| Part I The Materials of Music |
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| Unit I The Elements of Music |
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Characteristics of Melody |
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Listening Activity: Melody |
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Listening Activity: Rhythm |
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The Organization of Harmony |
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Consonance and Dissonance |
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Listening Activity: Harmony |
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Musical Texture and the Listener |
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Listening Activity: Texture |
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Structure and Design in Music |
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Two-Part and Three-Part Form |
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The Building Blocks of Form |
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Tempo and Dynamics as Elements of Musical Expression |
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Listening Activity: Tempo and Dynamics |
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| Unit II Musical Instruments and Ensembles |
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Properties of Musical Sound |
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The Voice as a Model for Instrumental Sound |
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The World of Musical Instruments |
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Listening Activity: Voices |
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Listening Activity: Instruments |
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Instrumental Chamber Ensembles |
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Concert, Jazz, and Rock Bands |
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The Role of the Conductor |
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Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra |
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Style and Function of Music in Society |
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64 | (3) |
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Musical Styles in History |
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| Part II Medieval and Renaissance Music |
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| Unit III The Middle Ages |
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The Culture of the Middle Ages |
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67 | (4) |
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Sacred Music in the Middle Ages |
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A Gregorian Melody: Haec dies |
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The Rise of Polyphony: The Notre Dame School |
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Gregorian Chant, Organum, and Motet: Haec dies |
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Life in the Medieval Cloister |
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Influences on the Early Christian Church |
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Hildegard of Bingen and Medieval Religious Drama |
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Secular Music in the Middle Ages |
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Opening Doors to the East |
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Moniot d'Arras and the Trouvere Tradition |
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Guillaume de Machaut and the French Ars Nova |
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| Unit IV The Renaissance |
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100 | (7) |
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The Arts in the Renaissance |
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When the Old World Meets the New World |
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Musicians in Renaissance Society |
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Renaissance Musical Style |
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The Early Renaissance Mass |
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Du Fay and the Cantus Firmus Mass |
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The Motet in the Renaissance |
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Josquin Desprez and the Motet |
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Ave Maria ... virgo serena |
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The High Renaissance Mass |
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Palestrina and the Pope Marcellus Mass |
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Renaissance Secular Music |
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Music in Court and City Life |
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A Burgundian Chanson: Il sera pour vous/L'homme arme |
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Monteverdi and the Madrigal |
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John Farmer's Fair Phyllis |
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From Renaissance to Baroque |
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Polychoral Music in Venice |
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Giovanni Gabrieli and the Polychoral Motet |
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| Part III More Materials of Music |
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| Unit V The Organization of Musical Sounds |
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133 | (12) |
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133 | (6) |
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The Miracle of the Octave |
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The Formation of Major and Minor Scales |
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Aspects of the Major-Minor System |
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The Key as a Form-Building Element |
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| Part IV The Baroque Era |
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| Unit VI The Baroque and the Arts |
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145 | (13) |
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145 | (6) |
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Music and the Religious Spirit in the New World |
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Main Currents in Baroque Music |
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Origins of the Monodic Style |
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The Rise of the Virtuoso Musician |
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The Doctrine of the Affections |
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| Unit VII Vocal Music of the Baroque |
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158 | (30) |
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158 | (11) |
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Monteverdi and Early Baroque Opera |
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Henry Purcell: His Life and Music |
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Handel and Late Baroque Opera |
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169 | (11) |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life and Music |
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Cantata No. 80: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God |
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180 | (8) |
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George Frideric Handel: His Life and Music |
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| Unit VIII Instrumental Music of the Baroque |
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188 | (37) |
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188 | (12) |
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The Rise of Instrumental Music |
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Antonio Vivaldi: His Life and Music |
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Bach and the Late Baroque Concerto |
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 |
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Jacquet de la Guerre: Her Life and Music |
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Handel and the Orchestral Suite |
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Sonata, Passacaglia, and Overture |
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Bach and the Chorale Prelude |
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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God |
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The Fugue and Its Devices |
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Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C minor |
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To the Age of Enlightenment |
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The Rococo and the Age of Sensibility |
