Music Listening Today (with CD)

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Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

Charles Hoffer's best-selling MUSIC LISTENING TODAY is a complete course solution that develops students' listening skills while teaching them to appreciate the different styles, forms, and genres of music. This affordable, brief, chronological survey text features two CDs-automatically included with new copies of the book at no additional cost-that contain the text's core music selections. It also features CengageNOW, an online multimedia tool that helps students hone their listening skills while it aids instructors in organizing and managing their courses. As in previous editions, MUSIC LISTENING TODAY provides dozens of familiar and less familiar selections-all carefully chosen for their ability to get students interested in listening to all kinds of music. The text's modular format lets instructors teach in any way they choose.

Table of Contents

Preface xvi
PART I The Nature of Music
1(47)
Music Listening and You
2(8)
Different Types of Music
2(1)
``Classical'' Music: Music for Listening
2(1)
Ordinary Music and Extraordinary Music
3(1)
``I Know What I Like''
3(1)
Learning to Listen
4(3)
Listening and Studying
6(1)
Getting Started: The Theme from Star Wars
7(1)
Listening Guide Williams: Main Title from Star Wars
7(1)
CD 1 Tracks 1--3
John Williams
8(1)
``Connecting the Dots''
8(1)
The Goals of Music Appreciation
9(1)
Coda
9(1)
Rhythm
10(6)
Beat: The Music's Pulse
10(1)
Meter: The Patterns of Beats
10(1)
The Notation of Rhythm
11(1)
Syncopation
12(1)
Tempo: The Speed of Beats
12(1)
Rhythm in Bizet's Farandole
13(1)
Georges Bizet
13(1)
Listening Guide Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2
14(1)
CD 1 Tracks 4--6
Polyrhythm
14(1)
Listening Guide African Music: ``Mitamba Yalagala Kumchuzi''
15(1)
CD 3 Track 1
Coda
15(1)
Melody and Harmony
16(8)
Pitch: The High and Low of Sounds
16(1)
Melody: Pitches in a Cohesive Series
16(1)
Pitches in Music Notation
17(1)
Features of Melodies
17(1)
Listening Guide Copland: ``Simple Gifts''
18(1)
CD 1 Tracks 7--8
Aaron Copland
19(1)
What Affects the Impression of a Melody?
19(1)
Counterpoint: Melodies Sounded Together
20(1)
Harmony: Pitches Sounded Together
21(2)
Texture and the Ways Pitches Are Used
22(1)
Listening Guide Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2
23(1)
CD 1 Tracks 4--6
Coda
23(1)
Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization
24(6)
Dynamics: The Loud and Soft of Music
24(1)
Timbre: Color in Music
24(2)
Organization: Organized Sounds = Music
26(1)
Form: Planning in Music
26(1)
Genre and Movements
27(1)
Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez
27(1)
Joaquin Rodrigo
27(1)
Listening Guide Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Second Movement
28(1)
CD 1 Tracks 9--12
Coda
29(1)
Orchestral Instruments
30(9)
String Instruments
31(2)
Sound Production
31(1)
Modifying Basic Timbre
32(1)
Regulating Pitch
32(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
33(1)
Woodwind Instruments
33(2)
Sound Production
33(1)
Modifying Basic Timbre
34(1)
Regulating Pitch
34(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
34(1)
Brass Instruments
35(1)
Sound Production
35(1)
Modifying Sound
36(1)
Regulating Pitch
36(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
36(1)
Percussion Instruments
36(2)
Sound Production
37(1)
Modifying Sound
37(1)
Regulating Pitch
38(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
38(1)
Listening for Instruments
38(1)
Coda
38(1)
Other Musical Instruments
39(9)
The Voice
39(1)
Sound Production
39(1)
Modifying Basic Timbre
39(1)
Regulating Pitch
39(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
39(1)
Types of Voices
40(1)
Rutter's ``Open Thou Mine Eyes''
40(1)
