: From These Roots	409
17.	The Singer's Art: Lieder and Vocal Music	421
	A Conversation with Marilyn Horne	452
18.	Lift Every Voice: Music with Chorus	477
19.	Feeling Music: Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2	507
20.	Mount Olympus and Elysian Fields: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony	519
21.	Coda: Some Final Notes	529
	Discography for Classical Music 101	541
	Resources for the Classical Music Lover	563
	Traveling to Hear Classical Music: Concert Halls and Theaters Around the World	569
	Index	647