Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition (Evergreen Release)

Preface 

PART I Elements 
1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color 
2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
3 Rhythm
4 Music Notation 
5 Melody 
6 Harmony 
7 Key
8 Musical Texture
9 Musical Form
10 Performance
11 Musical Style 

PART II The Middle Ages and Renaissance
1 Music in the Middle Ages (450–1450)
2 Music in the Renaissance (1450–1600)

PART III The Baroque Period
1 Baroque Music
2 Music in Baroque Society
3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
4 The Fugue
5 The Elements of Opera
6 Opera in the Baroque Era
7 Claudio Monteverdi
8 Henry Purcell
9 The Baroque Cantata
10 Barbara Strozzi
11 Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
12 The Baroque Sonata
13 Antonio Vivaldi
14 Johann Sebastian Bach 
15 The Baroque Suite 
16 The Chorale and Church Cantata 
17 The Oratorio 
18 George Frideric Handel

PART IV The Classical Period 
1 The Classical Style (1750–1820)
2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
3 Sonata Form 
4 Theme and Variations
5 Minuet and Trio 
6 Rondo 
7 The Classical Symphony
8 The Classical Concerto
9 Classical Chamber Music
10 Joseph Haydn
11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Ludwig van Beethoven

PART V The Romantic Period 
1 Romanticism in Music (1820–1900)
2 Romantic Composers and Their Public
3 The Art Song 
4 Franz Schubert
5 Robert Schumann
6 Clara Wieck Schumann
7 Frédéric Chopin
8 Franz Liszt
9 Felix Mendelssohn
10 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
11 Program Music
12 Hector Berlioz
13 Nationalism in Nineteenth- Century Music
14 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
15 Antonin Dvorák
16 Johannes Brahms
17 Georges Bizet
18 Giuseppe Verdi
19 Giacomo Puccini

PART VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond
1 Musical Styles: 1900–1945
2 Music and Musicians in Society since 1900
3 Impressionism and Symbolism
4 Claude Debussy
5 Maurice Ravel
6 Lili Boulanger
7 Primitivism
8 Igor Stravinsky
9 Neoclassicism
10 Sergei Prokofiev
11 Expressionism
12 Arnold Schoenberg
13 Alban Berg
14 Béla Bartók
15 Music in America
16 Charles Ives 
17 George Gershwin
18 William Grant Still
19 Aaron Copland
20 Alberto Ginastera
21 Musical Styles since 1945
22 Music since 1945: Ten Representative Pieces
23 Jazz 
24 Music for Stage and Screen25 Popular Music Genres

PART VII Nonwestern Music 
1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures 
2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa 
3 Classical Music of India 

Glossary
Index 

Endsheets