John Rutter
40(1)
Listening Guide Rutter: ``Open Thou Mine Eyes''
41(1)
CD 1 Tracks 13--14
Wind Band Instruments
41(1)
Traditional Keyboard Instruments
42(2)
Harpsichord
42(1)
Piano
43(1)
Pipe Organ
43(1)
Sound Production
44(1)
Modifying Basic Timbre
44(1)
Regulating Pitch
44(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
44(1)
Changing Dynamic Level
44(1)
Folk Instruments
44(2)
Aerophones
45(1)
Ideophones
45(1)
Membranophones
45(1)
Chordophones
45(1)
Popular Instruments
46(1)
Guitar
46(1)
Accordion
46(1)
Electronic Instruments
46(1)
Coda
47(1)
PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music
48(26)
Early Western Music
50(6)
Ancient Greek and Roman Times
50(1)
The Middle Ages
51(1)
Music in the Middle Ages
52(1)
The Mass and Its Music
52(1)
Gregorian Chant
53(1)
Listening Guide Anonymous: ``Dies irae''
53(1)
Hildegard's Ordo virtutum
54(1)
CD 1 Track 15
Listening Guide Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum, excerpt from Scene 4
54(1)
CD 1 Tracks 2--3
Hildegard of Bingen
55(1)
Coda
55(1)
Medieval Music
56(7)
Medieval Times
56(1)
Polyphony
56(2)
Perotin's ``Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia''
58(1)
Listening Guide Perotin: ``Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia''
58(1)
CD 3 Tracks 4--6
Leonin and Perotin
59(1)
The Medieval Motet
59(1)
Music in the Rest of Europe
60(1)
Secular Music
60(1)
Listening Guide Anonymous: Estampie
61(1)
CD 3 Track 7
Features of Medieval Music
62(1)
Coda
62(1)
Renaissance Music
63(11)
The Renaissance Outlook
63(2)
Features and Types of Renaissance Music
65(1)
Josquin Des Prez
65(1)
The Renaissance Mass
66(1)
Listening Guide Josquin: Kyrie from Pange lingua Mass
66(1)
CD 3 Tracks 8--10
The Renaissance Motet
67(1)
Listening Guide Palestrina: ``Sicut cervus,'' Part I
68(1)
CD 1 Tracks 16--18
Palestrina's ``Sicut cervus''
68(1)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
69(1)
The Madrigal
69(2)
Weelkes's ``As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending''
70(1)
Listening Guide Weelkes: ``As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending''
71(1)
CD 1 Tracks 19--20
Thomas Weelkes
71(1)
Renaissance Instrumental Music
72(1)
Features of Renaissance Music
72(1)
Coda
73(1)
PART III Baroque Music
74(44)
The Baroque Period
76(10)
Styles in Music
76(1)
Characteristics of Baroque Style
76(1)
Grandiose Dimensions
76(1)
Love of Drama
77(1)
Religious Intensity
77(1)
Baroque Art
77(2)
Baroque Intellectual Activity
79(1)
Early Baroque Music
79(1)
Music in the Baroque
79(2)
Performance of Baroque Music
81(1)
Characteristics of Baroque Music
81(2)
Homophony
81(1)
Recitative
82(1)
Metrical Rhythm
82(1)
Major/Minor Keys
82(1)
Tonal Center
82(1)
Modulation
82(1)
Doctrine of Affections
83(1)
Handel's ``The Voice of Him That Crieth in the Wilderness'' from Messiah
83(1)
Listening Guide Handel: ``The Voice of Him That Crieth in the Wilderness''
83(1)
CD 1 Track 21
Features of Baroque Instrumental Music
84(1)
Tuning
84(1)
Terraced Dynamics
84(1)
Continuo
84(1)
Coda
85(1)
Oratorio and Cantata
86(9)
Oratorio
86(1)
Handel's Messiah
86(1)
Aria
86(2)
``Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted'' from Messiah
87(1)
Listening Guide Handel: ``Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted'' from Messiah
88(1)
CD 1 Tracks 22--23
Chorus
88(1)
George Frideric Handel
89(1)
``Hallelujah Chorus'' from Messiah
90(1)
Listening Guide Handel: ``Hallelujah Chorus'' from Messiah
90(1)
CD 1 Tracks 24--26
Chorale
91(1)
Cantata
92(1)
Bach's Cantata No. 140
92(1)
Listening Guide Bach: Chorale (Section 7) from Cantata No. 140
93(1)
CD 3 Track 11
Other Types of Baroque Vocal Music
93(1)
Listening Guide Bach: ``Zion Hears the Watchmen'' (Section 4) from Cantata No. 140
94(1)
CD 1 Tracks 27--28
Coda
94(1)
Opera in the Baroque
95(7)
The Elements of Opera
