Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color - Performing media : voices and instruments - Rhythm - Music notation - Melody - Harmony - Key - Musical texture - Musical form - Performance - Musical style - Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) - Gregorian chant - Secular music in the Middle Ages - The development of polyphony : organum - Fourteenth-century music : the "new art" in Italy and France -Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) - Sacred music in the Renaissance - Secular music in the Renaissance - The Venetian school : from Renaissance to Baroque - Baroque music (1600-1750) - Music in Baroque society - The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello form - The fugue - The elements of opera - Opera in the Baroque era - Claudio Monteverdi - Henry Purcell - The Baroque sonata - Arcangelo Corelli - Antonio Vivaldi - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Baroque suite - The chorale and church cantata - The oratorio - George Frideric Handel - The Classical style (1750-1820) - Composer, patron, and public in the Classical period - Sonata form - Theme and variations - Minuet and trio - Rondo - The classical symphony - The classical concerto - Classical chamber music - Joseph Haydn - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ludwig van Beethoven - Romanticism in music (1820-1900) - Romantic composers and their public - The art song - Franz Schubert - Robert Schumann - Clara Wieck Schumann - Frédéric Chopin - Franz Liszt - Felix Mendelssohn - Program music - Hector Berlioz - Nationalism in nineteenth-century music - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Bedřich Smetana - Antonin Dvořak - Johannes Brahms - Giuseppe Verdi - Giacomo Puccini - Richard Wagner - Gustav Mahler - Musical styles : 1900-1945 - Music and musicians in society - Impressionism and symbolism - Claude Debussy - Maurice Ravel - Neoclassicism - Igor Stravinsky - Expressionism - Arnold Schoenberg - Alban Berg - Anton Webern - Béla Bartók - Dmitri Shostakovich - Charles Ives - George Gershwin - William Grant Still - Aaron Copland - Music since 1945 : nine representative pieces - Jazz styles : 1900-1950 - Ragtime - Blues - New Orleans style - Swing - Bebop - Jazz styles since 1950 - Musical theater - Leonard Bernstein - Music in film - Rock styles - Rock in American society - The Beatles - Music in nonwestern cultures - Music in sub-Saharan Africa - Classical music of India - Glossary and example locator Includes bibliographical references and index
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