Includes index.; Includes online access code to receive streaming music corresponding with musical examples in the text, and premium website featuring active listening guides, iAudio lessons (downloadable MP3s), musical elements, musical forms and genres, interactive music timeline, musical styles quizzes, Britten's Young person's guide to the orchestra videos, videos demonstrating keyboard instruments, and checklist of musical styles; may also include access code for a multimedia eBook.
pt. I. Introduction to listening --; Listening to music --; Rhythm --; Melody --; Harmony --; Dynamics and color --; Musical texture and form --; Musical style --; pt. II. The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 476-1600 --; Medieval music, 476-1450 --; Renaissance music, 1450-1600 --; pt. III. The Baroque Period, 1600-1750 --; Introduction to Baroque art and music --; Early Baroque vocal music --; Toward late Baroque instrumental music --; The late Baroque: Bach --; The late Baroque: Handel --; pt. IV. The Classical Period, 1750-1820 --; Classical style --; Classical composers: Haydn and Mozart --; Classical forms: ternary and sonata-allegro --; Classical forms: theme and variations, rondo --; Classical genres: instrumental music --; Classical genres: vocal music --; Beethoven: bridge to Romanticism --; pt. V. Romanticism. 1820-1900 --; Introduction to Romanticism --; Romantic music: the art song --; Romantic music: program music and ballet --; Romantic music: piano music --; Romantic opera: Italy --; Romantic opera: Germany --; Nineteenth-century realistic opera --; Music and Nationalism --; Late Romantic orchestral music --; pt. VI. Modern and Postmodern art music, 1880-present --; Impressionism and Exoticism --; Modernism in music and the arts --; Early-twentieth-century Modernism --; Russian and Eastern European Modernism --; Three American voices --; Postmodernism. Vol. 1. Disc 1. Anonymous --; Bach. Disc 2. Bach --; Mozart. Disc 3. Beethoven --; Chopin. Vol. 2. Disc 1. Liszt --; Tchaikovsky. Disc 2. Mahler --; Ives. Disc 3. Copland --; People of Dagomba, Ghana.