List of Boxes
Preface

Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music
1 Elements of Music: Sound, Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
2 Elements that Structure Music: Key, Texture, and Form
3 Musical Instruments and Ensembles

Prelude: The Culture of Medieval Europe
4 Medieval Music

Prelude: The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Humanism
5 Renaissance Music

Prelude: The Triumph of Baroque Style
6 Baroque Opera
7 Cantata
8 Oratorio
9 Baroque Solo and Chamber Music
10 The Baroque Orchestra

Prelude: The Classical Era: Reason and Revolution
11 The Classical Symphony
12 The Classical Concerto
13 Classical Chamber Music
14 Classical Vocal Music
15 The Music of Beethoven

Prelude: Music of the Romantic Era
16 Romantic Songs
17 Romantic Piano Music
18 Romantic Program Music
19 Nationalism in the Romantic Era
20 The Concert Overture
21 The Romantic Concerto
22 Romantic Choral Music
23 The Late Romantic Symphonies
24 Romantic Opera in France and Italy
25 Romantic German Opera

Prelude: The Early Twentieth Century
26 Impressionism and Symbolism
27 Primitivism and Neoclassicism
28 Eastern European Nationalism
29 Germanic Expressionism and the Development of Serialism

Prelude: American Innovations in the Arts
30 American Music Before World War II
31 Early Jazz Styles
32 Developments in Jazz in the Late Twentieth Century
33 American Classical Music Infl uenced by Early Jazz
34 Twentieth-Century American Classical Styles
35 Musical Theater
36 Film Music

Note: The chapter on Rock Music is available for free download in the Student Edition at www.mhhe/charltonexperience3e.

Prelude: New Ideas and Styles from Twentieth-Century Internationalism
37 World Musics
38 Post–World War II Innovations
39 Minimalism

Glossary
Credits
Performance Information for the 3-CD Set (Volume I)
Index

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