95(2)
Voices and Roles
95(1)
Ensembles
96(1)
The Orchestra
96(1)
The Libretto
96(1)
Staging
97(1)
Operatic Conventions
97(1)
Enjoying Opera
98(1)
Claudio Monteverdi
98(1)
Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea
99(1)
Listening Guide Monteverdi: Recitative from The Coronation of Poppea, Act I, Scene 1
99(1)
CD 3 Track 12
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
100(1)
Listening Guide Purcell: ``Dido's Lament'' from Dido and Aeneas
100(1)
CD 3 Tracks 13--14
Henry Purcell
101(1)
Coda
101(1)
Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata
102(7)
Baroque Instruments
102(1)
Pachelbel's Canon in D
103(1)
Listening Guide Pachelbel: Canon in D
103(1)
CD 3 Tracks 15--17
Johann Pachelbel
104(1)
The Suite
105(1)
Handel's ``Hornpipe'' from Water Music Suite
105(1)
Listening Guide Handel: ``Hornpipe'' from Water Music
105(1)
CD 3 Tracks 18--19
The Sonata
106(1)
Corelli's Trio Sonata
106(1)
Listening Guide Corelli: Trio Sonata in F, Op. 3, No. 1, Second Movement
106(1)
CD 3 Track 20
Arcangelo Corelli
107(1)
Listening Guide Corelli: Trio Sonata in F, Op. 3, No. 1, Third Movement
107(1)
CD 3 Track 21
Other Baroque Composers
108(1)
Coda
108(1)
Baroque Instrumental Music: Concerto and Fugue
109(9)
The Concerto Grosso
109(1)
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
109(1)
Listening Guide Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Third Movement
110(1)
CD 3 Tracks 22--24
Antonio Vivaldi
111(1)
Vivaldi's Concerto ``Spring'' from The Four Seasons
111(1)
The Fugue
111(1)
Listening Guide Vivaldi: ``Spring'' from The Four Seasons, First Movement
112(1)
CD 1 Tracks 29--33
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
113(1)
Other Keyboard Forms
113(1)
Listening Guide Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
114(1)
CD 1 Tracks 34--37
Johann Sebastian Bach
115(1)
Features of Baroque Music
116(1)
Coda
117(1)
PART IV Classical Music
118(50)
Classicism and Classical Music
120(5)
Cultural Setting
120(1)
Four Leaders
120(1)
Architecture
121(1)
Philosophy
121(1)
Toward Classicism: The Rococo Style
121(1)
Classical Art
122(1)
Characteristics of Classical Music
122(1)
Features to Listen for in Classical Music
123(1)
Melody
123(1)
Homophony
123(1)
Harmony
124(1)
Rhythm
124(1)
Dynamic Levels
124(1)
Performance
124(1)
Forms
124(1)
Coda
124(1)
Sonata Form
125(7)
Development in Musical Works
125(1)
Mozart's Symphony No. 40, K. 550
125(1)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
126(1)
The Plan of Sonata Form
126(3)
Exposition
127(1)
Development
128(1)
Listening Guide Mozart: Symphony No. 40, First Movement
129(1)
CD 1 Tracks 38--42
Recapitulation
130(1)
Other Aspects of Sonata Form
131(1)
Coda
131(1)
The Concerto
132(6)
The Solo Concerto
132(1)
Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219
132(1)
Listening Guide Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, First Movement
133(1)
CD 1 Tracks 25--30
The Second Movement of Concertos
134(1)
Rondo Form
134(1)
Haydn's Trumpet Concerto
135(1)
Listening Guide Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat, Third Movement
135(1)
CD 1 Tracks 43--45
Franz Joseph Haydn
136(1)
Coda
137(1)
Classical Opera
138(6)
The Development of Opera
138(1)
Mozart's Operas
138(1)
Mozart's Don Giovanni
138(2)
Listening Guide Mozart: Don Giovanni, excerpt from Act II, Scene 5
140(3)
CD 1 Tracks 46--49
Coda
143(1)
Chamber Music
144(7)
The Nature of Chamber Music
144(1)
Listening to Chamber Music
144(1)
Chamber Music in the Classical Period
145(1)
The Sonata
145(1)
The String Quartet
146(1)
Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 (``Emperor'')
146(1)
Other Types of Chamber Music Groups
146(1)
Listening Guide Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, ``Emperor,'' Third Movement
147(1)
CD 3 Tracks 31--32
