PART I Materials of Music Prelude 1: Listening to Music Today Melody: Musical Line Rhythm and Meter: Musical Time Harmony: Musical Space The Organization of Musical Sounds Musical Texture Music Form Musical Expression: Tempo and Dynamics Voices and Musical Instrument Families Western Musical Instruments Musical Ensembles Style and Function of Music in Society PART 2 Medieval and Renaissance Music Prelude 2: The Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Sacred Music of the Middle Ages Secular Music of the Middle Ages Renaissance Sacred Music Renaissance Secular Music PART 3 The Baroque Era Prelude 3: The Baroque Spirit Baroque Opera and Its Components The Baroque Cantata and Oratorio Baroque Instruments and the Suite The Baroque Concerto Other Baroque Instrumental Music PART 4 Eighteenth-Century Classicism Prelude 4: Classicism in the Arts The Development of Classical Forms Classical Chamber Music The Classical Symphony The Classical Concerto The Sonata in the Classical Era Classical Choral Music and Opera PART 5 The Nineteenth Century Prelude 5: The Spirit of Romaticism Song in the Romantic Era Romantic Piano Music Music in Nineteenth-Century America Romantic Program Music Absolute Music in the Nineteenth Century National Schools of Romantic Opera Late Romantic and Post-Romantic Music PART 6 Impressionism and the Early Twentieth Century Prelude 6: Modernism in the Arts Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Early Modern Musical Style Music of the Early Modernists European National Schools American Modernism in Music Nationalism in the Americas PART 7 Music Beyond the Concert Hall Prelude 7: The Rise of American Popular Styles Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz Musical Theater Music for Films The Many Voices of Rock PART 8 World War II and Beyond Prelude 8: New Directions in the Arts The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age Contemporary Composers Look to World Music Technology and Music Some Current Trends.