The enjoyment of music
Subtitle: an introduction to perceptive listening
By: Joseph Machlis.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Music -- Analysis, appreciation.
Notes: Bibliogrpahy: p. [667]-671. *** Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: The materials of music. By way of introduction -- Art as experience -- Melody : musical line -- Harmony : musical space -- Rhythm : musical time -- Tempo : musical pace -- Dynamics : musical volume -- Instruments of the orchestra (I) -- Instruments of the orchestra (II) -- The orchestra -- Form : musical structure and design -- Musical style -- Musical notation -- Nineteenth-Century Romanticism. The Romantic Movement -- Romanticism in music -- The short lyric forms as an expression of romanticism -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Frédéric Francois Chopin -- Other short lyric forms -- The nature of program music -- Mendelssohn : A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- Berlioz : Symphonie Fantastique -- Liszt : Les Preludes -- Tchaikovsky : Romeo and Juliet -- Strauss : Don Juan -- Nationalism and the romantic movement -- Nationalism in the symphonic poem -- The symphony -- Mendelssohn : Italian Symphony -- Dvorák : New World Symphony -- Brahms : Symphony No. 3 -- The concerto -- Mendelssohn : Violin Concerto -- Liszt : Piano Concerto No. 1 -- Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No.2 -- The nature of opera -- Verdi : La traviata -- Wagner : Tristan und Isolde -- Bizet : Carmen -- Musorgsky : Boris Godunov -- Puccini : La bohème -- The nature of choral music -- Verdi : Messa da Requiem -- More materials of music. 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 -- Eighteenth-Century Classicism. The classical spirit -- Classicism in music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Classical chamber music -- From classic to romantic : Schubert’s unfinished symphony --  Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. Harmony and counterpoint : musical texture -- The remote past -- The later middle ages -- The Renaissance -- Josquin des Prez -- Other sixteenth-century masters -- The baroque -- Main currents in baroque music -- Further aspects of baroque music -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- Vocal music of the baroque -- Baroque instrumental music -- Johann Sebastian Bach (instrumental music) -- Johann Sebastian Bach (vocal music) -- George Frideric Handel -- From baroque to classical -- Aftermath of the baroque : the rococo -- The Twentieth Century. Transition to a new age -- Mahler: Symphony No. 4 -- Impressionism -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Other post-romantic composers -- Main currents in Twentieth-Century music -- New elements of style -- New conceptions of tonality -- Igor Stravinsky -- Béla Bartók -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webem -- Other modern Europeans -- The American scene. The past -- The Nineteenth Century : emergence of an American school -- Twentieth-Century Americans (I) -- Charles Ives -- Edgard Varèse -- Twentieth-Century Americans (II) -- Twentieth-Century Americans (III) -- American jazz (by Martin Williams) -- Duke Ellington (by Martin Williams) -- The new music. New directions -- Composers of our time -- Postscript -- Appendices. I : Suggested reading -- II : Comparative ranges of voices and instruments -- III : Complete list of major and minor scales -- Chronological list of composers, world events, and principal figures in literature and the arts, 1300—1976 -- V : The harmonic series.