Title: Music: a design for listening.
Authors: Ulrich, Homer,
Date: 1970
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & World,
Physical description: xi, 476 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: I. Elements and forms : 1. Selective listening and the musical experience -- 2. The materials of music : Tone characteristics ; Melody ; Characteristics of melody ; Rhythm, meter, and tempo -- 3. Tonal arrangements : Scales ; Intervals ; Chords ; Harmony -- 4. Musical instruments : String instruments ; Wind instruments ; Percussion instruments ; Independent instruments ; Tone quality -- 5. The structure of music : Organizing principles ; Larger formal units ; Single-movement forms ; Compound forms ; Thematic and nonthematic material -- 6. Interpretation : Clarification of the form ; The interpreter's problems -- 7. Musical performance and history : The Renaissance period (1450-1600) ; The Baroque period (1600-1750) ; The Classical period (1750-1825) ; The Romantic period (1825-1900) ; The Contemporary period (1900- ) II. The traditional repertoire : 8. The classical period : The Rococo subperiod ; Musical forms of the classical period ; Haydn ; Mozart ; Classicism -- 9. Beethoven : Beethoven's life ; Beethoven's music -- 10. The Early Romantic period : Schubert ; Weber ; The Romantic Period ; Berlioz ; Chopin ; Mendelssohn ; Schumann -- 11. Program music and the nationalists : The Symphonic poem ; Liszt ; Smetana ; Grieg ; Russian nationalist composers ; Tchaikovsky -- 12. Opera : Grand opera ; Lyric opera ; Italian opera ; Verdi ; Wagner ; Post-Romantic opera -- 13. The late Romantic period : Brahms ; Dvorak ; Frank -- 14. At the turn of the century : Post-Romantic music ; Impressionism III. The older music : 15. The Renaissance period : The Renaissance ; The Medieval heritage (1300-1450) ; Modes in the Renaissance period ; Renaissance forms and practices ; Josquin des Prez ; Palestrina ; The Elizabethan school -- 16. The Baroque period : Basso Continuo and the opera ; Early Italian opera ; Early French opera ; Neapolitan opera ; Instrumental music ; Choral music ; Vivaldi -- 17. Handel and Bach : Handel ; Bach IV. The Twentieth Century : 18. Contemporary music : The new music ; Music after the second world war ; A change of scene -- 19. Jazz and its idiom : the origins of jazz ; The characteristics of jazz ; Schools of jazz -- 20. Music of the United States : Musical developments to 1920 ; New influences after 1920 ; Music today ; Experimental music.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music appreciation.; Music--History and criticism.