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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Full 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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Full Table Of Contents: | |
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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 | |