Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Understanding and Listening to Music 1
Chapter 2 A Mad Dash Through the Roots of Western Music 7
Chapter 3 The Music of the Medieval Church 13
Chapter 4 A Necessary and Invigorating Excursion into the Worlds of Music Theory and Terminology 30
Chapter 5 Emotional Exuberance and Intellectual Control: The Paradox of Baroque Art 36
Chapter 6 Play It, Don't Say It: The Rise of Instrumental Music 45
Chapter 7 National Styles: Italy and Germany (or Why German Music Will Never Hit Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie and Italian Music Will Never Go from Best to Wurst] 54
Chapter 8 Fugue It! 63
Chapter 9 Opera: The Baroque Expressive Revolution in Action 69
Chapter 10 Opera Goes to Church 79
Chapter 11 A New Liturgy Comes of Age: Lutheran Baroque Sacred Music 88
Chapter 12 Instrumental Form in Baroque Era Music 96
Chapter 13 Baroque Era Musical Genres 102
Chapter 14 Enlightened Is as Enlightened Does: An Introduction to the Classical Era 111
Chapter 15 Putting It All Together: Classical Era Musical Form, Part One 124
Chapter 16 Classical Era Musical Form, Part Two 137
Chapter 17 Classical Era Orchestral Genres, Part One 146
Chapter 18 Classical Era Orchestral Genres, Part Two 156
Chapter 19 Send in the Buffone: Opera in the Classical Era 166
Chapter 20 A Revolutionary Artist for a Revolutionary Time: Ludwig van Beethoven 177
Chapter 21 Beethoven's Compositional Innovations: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Innovate 186
Chapter 22 Isn't It Romantic?: The Music of the Nineteenth Century 197
Chapter 23 Structural Problems: Formal Challenges in Early Romantic Music 205
Chapter 24 Going Beyond Beethoven: Hector Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and the Program Symphony 215
Chapter 25 Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Rossini Bel Canto 228
Chapter 26 Giuseppe Verdi: It's All About the People-Dramatic Truth in Italian Opera 234
Chapter 27 Nineteenth-Century German Opera: Von Weber and Wagner, Nationalism and Experimentation 241
Chapter 28 Of Thee I Sing: Musical Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century 255
Chapter 29 Romantic Nationalism, Russian Style 264
Chapter 30 A Modern Music for a Modern World 271
Chapter 31 Revolutions, Evolutions, and "-isms" Galore: The Making of a New Music in the Early Twentieth Century 280
Chapter 32 From Russia with Rhythm: Igor Stravinsky 288
Chapter 33 No Waltz in the Park: Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna and Expressionism 295
Postlude 305
Music Selections 309
Glossary 315
Bibliography 323
Index 325
