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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
CHAPTER 1: Understanding and Listening to Music
CHAPTER 2: A Mad Dash Through the Roots of Western Music
CHAPTER 3: The Music of the Medieval Church
CHAPTER 4: A Necessary and Invigorating Excursion into the Worlds of Music Theory and Terminology
CHAPTER 5: Emotional Exuberance and Intellectual Control: The Paradox of Baroque Art
CHAPTER 6: Play It, Don’t Say It: The Rise of Instrumental Music
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)
CHAPTER 8: Fugue It!
CHAPTER 9: Opera: The Baroque Expressive Revolution in Action
CHAPTER 10: Opera Goes to Church
CHAPTER 11: A New Liturgy Comes of Age: Lutheran Baroque Sacred Music
CHAPTER 12: Instrumental Form in Baroque Era Music
CHAPTER 13: Baroque Era Musical Genres
CHAPTER 14: Enlightened Is as Enlightened Does: An Introduction to the Classical Era
CHAPTER 15: Putting It All Together: Classical Era Musical Form, Part One
CHAPTER 16: Classical Era Musical Form, Part Two
CHAPTER 17: Classical Era Orchestral Genres, Part One
CHAPTER 18: Classical Era Orchestral Genres, Part Two
CHAPTER 19: Send in the Buffone: Opera in the Classical Era
CHAPTER 20: A Revolutionary Artist for a Revolutionary Time: Ludwig van Beethoven
CHAPTER 21: Beethoven’s Compositional Innovations: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Innovate
CHAPTER 22: Isn’t It Romantic?: The Music of the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 23: Structural Problems: Formal Challenges in Early Romantic Music
CHAPTER 24: Going Beyond Beethoven: Hector Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique and the Program Symphony
CHAPTER 25: Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera: Rossini and Bel Canto
CHAPTER 26: Giuseppe Verdi: It’s All About the People— Dramatic Truth in Italian Opera
CHAPTER 27: Nineteenth-Century German Opera: Von Weber and Wagner, Nationalism and Experimentation
CHAPTER 28: Of Thee I Sing: Musical Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 29: Romantic Nationalism, Russian Style
CHAPTER 30: A Modern Music for a Modern World
CHAPTER 31: Revolutions, Evolutions, and “-isms” Galore: The Making of a New Music in the Early Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 32: From Russia with Rhythm: Igor Stravinsky
CHAPTER 33: No Waltz in the Park: Arnold Schoenberg’s Vienna and Expressionism
POSTLUDE
Music Selections
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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