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| Author's Note | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prelude: Music Belongs to Everyone | |
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| The Musical Process | |
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| From the Creator to the Listener | |
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| What to Listen for in Music | |
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| The Sensory Approach | |
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| The Emotional Approach | |
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| The Contextual Approach | |
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| The Script Approach | |
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| The Musically Aware Approach | |
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| Music Listening Checklist | |
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| Music Listening Boxes | |
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| Individual Listening Guides | |
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| Additional Listening Help | |
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| Becoming a Musically Aware Concertgoer | |
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| What Are the Different Types of Concerts? | |
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| Listening Activity: Martin Bookspan, Host | |
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| How Can I Find Out about Concerts and Ticket Sales? | |
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| How Can I Prepare for a Concert? | |
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| How Can I Prepare for Opera? | |
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| What Do I Need to Know Before the Concert Begins? | |
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| What Is in the Printed Program? | |
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| What Concert Traditions Do I Need to Know About? | |
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| When Should I Applaud? | |
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| What Is the Conductor's Role? | |
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| The Materials of Music | |
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| How the Basic Musical Elements Interact | |
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| Multimedia Presentation | |
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| Listening Guide: Elements of Music: Martin Bookspan, Host | |
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| Performing Media: Instruments, Voices, and Ensembles | |
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| Acoustics of Vocal and Instrumental Sound | |
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| Instrumental Performing Media | |
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| How Instruments Produce Sound | |
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| Performing Media and Performances: Solo Instruments and Ensembles | |
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| The Orchestra and its Instruments | |
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| How Do I Become Familiar with the Instruments? | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | |
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| How the Orchestra Developed | |
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| Listening Activity: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, "Spring," Op. 8, First Movement | |
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| Listening Activity: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No.2, Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity: Haydn, Symphony No.94 (Surprise), Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity: Beethoven, Symphony No.5, First Movement | |
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| Listening Activity: Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Fifth Movement | |
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| Listening Activity: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, "Sacrificial Dance" | |
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| The Wind Ensemble | |
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| Keyboard Instruments | |
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| Listening Activity: Bach, Fugue in G Minor (Little) | |
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| Listening Activity: Mozart, Variations "Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman" K.265 | |
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| Listening Activity: Chopin, Fantaisie Impromptu, Opus 66 | |
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| Electronic Instruments | |
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| Human Voice | |
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| Listening Activity: Mozart,"Madamina" Aria from Don Giovanni | |
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| Listening Activity: Puccini, La Boheme (The Bohemian Life), Act 1 (excerpt) | |
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| The Common Style Periods of Concert Music | |
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| An introduction to Musical Styles | |
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| Why Study Musical Styles? | |
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| Music Before 1600 | |
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| The Middle Ages (450-1450) | |
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| Music of the Middle Ages | |
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| Listening Activity, Gregorian Chant: Alleluia Pascha Nostrum | |
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| The Beginnings of Polyphony | |
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| Listening Activity, Organum: Leonin, Alleluia Dies Sanctificatus | |
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| The Renaissance (1450-1600) | |
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| Music in the Renaissance | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Polyphonic Music | |
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| Palestrina's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity: Palestrina, De Beata Virgine, "Kyrie" from the Mass | |
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| The Baroque Style Period (1600-1750) | |
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| Protestant Reformation | |
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| Counter-Reformation | |
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| Baroque Style Music (1600-1750) | |
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| Changes Occur in the New Baroque Music | |
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| Baroque-Style Vocal Music | |
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| Monteverdi's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Baroque Oratorio | |
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| Schutz's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Handel's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Handel, Messiah, "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" | |
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| Baroque Cantata | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Baroque Music | |
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| Bach's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Bach, Cantata No. 140, "Opening Chorus" | |
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| Baroque Instrumental Music | |
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| Vivaldi's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Vivaldi, The four Seasons, "Spring" First Movement | |
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| Baroque Keyboard Music | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No.2, Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Bach, Fugue in G minor (Little) | |
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| The Classical Style Period (1750-1820) | |
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| Political and Social Background | |
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| Classical Origins | |
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| Music of the Classical Period | |
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| Mozart | |
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| Haydn | |
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| Young Beethoven | |