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet
148(1)
Listening Guide Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Fourth Movement
149(1)
CD 3 Tracks 33--38
Coda
150(1)
Piano Sonatas
151(7)
The Sonata
151(1)
The Piano
151(1)
Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11
152(1)
Listening Guide Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331, Third Movement, ``Rondo alla Turca''
152(1)
CD 3 Tracks 39--43
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 (``Waldstein'')
153(1)
First Movement
153(1)
Listening Guide Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53, ``Waldstein,'' First Movement
154(1)
CD 4 Tracks 1--5
Ludwig van Beethoven
155(2)
Second Movement
156(1)
Third Movement
156(1)
Coda
157(1)
The Symphony and Beethoven
158(10)
The Symphony
158(1)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
158(2)
First Movement
159(1)
Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, First Movement
160(1)
CD 2 Tracks 1--5
Second Movement
161(1)
Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Second Movement
162(1)
CD 4 Tracks 6--10
Third Movement
163(1)
Fourth Movement
163(1)
Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Third Movement
164(1)
CD 4 Tracks 11--14
Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Fourth Movement
165(1)
CD 4 Tracks 15--18
Appreciating Beethoven's Music
166(1)
Features of Classical Music
166(1)
Coda
167(1)
PART V Romantic Music
168(72)
Romance and Romanticism
170(6)
Characteristics of Romanticism
170(3)
Romantic Art
173(1)
The Split Personality of Romanticism
173(2)
Coda
175(1)
Early Romantic Music
176(8)
What to Listen For in Romantic Music
176(1)
The Art Song
176(2)
Schubert's ``Der Erlkonig''
178(1)
Franz Schubert
178(1)
Listening Guide Schubert: ``Der Erlkonig''
179(1)
CD 2 Tracks 6--8
Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Fourth Movement
180(1)
Listening Guide Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 (``Italian''), Fourth Movement
180(1)
CD 4 Tracks 19--22
Felix Mendelssohn & Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
181(1)
Where Are the Women Composers?
182(1)
Solo and Chamber Music
182(1)
Coda
183(1)
Romantic Piano Music
184(9)
Character Pieces
184(1)
Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat
185(1)
Listening Guide Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
185(1)
CD 4 Tracks 23--24
Frederic Chopin
186(1)
Virtuoso Music
187(1)
Liszt's La Campanella
187(1)
Listening Guide Liszt: La Campanella
188(1)
CD 2 Tracks 9--10
Niccolo Paganini & Franz Liszt
189(1)
Robert Schumann & Clara Wieck Schumann
190(1)
Clara Schumann's Scherzo, Op. 10
191(1)
Listening Guide Clara Schumann: Scherzo, Op. 10 in D Minor
191(1)
CD 4 Tracks 25--27
Coda
192(1)
Program and Ballet Music
193(10)
Nature of Program Music
193(1)
Types of Program Music
193(1)
Concert Overture
193(1)
Incidental Music
194(1)
Tone Poem
194(1)
Program Symphony
194(1)
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
194(3)
Hector Berlioz
197(1)
Listening Guide Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, Fifth Movement
198(1)
CD 2 Tracks 11--15
Richard Strauss
198(1)
Ballet and Ballet Music
199(1)
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
199(1)
The Development of Ballet
200(1)
Listening Guide Tchaikovsky: ``Waltz of the Flowers'' from The Nutcracker
201(1)
CD 4 Tracks 28--30
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
202(1)
Coda
202(1)
Romantic Opera
203(11)
The Italian Style
203(1)
Verdi's Rigoletto
203(1)
Puccini's La boheme
203(1)
Listening Guide Verdi: ``La donna e mobile'' from Rigoletto
204(1)
CD 4 Track 31
Giuseppe Verdi & Giacomo Puccini
205(1)
Listening Guide Puccini: La boheme, excerpt from Act I
206(2)
CD 2 Tracks 16--17
The French Style
208(1)
The German Style
209(1)
Wagner's Music Dramas
209(1)
Wagner's Gotterdammerung
