Front Matter
Chapter 1: Music Fundamentals
1.1 Objectives
1.2 Key Terms and individuals
1.3 What is Music?
1.3.1 Acoustics
1.3.2 Sound and Sound Waves
1.3.3 Properties of Sound: Pitch
1.3.4 Other Properties of Sound: Dynamics, Articulation, and Timbre
1.4 Music Notation
1.5 Performing Forces for Music
1.5.1 The Human Voice as a Performing Force
1.5.2 Musical Instruments as Performing Forces
1.5.3 Non-Acoustic Instruments
1.6 New Recording Technologies
1.6.1 Auto-Tune and Looping
1.7 Melody
1.8 Harmony
1.9 Rhythm
1.10 Texture
1.11 Putting It All Together
1.11.1 Form in Music
1.11.2 The Twelve-Bar Blues
1.11.3 AABA Form
1.11.4 Verse and Chorus Forms
1.11.5 Composition and improvisation
1.11.6 Music and Categories
1.12 Chapter Summary
1.13 Glossary
Chapter 2: Music of the Middle Ages
2.1 Objectives
2.2 Key Terms and Individuals
2.3 Introduction and Historical Context
2.3.1 Musical Timeline
2.3.2 Introduction
2.3.3 Historical Context for Music of the Middle Ages (800–1400)
2.4 Music in the Middle Ages: An Overview
2.5 Music for Medieval Christian Worship
2.5.1 The Emergence of Polyphonic Music for the Medieval Church
2.6 Music in Medieval Courts
2.7 Chapter Summary
2.8 Glossary
Chapter 3: Music of the Renaissance
3.1 Objectives
3.2 Key Terms and Individuals
3.3 Introduction and Historical Context
3.3.1 What Is the Renaissance?
3.3.2 Renaissance Timeline
3.3.3 Renaissance Humanism
3.3.4 Rebirth of Ancient Civilizations
3.3.5 Symmetry and Perspective in Art
3.3.6 The Protestant Reformation
3.3.7 Gutenberg Press
3.3.8 Columbus's Voyage
3.4 Music of the Renaissance
3.4.1 Style Overview
3.5 Worship Music
3.5.1 Motet
3.5.2 Music of Catholicism–Renaissance Mass
3.5.3 Music of the Protestant Reformation
3.5.4 The Anthem
3.6 Secular Music-Entertainment Music Of The Renaissance
3.6.1 Thomas Weelkes
3.6.2 Renaissance Dance Music
3.7 Chapter Summary
3.8 Glossary
Chapter 4: Music of the Baroque Period
4.1 Objectives
4.2 Key Terms and Individuals
4.3 Introduction and Historical Context
4.3.1 Science
4.3.2 Philosophy
4.3.3 Art
4.3.4 Literature
4.3.5 Politics
4.3.6 Exploration and Colonialism
4.3.7 Musical Timeline
4.4 Music in the Baroque Period
4.4.1 Music Comparison Overview
4.4.2 General Trends of Baroque Music
4.4.3 Genres of the Baroque Period
4.5 Birth of Opera
4.6 New Music for Instruments
4.6.1 Rise of the Orchestra and the Concerto
4.7 Music of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
4.8 Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
4.9 Chapter Summary
4.10 Glossary
Chapter 5: Music of the Classical Period
5.1 Objectives
5.2 Key Terms and Individuals
5.3 Introduction and Historical Context
5.3.1 The Visual Arts and Architecture
5.3.2 Music in Late Eighteenth Century
5.3.3 Musical Timeline
5.4 Music in the Classical Period
5.4.1 Music Comparison Overview
5.4.2 General Trends of Classical Music
5.5 Music of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
5.5.1 Overview of Haydn's Music
5.6 Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
5.6.1 Overview of Mozart's Music
5.7 Music of Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)
5.7.1 Overview of Beethoven's Music
5.8 Chapter Summary
5.9 Glossary
Chapter 6: Nineteenth-Century Music and Romanticism
6.1 Objectives
6.2 Key Terms and Individuals
6.3 Introduction and Historical Context
6.3.1 Philosophy
6.3.2 Science
6.3.3 Visual Art
6.3.4 Literature
6.3.5 Nineteenth-Century Musical Contexts
6.3.6 Musical Timeline
6.4 Music in the Nineteenth Century
6.4.1 Music Comparison Overview
6.4.2 General Trends in Nineteenth Century Music
6.5 Music of Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
6.6 Music of the Mendelssohns
6.7 Music of the Schumanns
6.8 Music of Fryderyk Chopin
6.9 Music of Franz Liszt
6.10 Music of Hector Berlioz
6.11 Music of Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
6.12 Music of Nationalism
6.13 Music of Bedřich Smetana
6.14 Music of Antonín Dvořák
6.14.1 Music for Orchestra
6.14.2 Music for Chamber Ensembles
6.14.3 Operas
6.14.4 Choral and Vocal Works
6.15 Music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky
6.16 Music of John Philip Sousa
6.17 Music of Giuseppe Verdi
6.18 Music of Richard Wagner
6.19 Chapter Summary
6.20 Glossary
Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century and beyond
7.1 Objectives
7.2 Key Terms
7.3 Introduction and Historical Context:
7.3.1 Melody
7.3.2 Harmony
7.3.3 Rhythm
7.3.4 Texture and Timbre
7.3.5 The Role of Music
7.3.6 Compositional Styles: The "-Isms"
7.3.7 Impressionism
7.4 Expressionism and Serialism
7.5 Primitivism in Music
7.6 Neoclassicism
7.7 Minimalism
7.8 The American Style
7.9 The Late Twentieth Century
7.9.1 Musique Concrète
7.9.2 Elektronische Musik
7.9.3 Laptop Orchestras
7.9.4 Film Music
7.9.5 Music for New Media
7.10 Chapter Summary
7.11 Glossary
Chapter 8: Popular Music in the United States
8.1 Objectives
8.2 Key Terms
8.3 Introduction
8.4 Early American Popular Music—or Not!
8.4.1 Ragtime
8.4.2 The Blues
8.4.3 Jazz
Later Jazz Styles
8.5 The Rs: Rock, Rhythm and Blues and Rap
8.5.1 Rhythm and Blues
8.5.2 Rock and Roll
8.5.3 Rap
8.6 Folk Music
8.7 Country Music
8.8 Music for the Stage
8.8.1 Early Broadway: Operettas
8.8.2 Broadway Musical
8.8.3 American Opera
8.9 Chapter Summary
8.10 Glossary
Appendix: Music of the World
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Important Terms
A.3 North America
A.3.1 Native American Music
A.3.2 Tejano (Texmex)
A.3.3 Southwest Louisiana
A.4 European Folk Music
A.4.1 France
A.4.2 Celtic (Ancient Scotland, Ireland, and a Small Portion of france)
A.4.3 Norway
A.4.4 Russia
A.4.5 Balkan Peninsula (Southeastern Europe)
A.5 Asian Music
A.5.1 India
A.5.2 Japan
A.5.3 China
A.5.4 Indonesia
A.6 South and Central American Folk Music
A.7 Carribean Pop Music
A.8 African Folk Music
A.8.1 Zimbabwe
A.8.2 Senegal
A.9 Glossary