The Enjoyment of Music

by Joseph Machlis; Kristine Forney

ISBN13: 9780393966435

ISBN10: 0393966437

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1995-04-01

Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc

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Listening Guides	p. xvii
Cultural Perspectives	p. xix
Preface to the Seventh Edition	p. xxi
Prelude: Listening to Music Today	p. 1
The Materials of Music	p. 5
The Elements of Music
Melody: Musical Line	p. 7
Rhythm: Musical Time	p. 12
Harmony: Musical Space	p. 17
Musical Texture	p. 21
Musical Form	p. 25
Tempo and Dynamics	p. 30
Musical Instruments and Ensembles
Musical Instruments I	p. 33
Musical Instruments II	p. 36
Musical Ensembles	p. 48
Style and Function of Music in Society	p. 57
Hearing Musical Styles	p. 59
Medieval and Renaissance Music	p. 61
The Middle Ages
The Culture of the Middle Ages	p. 63
Sacred Music and Religious Drama in the Middle Ages	p. 67
Secular Music in the Middle Ages	p. 80
The Renaissance
The Renaissance Spirit	p. 93
Renaissance Sacred Music	p. 100
Renaissance Secular Music	p. 109
From Renaissance to Baroque	p. 122
More Materials of Music	p. 127
The Organization of Musical Sounds
Musical Systems	p. 129
Aspects of the Major-Minor System	p. 135
The Baroque Era	p. 139
The Baroque and the Arts
The Baroque Spirit	p. 141
Main Currents in Baroque Music	p. 147
Vocal Music of the Baroque
Baroque Opera	p. 153
Bach and the Baroque Cantata	p. 163
Handel and the Baroque Oratorio	p. 173
Instrumental Music of the Baroque
The Baroque Concerto	p. 181
The Baroque Suite	p. 191
Other Baroque Instrumental Forms	p. 197
To the Age of Enlightenment	p. 204
More Materials of Form	p. 213
Focus on Form
The Development of Musical Ideas	p. 215
The Sonata Cycle	p. 218
Eighteenth-Century Classicism	p. 225
The Classical Spirit
Classicism in the Arts	p. 227
Classicism in Music	p. 231
Classical Chamber Music
Eighteenth-Century Chamber Music Style	p. 235
Mozart and Classical Chamber Music	p. 239
The Classical Symphony
The Nature of the Symphony	p. 247
Haydn and the Classical Symphony	p. 251
Beethoven and the Symphony in Transition	p. 258
The Eighteenth-Century Concerto and Sonata
The Classical Concerto	p. 268
The Classical Sonata	p. 276
Choral Music and Opera in the Classical Era
Sacred Choral Music	p. 282
Classical Opera	p. 286
From Classicism to Romanticism	p. 298
The Nineteenth Century	p. 305
The Romantic Movement
The Spirit of Romanticism	p. 307
Romanticism in Music	p. 309
The Nineteenth-Century Art Song
The Romantic Song	p. 315
Schubert and the Lied	p. 319
Brahms as a Lied Composer	p. 324
The Nineteenth-Century Piano Piece
The Piano in the Nineteenth Century	p. 328
Chopin and Nineteenth-Century Piano Music	p. 329
Franz Liszt and the Rise of the Performer/Composer	p. 336
Clara Schumann: Nineteenth-Century Pianist and Composer	p. 341
Romantic Program Music
The Nature of Program Music	p. 346
Berlioz and the Program Symphony	p. 348
The Rise of Musical Nationalism	p. 353
Absolute Forms in the Nineteenth Century
The Romantic Symphony	p. 361
Dvorak as a Symphonist	p. 365
The Romantic Concerto	p. 371
Robert Schumann and the Romantic Concerto	p. 373
Choral and Dramatic Music in the Nineteenth Century
The Nature of Romantic Choral Music	p. 378
Romantic Opera	p. 382
Verdi and Italian Opera	p. 385
Wagner and the Music Drama	p. 394
Exoticism in Romantic Opera	p. 403
Late Romantic Opera	p. 413
Tchaikovsky and the Ballet	p. 416
The Twentieth Century	p. 423
The Post-Romantic Era	p. 425
The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Eras
Claude Debussy and Impressionism	p. 438
Ravel and Post-Impressionism	p. 450
The Early Twentieth Century
Main Currents in Early Twentieth-Century Music	p. 457
New Elements of Musical Style	p. 461
Stravinsky and the Revitalization of Rhythm	p. 465
Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School	p. 474
Berg and Early Twentieth-Century Opera	p. 481
Webern and Serial Technique	p. 487
The Nationalism of the Twentieth Century
The European Scene	p. 491
The American Scene: Art Music	p. 505
Popular Styles
Blues and Early Jazz	p. 522
Musical Theater and Jazz	p. 531
Rock and the Global Scene	p. 542
The New Music
New Directions	p. 557
New Sounds on Traditional Instruments	p. 566
Modern Composers and Non-Western Styles	p. 576
Technology and Music	p. 585
Other Recent Trends	p. 595
Coda	p. 607
Appendices
Musical Notation	p. 609
Glossary	p. 614
About the Listening Guides	p. 625
Attending Concerts	p. 628
Chronological List of Composers, etc.	p. 633
Index	p. 645
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