| Preface | |
| Elements | |
| Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color Pitch: Highnessor Lowness of Sound Dynamics Tone Color Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III by Richard Wagner | |
| Listening Outline C-Jam Blues | |
| Listening Outline | |
| Performing Media: Voices and Instruments Voices Musical Instruments String Instruments Woodwind Instruments Brass Instruments Percussion Instruments Keyboard Instruments Electronic Instruments | |
| The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 | |
| listening outline | |
| Rhythm Beat Meter Accent and Syncopation Tempo | |
| Music Notation Notating Pitch Notating Rhythm Notating Silence (Rests) Notating Meter The Score | |
| Melody | |
| Harmony Consonance and Dissonance | |
| The Triad Broken Chords (Arpegios) | |
| Key | |
| The Major Scale | |
| The Minor Scale | |
| The Key Signature | |
| The Chromatic Scale Modulation: Change of Key Tonic Key | |
| Musical Texture | |
| Monophonic Texture | |
| Polyphonic Texture | |
| Homophonic Texture | |
| Changes of Texture | |
| Farandole from L'Arlesienne (The Woman from Arles) Suite No.2 | |
| Listening Outline | |
| Musical Form Techniques That Create Musical Form Repetition Contrast Variation Types of Musical Form Three-Part (Ternary) Form: A B A Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker Suite | |
| Listening Outline Two-Part (Binary) Form: A B Forlane from Suite No.1 in C Major for Orchestra | |
| Listening Outline Listening for Form | |
| Musical Style | |
| The Middle Ages And Renaissance | |
| Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450) Gregorian Chant | |
| The Church Modes Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We have seen his star) | |
| Vocal Music Guide O Successores (You successors) by Hildegard of Bingen | |
| Vocal Music Guide Secular Music in the Middle Ages Estampie | |
| The Development of Polyphony: Organum School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm | |
| Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France Guilaume de Machaut Notre | |
| Dame Mass: Agnus Dei Vocal Music Guide | |
| Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600) Characteristics of Renaissance Music Word and Music Texture Rhythm and Melody Sacred Music in the Renaissance Josquin Desprez and the Renaissance Motet Ave Maria...virgo serena (Hail Mary...serene virgin) | |
| Vocal Music Guide Palestrina and the Renaissance Mass Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie Secular Music in the Renaissance | |
| Vocal Music: The Renaissance Madrigal As Vesta Was Descending | |
| Vocal Music Guide Instrumental Music Passamezzo and Galiard | |
| Caroubel, from Terpsichore | |
| The Baroque Period | |
| Baroque Music (1600-1750) Characteristics of Baroque Music Unity of Mood Rhythm Melody Dynamics Texture Chords and the Basso Continuo (Figured Bass) Words and Music | |
| The Baroque Orchestra Baroque Forms | |
| Music In Baroque Society | |
| The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D Major | |
| Listening Outline | |
| The Fugue Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue) | |
| Listening Outline | |
| The Elements Of Opera | |
| Opera In The Baroque Era | |
| Claudio Monteverdi Orfeo (Orpheus)< | |
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