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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera |
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| Part V More Materials of Form |
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| Unit IX Focus on Form |
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225 | (12) |
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The Development of Musical Ideas |
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225 | (3) |
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Listening Activity: Thematic Development |
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228 | (9) |
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The Sonata Cycle as a Whole |
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Listening Activity: Sonata Cycle |
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| Part VI Eighteenth-Century Classicism |
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| Unit X The Classical Spirit |
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237 | (9) |
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237 | (9) |
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Elements of Classical Style |
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Concert Life in the Americas: Then and Now |
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| Unit XI Classical Chamber Music |
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246 | (12) |
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Eighteenth-Century Chamber Music Style |
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246 | (5) |
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Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten) |
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251 | (7) |
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| Unit XII The Classical Symphony |
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258 | (23) |
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The Nature of the Symphony |
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258 | (5) |
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The Movements of the Symphony |
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Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor |
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263 | (6) |
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Symphony No. 94 in G major (Surprise) |
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Beethoven and the Symphony in Transition |
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269 | (12) |
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor |
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The Composer Heard 'round the World |
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| Unit XIII The Eighteenth-Century Concerto and Sonata |
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281 | (20) |
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281 | (10) |
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The Movements of the Concerto |
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Mozart's Piano Concerto in G major, K. 453 |
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Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major |
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Famous Women Virtuosos of the Eighteenth Century |
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291 | (10) |
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The Movements of the Sonata |
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East Meets West: Turkish Influences on the Viennese Classics |
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Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331 |
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Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathetique) |
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| Unit XIV Choral Music and Opera in the Classical Era |
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301 | (26) |
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301 | (5) |
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Mass, Requiem, and Oratorio |
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306 | (21) |
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Mozart's Coomic Opera The Marriage of Figaro |
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From Classicism to Romanticism |
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319 | (8) |
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Schubert's The Trout: Lied and Piano Quintet |
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| Part VII The Nineteenth Century |
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| Unit XV The Romantic Movement |
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327 | (9) |
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The Spirit of Romanticism |
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327 | (2) |
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329 | (7) |
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| Unit XVI The Nineteenth-Century Art Song |
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336 | (17) |
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336 | (2) |
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338 | (6) |
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Robert Schumann and the Song Cycle |
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344 | (4) |
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Romantic Song |
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348 | (5) |
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| Unit XVII The Nineteenth-Century Piano Piece |
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353 | (19) |
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The Piano and Its Literature |
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353 | (2) |
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The Short Lyric Piano Piece |
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355 | (6) |
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Polonaise in A-flat, Op. 53 |
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Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 |
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Liszt and the Rise of the Performer/Composer |
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361 | (6) |
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Clara Schumann: Pianist and Composer |
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367 | (5) |
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| Unit XVIII Romantic Program Music |
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372 | (17) |
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The Nature of Program Music |
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372 | (2) |
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Varieties of Program Music |
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Berlioz and the Program Symphony |
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374 | (7) |
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381 | (8) |
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A Czech Nationalist: Bedrich Smetana |
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| Unit XIX Absolute Forms in the Nineteenth Century |
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389 | (28) |
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389 | (5) |
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The Nature of the Symphony |
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Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F major |
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394 | (7) |
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Dvorak's Influence on African-American Art Music |
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401 | (2) |
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The Nature of the Concerto |
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Virtuosity and the Concerto |
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Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto |
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403 | (5) |
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Violin Concerto in E minor |
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Amy Beach and Classical Composition in America |
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408 | (9) |
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Women and Music: A Feminist Issue |
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| Unit XX Choral and Dramatic Music in the Nineteenth Century |
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417 | (62) |
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417 | (2) |
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419 | (5) |
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424 | (3) |
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The Development of National Styles |
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427 | (10) |
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Wagner and the Music Drama |
