Music An Appreciation

Part I Elements 1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color 2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments 3 Rhythm 4 Music Notation 5 Melody 6 Harmony 7 Key 8 Musical Texture 9 Musical Form 10 Performance 11 Musical Style Part II The Middle Ages 1 Music an the Middle Ages 2 Gregorian Chant 3 Secular Music in the Middle Ages 4 The Development of Polyphony: Organum 5 Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in Italy and France Part III The Renaissance 1 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) 2 Sacred Music in the Renaissance 3 Secular Music in the Renaissance 4 The Venetian School: From Renaissance to Baroque Part IV The Baroque Period 1 Baroque Music (1600-1750) 2 Music in Baroque Society 3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form 4 The Fugue 5 The Elements of Opera 6 Opera in the Baroque Era 7 Claudio Monteverdi 8 Henry Purcell 9 The Baroque Sonata 10 Arcangelo Corelli 11 Antonio Vivaldi 12 Johann Sebastion Bach 13 The Baroque Suite 14 The Chorale and Church Cantata 15 The Oratorio 16 George Frideric Handel Part V The Classical Period 1 The Classical Style 2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period 3 Sonata Form 4 Theme and Variations 5 Minuet and Trio 6 Rondo 7 The Classical Symphony 8 The Classical Concerto 9 Classical Chamber Music 10 Joseph Haydn 11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 12 Ludwig van Beethoven Part VI The Romantic Period 1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900) 2 Romantic Composers and Their Public 3 The Art Song 4 Franz Schubert 5 Robert Schumann 6 Clara Wieck Schumann 7 Frederic Chopin 8 Franz Liszt 9 Felix Mendelssohn 10 Program Music 11 Hector Berlioz 12 Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music 13 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 14 Bedrich Smetana 15 Antonin Dvorak 16 Johannes Brahms 17 Giuseppe Verdi 18 Giacomo Puccini 19 Richard Wagner 20 Gustav Mahler Part VII The Twentieth Century 1 Musical Styles 2 Music and Musicians in Society 3 Impressionism and Symbolism 4 Claude Debussy 5 Maurice Ravel 6 Neoclassicism 7 Igor Stravinsky 8 Expressionism 9 Arnold Schoenberg 10 Alban Berg 11 Anton Webern 12 Bela Bartok 13 Dmitiri Shostakovich 14 Charles Ives 15 George Gershwin 16 William Grant Still 17 Aaron Copeland 18 Musical Styles Since 1945 19 Music Since 1945: Eight Representative Pieces Part VII Jazz 1 Jazz Styles 2 Ragtime 3 Blues 4 New Orleans Style 5 Swing 6 Bebop 7 Jazz Style Since 1950 Part IX The American Musical 1 Musical Theater 2 Leonard BernsteinPart X Rock 1 Rock Styles 2 Rock in American Society 3 Beatles Part XI Nonwestern Music 1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures 2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa 3 Classical Music of India 4 Koto Music of JapanKamien, Roger is the author of 'Music An Appreciation', published 2003 under ISBN 9780072844849 and ISBN 0072844841.