210(1)
Listening Guide Wagner: Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung
211(2)
CD 4 Tracks 32--40
Richard Wagner
213(1)
Coda
213(1)
Late Romantic Music
214(10)
Brahms's Symphony No. 4
214(1)
First Movement
214(1)
Listening Guide Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, First Movement
215(2)
CD 2 Tracks 18--22
Second, Third, and Fourth Movements
217(1)
Brahms's A German Requiem
217(1)
Johannes Brahms
218(1)
Listening Guide Brahms: A German Requiem, Part IV, ``How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place''
219(1)
CD 4 Tracks 41--43
Dvorak's American String Quartet in F Major
220(1)
First Movement
220(1)
Antonin Dvorak
220(1)
Listening Guide Dvorak: American Quartet, First Movement
221(1)
CD 5 Tracks 1--5
Second, Third, and Fourth Movements
221(1)
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4
222(1)
Listening Guide Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36, Fourth Movement
222(1)
CD 5 Tracks 6--9
Coda
223(1)
Nationalism
224(8)
Characteristics of Nationalism
224(1)
The Russian Five
224(1)
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
225(1)
Listening Guide Mussorgsky: Coronation scene from Boris Godunov
226(2)
CD 5 Tracks 10--13
Modest Mussorgsky
228(1)
Bohemia
228(1)
Smetana's Moldau
228(1)
Listening Guide Smetana: The Moldau from Ma vlast
229(1)
CD 5 Tracks 14--18
Bedrich Smetana
230(1)
Other Nationalistic Composers
230(1)
Norway
230(1)
Finland
230(1)
England
230(1)
Italy
231(1)
Spain
231(1)
France
231(1)
United States
231(1)
Coda
231(1)
Impressionism and Post-Romanticism
232(8)
Characteristics of Impressionism
232(2)
Debussy's ``Clair de lune''
234(1)
Listening Guide Debussy: ``Clair de lune''
234(1)
CD 2 Tracks 23--25
Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
235(1)
Listening Guide Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2, ``Lever du jour'' (``Daybreak'')
235(1)
CD 5 Tracks 19--21
Debussy, Ravel, & Rachmaninoff
236(1)
Post-Romanticism
237(1)
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
237(1)
Listening Guide Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
238(1)
CD 5 Tracks 22--26
Features of Romantic Music
239(1)
Coda
239(1)
PART VI Twentieth-Century Music
240(42)
Music in the Twentieth Century
242(6)
The Tremendous and Tumultuous Century
242(1)
Twentieth-Century Art
243(1)
Describing Twentieth-Century Music
244(1)
What to Listen For in Twentieth-Century Music
244(3)
Rhythm
244(1)
Melody
245(1)
Harmony and Counterpoint
245(1)
Dissonance
246(1)
Timbre
246(1)
Form
246(1)
Sources
246(1)
Coda
247(1)
The Mainstream
248(9)
Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
248(1)
First, Second, and Third Movements
248(1)
Fourth Movement
249(1)
Listening Guide Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Fourth Movement
249(1)
CD 2 Tracks 26--28
Bela Bartok
250(1)
Fifth Movement
250(1)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
250(1)
Listening Guide Villa-Lobos: Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
251(1)
CD 5 Tracks 27--29
Heitor Villa-Lobos
252(1)
Britten's War Requiem
252(1)
Listening Guide Britten: Dies irae from War Requiem, excerpt from beginning
253(1)
CD 2 Tracks 29--30
Benjamin Britten
254(1)
Other Mainstream Composers
255(1)
Russia
255(1)
England
255(1)
France
255(1)
Lili and Nadia Boulanger
255(1)
Latin America
256(1)
Coda
256(1)
Expressionism and Primitivism
257(9)
Expressionism
257(1)
Berg's Wozzeck
258(1)
Listening Guide Berg: Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 2
259(2)
CD 5 Tracks 30--31
Alban Berg
261(1)
Primitivism
261(1)
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
262(1)
Listening Guide Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, excerpts from Act I
263(1)
CD 2 Tracks 31--33
Igor Stravinsky
264(1)
What Is Beautiful? What Is Fascinating?