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| Mozart's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Haydn's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Classical Music | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mozart, Variations "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman," K. 265 | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mozart, Horn Concerto No.2, Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.8 in c minor, Opus 13 "Pathetique," Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Haydn, Symphony No.94, "Surprise" Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mozart, Symphony No.40, First Movement | |
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| Classical-Period Opera | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mozart, "Madamina" Aria from Don Giovanni | |
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| Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism | |
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| Beethoven's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.8 (Pathetique), Third Movement | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Beethoven, Symphony No.5, First Movement | |
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| The Great Ninth Symphony (Choral) | |
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| The Romantic Style Period (1820-1900) | |
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| Romantic Subjects | |
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| Romanticism in Music | |
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| Early Romantic Music | |
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| Orchestral Music | |
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| Berlioz's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Fifth Movement | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Early Romantic Music | |
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| The Romantic Art Song | |
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| Schubert's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Schubert, Erlking | |
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| Robert Schumann's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Romantic Piano Music | |
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| Clara Schumann's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Schumann (Clara), Scherzo, Opus 10 | |
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| Chopin's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 | |
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| Liszt's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Felix Mendelssohn's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Fanny Mendelssohn's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mendelssohn, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, First Movement | |
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| Romantic Opera | |
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| Italian Romantic Opera | |
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| Donizetti's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Bellini's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Rossini's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Verdi's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Verdi, La Traviata, Act 1, "E strano! E strano!" "Sempre libera" "Follie, Follie" | |
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| Puccini's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity: Puccini, La Boheme, Act 1, duet | |
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| Offenbach's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| French Romantic Opera | |
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| Bizet's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| German Romantic Opera | |
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| Weber's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Wagner's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | |
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| Listening Insights: Understanding Wagnerian Opera | |
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| Late Romantic Music | |
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| The State of Music in the Late Romantic Period | |
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| Brahms's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Brahms, Academic Festival Overture | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Romantic Chamber Music | |
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| Mahler's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer, "Ging Heut Morgen uber Feld" | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Mahler, Symphony No. 1, First Movement | |
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| Strauss's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Programmatic and Highly Descriptive Music | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Political Influences | |
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| Nationalism in Music | |
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| Mussorgsky's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Tchaikovsky's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Nationalistic Music | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Tchaikovsky, The 1812 Overture | |
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| Rimsky-Korsakov's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Rachmaninov's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Bartok's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Impressionistic Poetry and Painting | |
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| Impressionism in Music | |
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| Debussy's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen For in Impressionistic Music | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | |
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| Ravel's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Modernism and Post-Modernism | |
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| Influence of the World Wars | |
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| Art Redefined | |
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| Overview of the Modernist/Post-Modernist Period (1900-Today) | |
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| Characteristics of Modernist/Post-Modernist Music | |
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| Stravinsky: Into the Twentieth Century | |
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| Stravinsky's Pivotal Position | |
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| Stravinsky's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring "Sacrificial Dance" | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Modernist and Post-Modernist Music | |
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| Expressionism: Atonal Music | |
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| Atonality | |
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| Schoenberg's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Tone Row/Serial Music | |
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| Listening Activity: Schoenberg, Suite for Piano, Op.25 "Praeludium" | |
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| Berg's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Neoclassicism: Mainstream Music | |
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| Beginnings of Neoclassicism | |
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| Prokofiev's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 "Classical," First Movement | |
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| Shostakovich's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Moving Back to the Mainstream | |
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| Spotlight: Outstanding Artist-Teacher: Nadia Boulanger | |
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| Experimental and Technological Music | |
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| Musique Concrete | |
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| Electronic Music | |
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| Computer and Mixed Media Music | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Chance and Aleatoric Music | |
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| What Lies Ahead? | |
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| Classical Music in North America | |
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| Immigration | |
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| American Composers | |
