Preface: To the Instructor
Introduction: To the Student
Music and History
Listening
Unit I Fundamentals
Listening
Prelude: An Orchestral Prelude by Richard Wagner
Listening Chart 1 Wagner, Prelude to The Valkyrie
Chapter 1 Music, Sound, and Time
1 Sound Vibrations
2 Dynamics (Amplitude)
Listening Exercise 1 Pitch and Dynamics
3 Tone Color: Overtones
4 Duration
Chapter 2 Rhythm and Pitch
1 Rhythm
Listening Exercise 2 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
Listening Exercise 3 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
2 Pitch
Interlude A: Musical Notation
Chapter 3 The Structures of Music
1 Melody
Box: Characteristics of Tunes
Listening Exercise 4 Melody and Tune
2 Harmony
3 Texture
Listening Exercise 5 Texture
4 Tonality and Modality
Listening Exercise 6 Mode and Key
Interlude B: Musical Instruments
Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style
1 Form in Music
Listening Exercise 7 Musical Form
2 Musical Style
Listening Chart 2 Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Unit II Early Music: An Overview
Chapter 5 The Middle Ages
1 Music and the Church: Plainchant
Plainchant, Preface for Mass on Whit Sunday, "Vere dignum"
"In paradisum" Plainchant and Gregorian Antiphon
Hildegard of Bingen, Plainchant Sequence, "Columba aspexit"
2 Music at Court
Box: How Did Early Music Sound?
Troubadour song, "La dousa votz" Bernart de Ventadorn
3 The Evolution of Polyphony
"Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" P茫脗(c)rotin and Organum