Table of Contents

Introduction to listening; introduction to the elements of music; music as the measure of time; music as the measure of space; music as the measure of dynamics; musical timbre; music as the measure of harmony; form - order in music; song - the union of music and text; introduction to three levels of music - art, folk and elite; the Medieval period; the Renaissance period; the Baroque period; the classical period; the romantic period; the modern period; music and the world; the worlds of popular music.

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