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| Amy Beach's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Ives' Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Ives, song: "Charlie Rutlage" | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in the Music of Charles Ives | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Ives, First Orchestral Set: Three Places in New England, "Putnam's Camp" | |
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| Gershwin's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess "Bess, You is My Woman Now" | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Contemporary Eclectic Music | |
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| Copland's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Copland, Rodeo Ballet, "Hoe Down" | |
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| Bernstein's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Bernstein, Overture to Candide | |
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| Other American Composers | |
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| Menotti's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Zwilich's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Zwilich, Concerto Grosso, 1985, First Movement | |
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| Music of Cultural Diversity | |
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| Jazz: The Great American Art Form | |
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| The Origins and Emergence of Jazz | |
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| Blues | |
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| Joplin's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Joplin, "The Entertainer" | |
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| Early Jazz to 1930 | |
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| Armstrong's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Ellington's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Jazz After World War II | |
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| Popular Music | |
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| The Development of Modern Popular Music | |
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| Tin Pan Alley | |
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| The Impact of Media | |
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| The Birth of Recording | |
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| Popular Singing | |
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| Lush and Lovely: The Jazz Divas | |
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| Music and the Music Industry 1950s to the Present: Something for Everyone | |
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| The World of Rock and Roll | |
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| Something for Everyone | |
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| Folk and Folk-Rock | |
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| Motown | |
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| Rhythm & Blues (R & B) and Soul | |
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| Rap: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Roots | |
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| Some Classic Rock Bands | |
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| The British Invasion | |
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| The Great American Rock Bands (1960s and 1970s) | |
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| Who Else Has Been Influential? | |
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| Country Music | |
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| Country Music Association | |
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| Making and Marketing Popular Music in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Broadway Musical Theater | |
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| The Broadway Musical: Its Roots | |
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| North American Roots of the Musical | |
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| Stephen Foster's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| From Minstrelsy to Vaudeville | |
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| Romberg's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Herbert's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Friml's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Berlin's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Kern's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity and Guide: Kern, Show Boat, "Ol' Man River" | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Broadway Musicals | |
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| Porter's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Rodgers' Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Sondheim's Biography and Principal Works | |
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| Listening Activity: Sondheim, A Little Night Music, "Send in the Clowns" | |
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| Listening Activity: Bernstein, Overture to Candide | |
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| Listening Activity; Bock, Fiddler on the Roof, "Sunrise, Sunset" | |
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| Musicals Adapted from Other Sources | |
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| Other Notable Composers and Lyricists | |
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| Music in the Movies | |
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| How It Began: The Silent Era | |
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| Cataloguing of Existing Concert Music | |
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| Masters Transcribed for Film | |
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| The Role of Music in Sound Films | |
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| Film Music Comes of Age | |
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| The Hollywood Sound | |
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| The Contribution of Music to Film | |
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| Movie Music of the Golden Age | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Film Music | |
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| Some of the Great Film Composers of the Golden Age | |
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| The Next Generation of Composers | |
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| Music and the Magic of Animation | |
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| Matching Music and Pictures | |
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| The Stature of Movie Music Today | |
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| Listening Insights: What to Listen for in Film Music | |
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| Contributions of World Cultures | |
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| Non-Western Influences in Western Art Music | |
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| Music South of the Sahara | |
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| Listening Activity: "If it Comes to Fighting with Guns" Ewe People of West Africa | |
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| Music of India | |
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| Music of Japan | |
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| Listening Activity: Japan (Gagaku): Netori (prelude) & "Etenraku in Hyojo" | |
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| Listening Activity: Japan: Kabuki Nagauta Music from the Play Pojoji | |
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| Finale: Audience Power in the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Beyond Survival | |
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| Listening Activity: Finale: Host, Martin Bookspan | |
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| Basic Music Notation | |
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| Common Scales in Music | |
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| Writing Reports | |
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| Music Listening Checklist | |
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| Listening Resources: Expand Your Expertise | |
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| Challenge Your Expertise Answers | |
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| Guide to the Recordings | |
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| Glossary of Musical Terms | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |