Preface To the Instructor Text Outline Active Learning Using Classroom Instruments The Barred Instruments The Soprano Recorder Fingering Sequence Acknowledgements To the Student About the Author Chapter One Musical Essentials: Building Blocks ? Introduction ? Music and Its Meaning ? The Parameters of Sound ? The Elements of Music ? Learning to Listen ? Graphic Notation Chapter Two Rhythm: Feeling the Beat ? The Beat ? Tempo ? Notes and Rests ? Rhythmic Counting Chapter Three Rhythm: Keeping the Beat ? Meter ? Ostinato and Polyrhythm ? Dotted Rhythms ? Time Signature ? Syncopation and Backbeat ? Composing Rhythms Chapter Four Melody: The Sound of Music ? Treble Clef Pitches ? Bass Clef Pitches ? Pitch and the Piano Keyboard ? Accidentals Chapter Five Melody: Melodies and More ? Major and Minor Scales ? Chromatic Scales ? Key Signatures ? The Circle of Fifths ? Three Types of Minor Scales ? Melodic Key Identification ? Solfège Chapter Six Harmony and Texture: Unified Sounds ? Four Musical Textures ? Musical Intervals ? Intervals in Major Scales ? Altered Intervals ? Inverted Intervals ? Aural Recognition of Intervals ? Chords ? Chord Positions and Inversions ? Functional Harmony Chapter Seven Timbre, Dynamics, and Form: The Expressive Elements of Music ? Instrumental Timbres ? Vocal Timbres ? Keyboard Timbres ? Dynamic Factors ? Measuring, Indicating, and Expressing Dynamics ? The Form of Music ? Repetition in Music Chapter Eight Genre and Style in Music History ? Music in History ? Antiquity and The Middle Ages ? The Renaissance ? The Baroque Age ? The Classical Period ? The Romantic Era ? The Twentieth Century Chapter Nine World Music ? Music Around the World ? The Americas ? Cultural Focus: United States ? Cultural Focus: Argentina ? Europe ? Cultural Focus: Ireland ? Cultural Focus: Hungary ? Africa ? Cultural Focus: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ? Cultural Focus: Egypt ? Asia ? Cultural Focus: China ? Cultural Focus: Turkey ? Australia and Oceania ? Cultural Focus: Australia ? Cultural Focus: Solomon Islands Glossary/Index of Key Terms and Concepts Online Multimedia Guidelines ? Sequential Listing of Music Listening Selections ? Video Guidelines References Resources: Making More Music ? The Piano Keyboard ? Guidelines for Keyboard Playing ? Practice Keyboard ? Virtual Instruments ? The Soprano Recorder ? Guidelines for Recorder Playing ? Recorder Fingering Chart ? Recorder Music ? Folk Songs ? Online Music Theory Resources ? Blank Staff Paper.