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By way of introduction -- Music and life: the sources of musical imagery -- Melody: musical line -- Harmony: musical space -- Rhythm: musical time -- Tempo: musical pace -- Dynamic: musical volume -- Instruments of the orchestra -- The orchestra -- Form: musical structure and design -- Musical style -- Musical notation -- The Romantic movement -- Romanticism in music -- The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Frédéric Francois Chopin -- The nature of program music -- Mendelssohn: A Midsummer night's dream -- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique -- Liszt: Les préludes -- Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet -- Nationalism and the Romantic movement -- The symphony -- Dvorák: New world symphony -- The concerto -- Two Romantic concertos -- The nature of opera -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Richard Wagner -- Three Romantic operas -- The organization of musical sounds: key and scale -- The major-minor system -- The development of themes: musical logic -- The sonata: the first movement -- The sonata, continued: the other movements -- The classical spirit -- Classicism in music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Classical chamber music -- From classical to Romantic: Schubert's Unfinished -- Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- The Baroque -- Main currents in Baroque music -- Two seventeenth-century composers -- Baroque instrumental music --

Johann Sebastian Bach -- George Frideric Handel -- From Baroque to classical -- Transition to a new age -- Mahler: Symphony no. 4 -- Impressionism -- Claude Debussy -- Postromantic composers -- Main currents in twentieth-century music -- New elements of style -- New conceptions of tonality -- Igor Stravinsky -- Béla Bartók -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Between the wars -- The past -- Emergence of the modern American school -- American composers -- American jazz / Martin Williams -- New directions -- Composers of our time.