265(1)
Coda
265(1)
Neoclassicism and Tone Row Music
266(9)
Neoclassical Style
266(1)
Neoclassicism in Music
266(1)
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony
267(1)
Sergei Prokofiev
267(1)
First Movement
268(1)
Listening Guide Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Op. 25, First Movement
268(1)
CD 6 Tracks 1--4
Second Movement
268(1)
Third Movement
269(1)
Fourth Movement
269(1)
Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik
269(1)
Paul Hindemith
269(1)
Listening Guide Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik fur Funf Blaser, Op. 24, No. 2, Fifth Movement
270(1)
CD 6 Tracks 5--6
Other Neoclassical Works
271(1)
Tone Row Music
271(1)
Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra
271(1)
Arnold Schoenberg
272(1)
Listening Guide Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra excerpt
273(1)
CD 6 Tracks 7--8
Serialism: Beyond Tone Rows
273(1)
Coda
274(1)
New Sounds and New Techniques
275(7)
Extensions of Serialism
275(1)
Chance Music
275(1)
Electronic Music
276(1)
Varese's Poeme electronique
277(1)
Listening Guide Varese: Poeme electronique, beginning
278(1)
CD 2 Track 34
Edgard Varese
278(1)
Eclecticism
279(1)
Crumb's Night of the Four Moons
279(1)
George Crumb
279(1)
Listening Guide Crumb: ``The moon is dead, dead . . .'' from Night of the Four Moons
280(1)
CD 6 Tracks 9--10
Coda: The Twenty-First Century
280(1)
Features of Twentieth-Century Music
281(1)
PART VII Music in the United States
282(56)
American Music before 1920
284(10)
Art in America
284(1)
The Eighteenth Century
285(2)
America's Patriotic Songs
287(1)
The Nineteenth Century
288(1)
The Early Twentieth Century
289(1)
Sousa and Wind Band Music
289(1)
Listening Guide Sousa: ``The Stars and Stripes Forever''
290(1)
CD 6 Tracks 11--13
John Philip Sousa
291(1)
Ives's Symphony No. 2
291(1)
Listening Guide Ives: Symphony No. 2, Fifth Movement
292(1)
CD 6 Tracks 14--18
Charles Ives
293(1)
Coda
293(1)
Concert Music since 1920
294(9)
Nationalism
294(1)
Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man
295(1)
Listening Guide Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
296(1)
CD 6 Tracks 19--20
Copland's Appalachian Spring
297(1)
Listening Guide Copland: Appalachian Spring, Section 7
298(1)
CD 2 Tracks 35--37
Neoclassicism
299(1)
Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985
299(1)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
299(1)
Listening Guide Zwilich: Concerto Grosso 1985, First Movement
300(1)
CD 2 Tracks 38--39
Minimalism
300(1)
Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine
301(1)
Listening Guide Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
301(1)
CD 6 Tracks 21--22
John Adams
302(1)
Coda
302(1)
Popular Music and Jazz to 1950
303(1)
Popular Music before 1850
303(1)
Foster's ``Beautiful Dreamer''
304(1)
Listening Guide Foster: ``Beautiful Dreamer''
304(11)
CD 6 Track 23
Stephen Foster
305(1)
Toward Tin Pan Alley and Ragtime
305(1)
Tin Pan Alley
306(1)
Ragtime
306(1)
Scott Joplin
306(1)
Listening Guide Joplin: ``Maple Leaf Rag''
307(1)
CD 6 Tracks 24--27
Blues
308(1)
Smith's ``Lost Your Head Blues''
308(1)
Listening Guide Smith: ``Lost Your Head Blues''
308(1)
CD 6 Track 28
Bessie Smith
309(1)
Jazz
309(2)
Elements of Jazz
309(1)
Types of Jazz
310(1)
Listening Guide Armstrong: ``Come Back, Sweet Papa''
311(1)
CD 6 Track 29
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
312(2)
Listening Guide Ellington: ``Take the `A' Train''
314(1)
CD 2 Tracks 40--41
Coda
314(1)
Popular Music since 1950
315(12)
The Popular Music Industry
