Part 1: The materials of music
Unit I: The elements of music
Prelude: Listening to music today
Rhythm and meter: musical time
Musical expression: tempo and dynamics
Unit II: Musical instruments and ensembles
Voices and musical instrument families
Western musical instruments
Style and function of music in society
Part 2: Medieval and Renaissance music
Timeline: Medieval/Renaissance era
Unit III: The Middle Ages
The culture of the Middle Ages
Sacred music in the Middle Ages
Secular music in the Middle Ages
Renaissance secular music
Transition I: From Renaissance to baroque
Part 3: More materials of music
Unit V: The organization of musical sounds
Unit VI: The Baroque and the arts
Main currents in baroque music
Unit VII: Vocal music of the baroque
Barbara Strozzi and the Italian cantata
Bach and the sacred cantata
Unit VIII: Instrumental music of the baroque
The baroque sonata and concerto
Other baroque instrumental forms
Transition II: To the age of enlightenment
Part 5: More materials of form
Unit IX: Expanded elements of form
The development of musical ideas
Part 6; Eighteenth-century classicism
Unit X: The classical spirit
Unit XI: Classical chamber music
Eighteenth-century chamber music style
Unit XII: The classical symphony
The nature of the symphony
Beethoven and the symphony in transition
Unit XIII: The eighteenth-century concerto and sonata
Unit XIV: Choral music and opear in the classical era
Sacred choral music and opera
Transition III: From classicism to romanticism
Part 7: The nineteenth century
Unit XV: The romantic movement
The spirit of romanticism
Unit XVI: Nineteenth-century art song
Robert Schumann and the song cycle
Unit XVII: The nineteenth-century piano piece
The piano and its literature
Clara Schumann: pianist and composer
Louis Gottschalk and piano music in America
Unit XVIII: Romantic program music
The nature of program music
Berlioz and the program symphony
Unit XIX: Absolute forms in the nineteenth century
Brahms and the late romantic symphony
The rise of classical composition in America
Unit XX: Choral and dramatic music in the nineteenth century
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and t he romantic part song
Wagner and the music drama
Puccini and late romantic opera
Tchaikovsky and the ballet
Part 8: The twentieth century and beyond
Timeline: Post-romanticism, impressionism, and early twentieth century
Transition IV: The post-romantic era
Unit XXI: The impressionist and post-impressionist eras
Debussy and impressionism
Unit XXII: The early twentieth century
Main currents in early twentieth-century music
New elements of musical style
Stravinsky and the revitalization of rhythm
Schoenberg and the second Viennese school
Unit XXIII: Twentieth-century nationalism
Béla Bartók and the European tradition
American musical traditions
Nationalism in the Americas: Aaron Copland and Silvestre Revueltas
Unit XXIV: Popular styles
Ragtime, blues, and early jazz
Rock and the global scene
Timeline: Later twentieth century and beyond
The new virtuosity of the modern age
Contemporary composers look to world music