Chapter 1: Elements of Sound and Music
Elements of Sound: Frequency, Amplitude, Wave Form, Duration
Elements of Music: Rhythm, Meter, Pitch, Melody, Texture, Tone Color, Form
Chapter 2: Musical Instruments and Ensembles
Instruments: A World View
Human Voice as Instrument
Western Categories of Instruments
Ensembles
Chapter 3: Composer, Performer, Audience
Chapter 4: European Art Music: Middle Ages through Romantic
Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque
Classical Romantic
Chapter 5: European and American Art Music since 1900
Chapter 6: American Vernacular Music
Introduction
American Folk Music Anglo American Ballads
African American Spirituals and Gospel Music
The Blues Rock and Roll Rap
Chapter 7: Jazz
Characteristic Features
Brief History
Chapter 8: World Music
Selected World Cultures and Repertories
Africa India Indonesia
China The Caribbean South America
Jewish Klezmer Music
Appendix 1: Musician Biographies
Anderson Armstrong Bach
Bartok Beethoven Bernstein
Cage Chopin Coltrane
Copland Davis Dvorak
Dylan Ellington Gershwin
Gillespie Handel Hardin
Haydn Ives Joplin
Josquin des Prez King (B. B.) Mingus
Monk (Meredith) Monk (Thelonious) Mozart
Parker Piazzolla Presley
Puccini Reich Schoenberg
Schubert Schumann (Clara) Seeger (Pete)
Seeger (Ruth) Shankar Smith
Stravinsky Varèse Verdi
Vivaldi
Appendix 2: GlossaryAppendix 2: Glossary
