Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unit I. Fundamentals
  • Rhythm, meter, and tempo
  • Pitch, dynamics, and tone color
  • Scales and melody
  • Harmony, texture, tonality, and mode
  • Musical form and musical style
  • Unit II. Early music : An overview
  • The middle ages
  • The renaissance
  • The early baroque period
  • Unit III. The eighteenth century
  • The late baroque period
  • Baroque instrumental music
  • Baroque vocal music
  • Music and the enlightenment
  • The symphony
  • Other classical genres
  • Unit IV. The nineteenth century
  • Beethoven
  • Music after Beethoven : Romanticism
  • The early romantics
  • Romantic opera
  • The late romantics
  • Unit V. The twentieth century and beyond
  • Music and modernism
  • Early modernism
  • Modernism between the wars
  • The late twentieth century
  • Music in America : Jazz and beyond.