CONTENTS: PART I - MUSIC VOCABULARY: 1) The Ingredients for the Musical Experience 2) Sound 3) Reading Music 4) Music's Dimensions 5) Musical Instruments 6) The Aesthetics of Music PART II - MUSIC'S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 1) The Legacy of Greece and Rome 2) The Middle Ages 3) The Renaissance 4) The Baroque Period 5) Johann Sebastian Bach 6) Other Baroque Composers 7) The Age of Reason 8) Franz Joseph Haydn 9) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 10) Ludwig van Beethoven 11) The Romantic Era and Its Early Composers 12) The Romantic Pianists: Chopin and Liszt 13) Nineteenth-Century Opera 14) Romantic Music in Austria and German 15) Romantic Music in Europe 16) Nationalism 17) Impressionism 18) Twentieth-Century Music 19) Music in the United States 20) Vistas Old and New
CONTENTS: PART I - MUSIC VOCABULARY: 1) The Ingredients for the Musical Experience 2) Sound 3) Reading Music 4) Music's Dimensions 5) Musical Instruments 6) The Aesthetics of Music PART II - MUSIC'S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 1) The Legacy of Greece and Rome 2) The Middle Ages 3) The Renaissance 4) The Baroque Period 5) Johann Sebastian Bach 6) Other Baroque Composers 7) The Age of Reason 8) Franz Joseph Haydn 9) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 10) Ludwig van Beethoven 11) The Romantic Era and Its Early Composers 12) The Romantic Pianists: Chopin and Liszt 13) Nineteenth-Century Opera 14) Romantic Music in Austria and German 15) Romantic Music in Europe 16) Nationalism 17) Impressionism 18) Twentieth-Century Music 19) Music in the United States 20) Vistas Old and New