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| Brief Table of Contents | |
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| The Medieval Era | |
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| Plainchant and Secular Monophony | |
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| Polyphony to 1300 | |
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| Music in the 14th Century | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| The Emergence of Renaissance Style | |
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| The Genres of Renaissance Music, 1420-1520 | |
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| Music in the 16th Century | |
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| The Baroque Era | |
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| The New Practice | |
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| Vocal Music, 1600-1650 | |
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| Vocal Music, 1650-1750 | |
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| Instrumental Music, 1600-1750 | |
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| The Classical Era | |
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| The Art of the Natural | |
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| Instrumental Music in the Classical Era | |
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| Vocal Music in the Classical Era Major Composers of the Classical Era | |
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| The 19th Century | |
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| The Age of the Tone Poet | |
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| Orchestral Music, 1800-1850 | |
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| Piano Music, Chamber Music, Song | |
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| Dramatic and Choral Music | |
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| Orchestral Music, 1850-1900 | |
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| The 20th Century | |
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| The Growth of Pluralism | |
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| The Search for New Sounds, 1890-1945 | |
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| Beyond Tonality | |
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| The Tonal Tradition | |
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| New Currents after 1945 | |
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| Popular Music | |
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| The Medieval Era | |
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| Plainchant and Secular Monophony | |
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| The Emergence of Plainchant | |
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| The Elements of Plainchant | |
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| The Expansion of Plainchant | |
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| Secular Monophony | |
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| Polyphony to 1300 | |
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| Organum | |
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| Mensural Notation | |
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| Music in the 14th Century | |
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| France: The Arts Nova | |
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| Italy: The Trecento | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| The Emergence of Renaissance Style | |
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| Consonance and Dissonance: Trusting the Eat | |
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| Sonority: The Contenance Angloise | |
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| Josquin's Ave Maria…Virgo Serena and the Style of the Renaissance | |
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| The Genres of Renaissance Music, 1420-1520 | |
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| Sacred Vocal Music | |
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| Secular Vocal Music | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| Music in the 16th Century | |
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| Sacred Vocal Music | |
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| Secular Vocal Music | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| The Baroque Era | |
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| The New Practice | |
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| Searching for the Secretes of Ancient Greek Music | |
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| The Florentine Camerata | |
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| The Seconda Prattica | |
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| Music in the Baroque Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
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| Vocal Music, 1600-1650 | |
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| Secular Song | |
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| Opera | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Vocal Music, 1650-1750 | |
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| Opera | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Conceptions Of The Compositional Process | |
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| Instrumental Music, 1600-1750 | |
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| Instruments of The Baroque Era | |
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| Instrumental Genres of The Baroque Era | |
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| The Classical Era | |
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| The Art of the Natural | |
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| Music and The Idea of Nature | |
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| Music in The Classical Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
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| Style and Form in The Mid-18<sup>th</sup> Century | |
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| Instrumental Music in the Classical Era | |
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| The Language of Instrumental Music | |
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| Form and Genre in Instrumental Music | |
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| Vocal Music in the Classical Era Major Composers of the Classical Era | |
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| The Rise of Opera Buffa | |
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| Opera Wars | |
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| Gluck and The Reform of Opera | |
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| Mozart and The Synthesis of Operatic Styles | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Song | |
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| The 19th Century | |
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| The Age of the Tone Poet | |
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| Romanticism and The New Prestige of instrumental Music | |
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| The Composer As High Priest | |
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| Originality and Historical Self-Consciousness | |
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| The New Dichotomy Between Absolute and Program | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| The Growing Division Between Art and Popular Music | |
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| Music in The 19th Century: A Stylistic | |
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| Orchestral Music, 1800-1850 | |
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| Bigger Halls, Bigger Audiences, and Louder Instruments | |
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| The Symphony | |
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| The Concert Overture | |
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| The Concerto | |
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| Piano Music, Chamber Music, Song | |
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| Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets | |
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| Song | |
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| The Character Piece | |
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| The Virtuoso Showpiece | |
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| Dramatic and Choral Music | |
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| Opera | |
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| Operetta | |
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| Choral Music | |
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| Orchestral Music, 1850-1900 | |
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| Music For Dancing And Marching | |
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| The Ballet | |
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| The Symphonic Poem | |
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| The Symphony | |
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| Major Composers of the 19th Century | |
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| The 20th Century | |
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| The Growth of Pluralism | |
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| From Homogeneity to Diversity | |
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| The Past Confronts The Present | |
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| Recorded Versus Live Music | |
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| Authenticity | |
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| Music in 20th-Century Society | |
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| The Search for New Sounds, 1890-1945 | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Challenges to Tonality | |
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| Radical Primitivism | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| New Timbres | |
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| Beyond Tonality | |
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| Atonality | |
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| Serial Composition | |
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| The Tonal Tradition | |
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| Neoclassicism and The "New Objectivity" | |
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| Orchestral Music | |
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| Film Music | |
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| Ballet | |
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| Chamber Music | |
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| Opera and Musical Theater | |
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| New Currents after 1945 | |
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| New Sounds from Old Instruments | |
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| Combinatoriality | |
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| Integral Serialism | |
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| Aleatory Music | |
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| Electronic Music | |
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| Minimalism | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Popular Music | |
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| Hymnody and its Legacy | |
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| Ragtime and Blues | |
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| Popular Song | |
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| Jazz: To 1945 | |
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| Jazz: After 1945 | |
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| Country Music | |
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| The Folk Revival | |
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| Rhythm & Blues, Rock, and Rap | |
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| Major Composers of the 20th Century | |