315(1)
Blues and Soul
316(2)
Rhythm and Blues
317(1)
Soul
318(1)
Rap
318(1)
Country Music
318(1)
Characteristics of Country Music
318(1)
Development of Country Music
319(1)
Listening Guide Williams: ``Your Cheatin' Heart''
319(1)
CD 6 Tracks 30--31
Types of Country Music
320(1)
Rock
320(3)
Characteristics of Rock
321(1)
Developments in Rock since 1965
322(1)
Music Videos
323(1)
Other Types of Popular Music
323(2)
Latin American
323(1)
Modern Jazz
324(1)
Brubeck's ``Blue Rondo a la Turk''
325(1)
Listening Guide Brubeck: ``Blue Rondo a la Turk''
325(1)
CD 6 Tracks 32--33
Coda
326(1)
Music for Stage and Film
327(11)
Early Concerts
327(1)
Minstrel Shows
327(1)
Vaudeville
327(1)
Musical Comedy and Broadway Musicals
328(1)
Bernstein's West Side Story
328(1)
Listening Guide Bernstein: ``Tonight'' (Quintet) from West Side Story
329(2)
CD 2 Tracks 42--44
Leonard Bernstein
331(1)
Operatic Musicals
331(1)
American Opera
332(1)
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
333(1)
George Gershwin
333(1)
Listening Guide Gershwin: ``Summertime'' from Porgy and Bess
334(1)
CD 6 Track 34
Music for Films
335(1)
Role
335(1)
Development
335(1)
Williams's Main Title from Star Wars
336(1)
Music and Visual Images
337(1)
Coda
337(1)
PART VIII Music around the World
338(29)
Folk and Ethnic Music
340(5)
What Is Folk and Ethnic Music?
340(1)
Knowing Folk and Ethnic Music
340(1)
Influence of Folk and Ethnic Music
340(1)
Reflecting Culture
341(1)
The Global Village
341(1)
How Are Folk and Ethnic Music Different?
341(2)
Lack of Uniformity
341(1)
Creation
342(1)
Individual Changes
342(1)
Importance of the Performers
342(1)
Improvisation
342(1)
Audience
342(1)
Subtleties, Shadings, and Sophistication
343(1)
Oral Tradition
343(1)
Preservation
343(1)
Music and Culture
343(1)
Listening to Folk and Ethnic Music
344(1)
Coda
344(1)
Folk Music of Europe and the Americas
345(9)
European Folk Music
345(1)
Melody
345(1)
Harmony
345(1)
Timbre
345(1)
Accompaniment
345(1)
Form
346(1)
Subject Matter
346(1)
Rhythm
346(1)
Listening Guide English Ballad: ``Barbara Allen''
346(1)
CD 6 Track 35
American Folk Music
347(2)
Work Songs
347(1)
Occupational Songs
347(1)
Dance Music
348(1)
Self-Expression
349(1)
Arrangements
349(1)
Native American Music
349(1)
African American Music
350(2)
Calls and Hollers
350(1)
Spirituals
350(1)
Folk Blues
351(1)
Work Songs
352(1)
Instruments
352(1)
Latin American Music
352(1)
Listening Guide Mexican Folk Song: ``Sones de Hausteca''
353(1)
CD 6 Track 36
Coda
353(1)
Music of Africa and the Middle East
354(6)
African Music
354(3)
Relationship with Language
354(1)
Association with Dance
354(1)
Rhythm
355(1)
Improvisation
355(1)
Functional Music
356(1)
Lack of Uniformity
356(1)
Form
356(1)
Melodic Characteristics
356(1)
Beliefs about Music and Instruments
356(1)
Instruments
357(1)
Middle Eastern Music
357(1)
Listening Guide Iran: ``Segah''
358(1)
CD 6 Track 37
Jewish Music
358(1)
Coda
359(1)
Music of Asia
360(7)
Indian Music
360(2)
Ragas
360(1)
Talas
361(1)
Musical Instruments
361(1)
Performances
362(1)
Texture
362(1)
Listening Guide India: ``Raga: Hansa-Dhwani''
362(1)
CD 6 Track 38
Form
362(1)
Cultural Outlook
363(1)
Chinese Music
363(1)
Japanese Music
364(1)
Listening Guide Japan: ``Hakusen no''
365(1)
CD 6 Track 39
Balinese Music
365(1)
Listening Guide Bali (Indonesia): ``Gender Wajang''
366(1)
CD 6 Track 40
Coda
366(1)
Glossary 367(5)
Listening Guides Indexed by Composer 372(1)
Index of Composer Biographies 373(1)
Index 374(5)
Performers List 379

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