Music, an appreciation

Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color

Performing media : voices and instruments

Rhythm

Music notation

Melody

Harmony

Key

Musical texture

Musical form

Performance

Musical style

Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450)

Gregorian chant

Secular music in the Middle Ages

The development of polyphony : organum

Fourteenth-century music : the "new art" in Italy and France

Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)

Sacred music in the Renaissance

Secular music in the Renaissance

The Venetian school : from Renaissance to Baroque

Baroque music (1600-1750)

Music in Baroque society

The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello form

The fugue

The elements of opera

Opera in the Baroque era

Claudio Monteverdi

Henry Purcell

The Baroque sonata

Arcangelo Corelli

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Baroque suite

The chorale and church cantata

The oratorio

George Frideric Handel

The Classical style (1750-1820)

Composer, patron, and public in the Classical period

Sonata form

Theme and variations

Minuet and trio

Rondo

The classical symphony

The classical concerto

Classical chamber music

Joseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

Romanticism in music (1820-1900)

Romantic composers and their public

The art song

Franz Schubert

Robert Schumann

Clara Wieck Schumann

Frédéric Chopin

Franz Liszt

Felix Mendelssohn

Program music

Hector Berlioz

Nationalism in nineteenth-century music

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Bedřich Smetana

Antonin Dvořak

Johannes Brahms

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Gustav Mahler

Musical styles : 1900-1945

Music and musicians in society

Impressionism and symbolism

Claude Debussy

Maurice Ravel

Neoclassicism

Igor Stravinsky

Expressionism

Arnold Schoenberg

Alban Berg

Anton Webern

Béla Bartók

Dmitri Shostakovich

Charles Ives

George Gershwin

William Grant Still

Aaron Copland

Music since 1945 : nine representative pieces

Jazz styles : 1900-1950

Ragtime

Blues

New Orleans style

Swing

Bebop

Jazz styles since 1950

Musical theater

Leonard Bernstein

Music in film

Rock styles

Rock in American society

The Beatles

Music in nonwestern cultures

Music in sub-Saharan Africa

Classical music of India

Koto music of Japan.

Part I Elements

Part II The Middle Ages and Renaissance

Part III The Baroque Period

Part IV The Classical Period

Part V The Romantic Period

Part VI The Twentieth Century

Part VII Nonwestern music.

Elements. Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color ; Performing media : voices and instruments ; Rhythm ; Music notation ; Melody ; Harmony ; Key ; Musical texture ; Musical form ; Performance ; Musical style

The Middle Ages. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) ; Gregorian chant ; Secular music in the Middle Ages ; The development of polyphony : organum ; Fourteenth-century music : the "new art" in Italy and France

The Renaissance. Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) ; Sacred music in the Renaissance ; Secular music in the Renaissance ; The Venetian school : from Renaissance to Baroque

The Baroque period. Baroque music (1600-1750) ; Music in Baroque society ; The concerto grosso and ritornello form ; The fugue ; The elements of opera ; Opera in the Baroque era ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Henry Purcell ; The Baroque sonata ; Arcangelo Corelli ; Antonio Vivaldi ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; The Baroque suite ; The chorale and church cantata ; The oratorio ; George Frideric Handel

The Classical period. The Classical style (1750-1820) ; Composer, patron, and public in the Classical period ; Sonata form ; Theme and variations ; Minuet and trio ; Rondo ; The classical symphony ; The classical concerto ; Classical chamber music ; Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven

The Romantic period. Romanticism in music (1820-1900) ; Romantic composers and their public ; The art song ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Clara Wieck Schumann ; Frédéric Chopin ; Franz Liszt ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Program music ; Hector Berlioz ; Nationalism in nineteenth-century music ; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Bedřich Smetana ; Antonin Dvořak ; Johannes Brahms ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Giacomo Puccini ; Richard Wagner ; Gustav Mahler

The twentieth century and beyond. Musical styles : 1900-1945 ; Music and musicians in society ; Impressionism and symbolism ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Neoclassicism ; Igor Stravinsky ; Expressionism ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Anton Webern ; Béla Bartók ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Charles Ives ; George Gershwin ; William Grant Still ; Aaron Copland ; Alberto Ginastera ; Musical styles since 1945 ; Music since 1945 : eight representative pieces

Jazz. Jazz styles : 1900-1950 ; Ragtime ; Blues ; New Orleans style ; Swing ; Bebop ; Jazz styles since 1950

Music for stage and screen. Musical theater ; Leonard Bernstein ; Music in film

Rock. Rock styles ; Rock in American society ; The Beatles

Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures ; Music in sub-Saharan Africa ; Classical music of India ; Koto music of Japan.

