Ebook: The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening

Part 1. Materials of music. Prelude 1. Listening to music today -- Chapter 1. Melody: musical line -- chapter 2. Rhythm and meter: musical time -- chapter 3. Harmony: musical space -- chapter 4. The organization of musical sounds -- chapter 5. Musical texture -- chapter 6. Musical form -- chapter 7. Musical expression: tempo and dynamics -- chapter 8. Voices and musical instrument families -- chapter 9. Western musical instruments -- chapter 10. Musical ensembles -- chapter 11. Style and function of music in society -- Part 2. Medieval and renaissance music. Prelude 2. The culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance music. -- Chapter 12. Sacred music in the Middle Ages -- chapter 13. Secular music in the Middle Ages -- chapter 14. Renaissance sacred music -- chapter 15. Renaissance secular music -- Part 3. The Baroque era. -- Prelude 3. The Baroque spirit. -- Chapter 16. Baroque opera and its components -- chapter 17. The Baroque cantata and oratorio -- chapter 18. Baroque instruments and the suite -- chapter 19. The Baroque concerto -- chapter 20. Other Baroque instrumental music -- Part 4. Eighteenth-century classicism. Prelude 4. Classicism in the arts. -- Chapter 21. The development of classical forms -- chapter 22. Classical chamber music -- chapter 23. The classical symphony -- chapter 24. The classical concerto -- chapter 25. The sonata in the classical era -- chapter 26. Classical choral music and opera -- Part 5. The nineteenth century. Prelude 5. The spirit of romanticism. -- Chapter 27. Song in the romantic era -- chapter 28. Romantic piano music -- chapter 29. Music in ninteenth-century America -- chapter 30. Romantic program music -- chapter 31. Absolute music in the nineteenth century -- chapter 32. National schools of romantic opera -- chapter 33. Late romantic and post-romantic music -- Part 6. Impressionism and the early twentieth century. Prelude 6. Modernism in the arts. -- Chapter 34. Impressionism and post-impressionism -- chapter 35. Early modern musical style -- chapter 36. Music of the early modernists -- chapter 37. European national schools -- chapter 38. American modernism in music -- chapter 39. Nationalism in the Americas -- Part. 7. Music beyond the concert hall. Prelude 7. The rise of American popular styles. -- Chapter 40. Ragtime, blues, and jazz -- chapter 41. Musical theater -- chapter 42. Music for films -- chapter 43. The many voices of rock -- Part 8. World War II and beyond. Prelude 8. New directions in the arts. -- chapter 44. The new virtuosity of the modern age -- chapter 45. Contemporary composers look to world music -- chapter 46. Technology and music -- chapter 47. Some current trends.