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437 | (9) |
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446 | (10) |
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Georges Bizet: His Life and Music |
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456 | (4) |
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Ruggero Leoncavallo: His Life and Music |
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Tchaikovsky and the Ballet |
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Ballet---Past and Present |
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: His Life and Music |
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| Part VIII The Twentieth Century |
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467 | (12) |
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Gustav Mahler: His Life and Music |
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Richard Strauss: His Life and Music |
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| Unit XXI The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Eras |
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479 | (20) |
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Debussy and Impressionism |
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479 | (13) |
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The Impressionist Painters |
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Claude Debussy: His Life and Music |
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Prelude to ``The Afternoon of a Faun'' |
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The Paris World Exhibition of 1889: A Cultural Awakening |
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Ravel and Post-Impressionism |
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492 | (7) |
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| Unit XXII The Early Twentieth Century |
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499 | (36) |
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Main Currents in Early-Twentieth-Century Music |
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499 | (4) |
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The Reaction Against Romanticism |
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New Elements of Musical Style |
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The New Rhythmic Complexity |
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Texture: Dissonant Counterpoint |
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Stravinsky and the Revitalization of Rhythm |
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508 | (9) |
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Petrushka and Russian Folk Traditions |
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Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School |
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517 | (6) |
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Berg and Early-Twentieth-Century Opera |
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523 | (7) |
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Webern and Serial Technique |
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530 | (5) |
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| Unit XXIII Twentieth-Century Nationalism |
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535 | (33) |
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535 | (16) |
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Sergei Prokofiev: His Life and Music |
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Bela Bartok: His Life and Music |
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Bartok---a Roving Collector of Folk Songs |
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551 | (17) |
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Popular Music in Late-Nineteenth-Century America |
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Charles Ives: His Life and Music |
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The Things Our Fathers Loved |
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Music and the Patriotic Spirit |
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Aaron Copland: His Life and Music |
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Copland Looks to the Wild West and South of the Border |
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| Unit XXIV Popular Styles |
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568 | (49) |
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568 | (14) |
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Blues and New Orleans Jazz |
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Louis Armstrong and the Blues |
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Lillian Hardin's Hotter Than That |
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Duke Ellington and the Big Band Era |
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Later Jazz Styles and Performers |
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Two Great Jazz Singers: Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday |
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The Development of American Musical Theater |
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Rodgers and Hart and the American Musical Stage |
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Leonard Bernstein and the Broadway Musical |
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Latin-American Dance Music |
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Rock and the Global Scene |
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The Eclecticism of the 1970s |
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The Chieftains and Irish Traditional Music |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
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Kangivumanga (I Disagreed), by Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
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| Unit XXV The New Music |
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617 | (71) |
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617 | (15) |
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The Arts since Mid-Century |
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Toward Greater Organization in Music |
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Toward Greater Freedom in Music |
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The Internationalism of the New Music |
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Other Voices of the New Music |
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Canada's Vision for a Global Culture |
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The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age |
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Virtuoso Women Singers of the Twentieth Century |
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Messiaen and the Postwar Era |
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Quartet for the End of Time |
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Pierre Boulez and the French Avant-Garde |
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The Hammer Without a Master |
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Witold Lutoslawski and Aleatoric Music |
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Contemporary Composers and Non-Western Styles |
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644 | (22) |
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Multicultural Influences in Contemporary Society |
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George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children |
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Gyorgy Ligeti's Etudes for Piano |
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Music from Eastern Africa |
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Ensiriba ya munage Katego |
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East Meets West: The Composer's Perspective |
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An Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music |
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Abing's The Moon Reflected on the Second Springs |
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666 | (8) |
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The Technological Revolution |
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Music and the World of Technology |
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Important Figures in Electronic Music |
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Paul Lansky's Notjustmoreidlechatter |
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674 | (14) |
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Libby Larsen and Quotation Music |
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Minimalism and Post-Minimalism |
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| Coda |
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| Appendices |
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| Credits |
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| Index |
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