Accompanying CD 1. Lohengrin. Prelude to act III / Wagner

Prelude in c minor for piano, op. 28, no. 20 / Chopin

Firebird. Scene 2 / Stravinsky

C jam blues / Ellington

The young person's guide to the orchestra / Britten

The stars and stripes forever / Sousa

I got rhythm / Gershwin

Unsquare dance / Brubeck

Over the rainbow / Arlen

Prelude in e minor for piano / Chopin

L'Arlésienne suite, no. 2. Farandole / Bizet

Nutcracker. Dance of the reed pipes / Tchaikovsky

Suite in e minor for lute. Bourrée / Bach

Alleluia : vidimus stellam / anon.

O successores / Hildegard von Bingen

Estampie / anon.

Alleluia : nativitas = The birth / Perotin

Ecco la primavera / Landini

Puis qu'en oubli ; Notre Dame mass. Agnus dei / Machaut

Ave Maria, virgo serena / Josquin

Pope Marcellus mass. Kyrie / Palestrina

As vesta was descending / Weelkes

Flow my tears / Dowland.

Accompanying CD 2. Terpsichore. Passamezo ; Galliard / Caroubel

Plaudite / Gabrieli

Concerto no. 5 in D major : Brandenburg. I-III ; Organ fugue in g minor / Bach

Orfeo. Tu se' morta / Monteverdi

Dido's lament / Purcell

Trio sonata in a minor, op. 3, no. 10. I-II / Corelli

The four seasons. La primavera. I-III / Vivaldi

The well-tempered clavier, book 1. Prelude and fugue in c minor ; Suite no. 3 in D major, S. 1068. Air ; Bourrée ; Gigue ; Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. I, IV, VII / Bach.

Accompanying CD 3. Messiah. Sinfonia ; Comfort ye ; Ev'ry valley shall be exalted ; For unto us a child is born ; Hallelujah chorus / Handel

Symphony no. 40 in g minor / Mozart

Symphony no. 94 in G major : surprise. I-II / Haydn

Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart

String quartet in c minor, op. 18, no. 4 / Beethoven

Trumpet concerto in E-flat major / Haydn.

Accompanying CD 4. Don Giovanni. Madamina ; Là ci darem la mano ; Piano concerto no. 23 in A major ; Requiem in d minor. Dies irae / Mozart

Piano sonata in c minor, op. 13 : pathétique ; Symphony no. 5 / Beethoven.

Accompanying CD 5. Erlkönig ; Die Forelle ; Piano quintet in A major : trout / Schubert

Carnaval. Chiarina ; Chopin ; Estrella ; Reconnaissance (Reunion) / R. Schumann

Romance in e-flat minor, op. 11, no. 1 / C.W. Schumann

Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 ; Étude in c minor, op. 10, no. 12 : revolutionary ; Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53 / Chopin

Transcendental étude no. 10 in f minor / Liszt

Concerto for violin and orchestra in e minor / Mendelssohn

Symphonie fantastique. IV, March to the scaffold ; V, Dream of a witches' sabbath / Berlioz

Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky-Ravel.

Accompanying CD 6. Romeo and Juliet. Overture-fantasy / Tchaikovsky

The Moldau / Smetana

Symphony no. 9 in e minor : from the new world / Dvorák

Symphony no. 3 in F major ; A German requiem. How lovely is Thy dwelling place / Brahms

Rigoletto / Verdi.

Accompanying CD 7. La Bohème. Excerpt from Act I / Puccini

Die Walküre. Act I. Love scene, conclusion / Wagner

Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld / Mahler

Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune ; Voiles / Debussy

Bolero / Ravel

Le sacre du printemps. Introduction, Omens of spring, Dances of the youths and maidens, Ritual of abduction, Sacrificial dance ; Symphony of psalms. First movement / Stravinsky.

Accompanying CD 8. Pierrot lunaire = Moonstruck Pierrot ; A survivor from Warsaw / Schoenberg

Wozzeck. Act III. Scenes 4-5 / Berg

Five pieces for orchestra. Third piece / Webern

Concerto for orchestra. I-II / Bartók

Symphony no. 5 in d minor. II / Shostakovich

Putnam's camp, Redding, Connecticut / Ives

Afro-American symphony. Third movement / Still

Rhapsody in blue / Gershwin

Appalachian spring. Theme and variations on Simple gifts / Copland

Estancia suite, op. 8. Malambo / Ginastera.

Accompanying CD 9. Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano. Sonata II / Cage

Poème électronique = Electronic poem / Varèse

Threnody : to the victims of Hiroshima / Penderecki

From where do you come, my love, my child? / Crumb

Einstein on the beach. Knee-play I / Glass

Concerto grosso 1985 / Zwilich

Short ride in a fast machine / Adams

Shard / Carter

Maple leaf rag / Joplin

Lost your head blues / Smith

Dippermouth blues / Oliver

Hotter than that / Armstrong

Ko ko / Parker

Miles runs the voodoo down / Davis

West side story. America ; Tonight / Bernstein

Ompeh / trad.

Mitamba yalagala kumchuzi / anon.

Maru-bihag / Shankar

Godan binuta / Mitsuzaki Kengyo.