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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 4/e

Roger Kamien, Hebrew University

Preface

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] Musical Style

Part II The Middle Ages And Renaissance
[1] Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)
[2] Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)

Part III 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] Antonio Vivaldi
[11] Johann Sebastian Bach
[12] The Baroque Suite
[13] The Chorale And Church Cantata
[14] The Oratorio
[15] George Frideric Handel

Part IV The Classical Period
[1] The Classical Style (1750-1820)
[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 Hadyn
[11] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[12] Ludwig Van Beethoven

Part V 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] Frédéric Chopin
[8] Franz Liszt
[9] Felix Mendelssohn
[10] Program Music
[11] Hector Berlioz
[12] Nationalism In Nineteenth -- Century Music
[13] Antonin Dvorak
[14] Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[15] Johannes Brahms
[16] Giuseppe Verdi
[17] Giacomo Puccini
[18] Richard Wagner

Part VI The Twentieth Century
[1] Musical Styles: 1900-1950
[2] Music And Musicians In Society
[3] Impressionism And Symbolism
[4] Claude Debussy
[5] Neoclassicism
[6] Igor Stravinsky
[7] Expressionism
[8] Arnold Schoenberg
[9] Alban Berg
[10] Anton Webern
[11] Béla Bartok
[12] Charles Ives
[13] George Gershwin
[14] William Grant Still
[15] Aaron Copland
[16] Musical Styles Since 1945
[17] Music Since 1945: Four Representative Pieces
[18] Jazz
[19] The American Musical
[20] Rock

Part VII Nonwestern Music
[1] Music In Nonwestern Cultures
[2] Music In Sub-Saharan Africa
[3] Classical Music Of India

Appendices
[1] Glossary And Example Locator
[2] Recordings

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