Exploring music - Hickok, Robert (Madison, Wisconsin WCB Brown & Benchmark Publishers, 1993)
pt. 1. Fundamentals of music -- 1. Musical sound -- Pitch -- Duration -- Volume (Dynamics) -- Timbre (Tone color) -- Summary -- New terms -- 2. Musical elements -- Melody -- Harmony -- Tonality (Key) -- Rhythm -- Levels of time -- Summary -- New terms -- 3. Musical organization -- Musical texture -- Musical form -- Musical style -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 4. Musical instruments and ensembles -- Voices -- Strings -- Woodwinds -- Brasses -- Percussion instruments -- Keyboard instruments -- Electronic instruments -- Ensembles -- Summary -- New terms -- pt. 2. The music of world cultures -- 5. The music of world cultures : an introduction -- Some preliminary comments -- Musical elements in non-Western music -- Examples of traditional and folk music -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 3. Medieval and Renaissance music -- prelude I. The culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- 6. Medieval and Renaissance music -- Early sacred music -- Medieval secular music -- Polyphony and measured rhythm -- Renaissance sacred music -- Renaissance secular music -- Renaissance instrumental music -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 4. Music of the Baroque Era -- prelude II. The triumph of the Baroque style -- 7. Baroque vocal music -- The new music -- Baroque vocal styles -- Opera -- Secular cantata -- Oratorio -- Biography : Handel -- Handel's work -- Lutheran Germany -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 8. Baroque instrumental music -- Keyboard music -- Fugue -- Biography : Bach -- Bach's work -- Suite -- Baroque sonata -- Concerto -- Listening guide : Bach : Brandenburg concerto no. 5 -- Listening guide : Vivaldi : Le quattro stagione (The four seasons) : Spring -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 5. Music of the Classical Era -- prelude III. The classical era : reason and revolution -- 9. Mozart and Haydn -- The classical sonata -- Pianoforte -- The classical orchestra -- Biography : Mozart -- Mozart's work -- Biography : Haydn -- Chamber music -- Haydn's work -- The classical concerto -- Listening guide : Mozart : symphony no. 40 in G minor -- Listening guide : Haydn : string quartet, op. 33, no.3 ("The bird") -- Listening guide : Mozart : piano concerto in B-flat major (K. 595) -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening --10. Classical vocal music -- Choral music of Haydn -- Opera -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 11. The music of Beethoven -- Beethoven's work -- Biography : Beethoven -- Elements of Beethoven's style -- Compositions for piano -- Listening guide : Beethoven : symphony no. 5 in C minor -- LIstening guide : Beethoven : piano sonata, op. 57 ("Appassionata") -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 6. Music of the Romantic Era -- prelude IV. The arts of the Romantic Era -- 12. Song and piano music -- Romantic innovations -- Art song -- Biography : Schubert -- Schubert's work -- Piano music -- Franz Liszt (1811-1886) -- Biography : Robert and Clara Wieck Schumann -- Biography : Chopin -- Chopin's work -- Listening guide : Chopin : ballade no. 1 in G minor -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 13. The romantic traditionalists -- The romantic symphony -- Biography : Brahms -- Brahms's work -- Other romantic symphonists -- The romantic concerto -- Biography : Mendelssohn -- Mendelssohn's work -- Concert overture -- Biography : Tchaikovsky -- Tchaikovsky's work -- LIstening guide : Brahms : symphony no. 2 in D major -- LIstening guide : Mendelssohn : violin concerto in E minor -- Listening guide : Tchaikovsky : Romeo and Juliet overture -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 14. Program music -- Biography : Berlioz -- Berlioz's work -- Franz Liszt -- Richard Strauss -- Listening guide : Berlioz : symphonie fantastique -- Listening guide : Liszt : les prludes -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 15. Nationalism -- Russia -- Biography : Mussorgsky -- Mussorgsky's work -- Nationalism in other countries -- Biography : Smetana -- Smetana's work -- Biography : Dvok -- Dvok's work -- Listening guide -- Smetana : (Vltava) The moldau -- Listening guide : Dvok : symphony no. 9 in E minor ("From the new world") -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 16. Romantic opera and choral music -- French opera -- Biography : Bizet -- Italian opera -- Biography : Verdi -- Verdi's work -- The verismo movement -- Biography : Puccini -- Puccini's work -- German opera -- Biography : Wagner -- Wagner's work -- Choral music -- Brahms -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 7. Music of the early twentieth century -- prelude V. The genesis of the Modern Era -- 17. Bridging the gap between centuries -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Biography : Debussy -- Debussy's work -- Maurice Ravel -- Other trends in the early twentieth century -- Listening guide : Debussy : prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 18. Toward the modern period -- Distinguishing feature of twentieth-century music -- Neoclassicism -- Biography : Stravinsky -- Stravinsky's work -- Biography : Bartk -- Bartk's work -- Benjamin Britten -- Paul Hindemith -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Dmitri Shostakovitch -- Listening guide : Stravinsky : le scare du printemps -- Listening guide : Bartk : music for strings, percussion, and celesta -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- 19. Serialism -- Schoenberg's work -- Biography : Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton von Webern -- Elizabeth Lutyens -- Listening guide : Webern : symphonie, op. 21 -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 8. Music in America -- prelude VI. American culture before World War II -- 20. American music before World War II -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The early twentieth century -- Biography : Ives -- Ives's work -- The music of Black Americans -- George Gershwin -- Aaron Copland -- The experimenters -- Listening guide : still : Afro-American symphony -- Listening guide : Gershwin : rhapsody in blue -- Listening guide : Copland : Appalachian spring -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 9. Music of the late twentieth century -- prelude VII. Art and architecture since 1945 -- 21. Music in the second half of the twentieth century -- Total serialism -- Chance music (Indeterminacy) -- Electronic music -- Minimalism -- Diversity of style -- Listening guide : Zwilich : symphony no. I -- Summary -- New terms -- Suggested listening -- pt. 10. Pop culture in American music -- 22. Jazz and rock -- The origins of jazz -- The blues -- Biography : Billie Holiday -- Ragtime -- Jazz -- Biography : Louis Armstrong -- The Depression Years -- Swing -- Bop -- Post bebop -- Rock -- The seventies -- The eighties -- Television -- Summary -- New Terms -- Suggested listening.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-542) and index.
Keywords: Music appreciation