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Understanding Music - Past and Present

Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.

MusicHumanities
Author
Clark, Heflin, Kluball, & Kramer
Publisher
University System of Georgia
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
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Contents· 83 sections
  1. 01: Music Fundamentals
  2. 1.01: What is Music
  3. 1.02: Performing Forces for Music
  4. 1.03: Music Notation
  5. 1.04: New Recording Technologies
  6. 1.05: Melody
  7. 1.06: Harmony
  8. 1.07: Rhythm
  9. 1.08: Texture
  10. 1.09: Putting it All Together
  11. 1.10: Chapter Summary
  12. 1.11: Key Terms and Individuals
  13. 1.12: Glossary
  14. 02: Music of the Middle Ages
  15. 2.01: Introduction and Historical Context
  16. 2.02: Music in the Middle Ages- An Overview
  17. 2.03: Music for Medieval Christian Worship
  18. 2.04: Music in Medieval Courts
  19. 2.05: Chapter Summary
  20. 2.06: Glossary
  21. 03: Music of the Renaissance
  22. 3.01: Introduction and Historical Context
  23. 3.02: Music of the Renaissance
  24. 3.03: Worship Music
  25. 3.04: Secular Music - Entertainment Music of the Renaissance
  26. 3.05: Chapter Summary
  27. 3.06: Glossary
  28. 04: Music of the Baroque Period
  29. 4.01: Introduction and Historical Context
  30. 4.02: Music in the Baroque Period
  31. 4.03: Birth of Opera
  32. 4.04: New Music for Instruments
  33. 4.05: Music of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
  34. 4.06: Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  35. 4.07: Chapter Summary
  36. 4.08: Key Terms and Individuals
  37. 4.09: Glossary
  38. 05: Music of the Classical Period
  39. 5.01: Introduction and Historical Context
  40. 5.02: Music in the Classical period
  41. 5.03: Music of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
  42. 5.04: Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  43. 5.05: Music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
  44. 5.06: Chapter Summary
  45. 5.07: Glossary
  46. 06: Nineteenth-Century Music and Romanticism
  47. 6.01: Introduction and Historical Context
  48. 6.02: Music in the Nineteenth Century
  49. 6.03: Music of Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
  50. 6.04: Music of the Mendelssohns
  51. 6.05: Music of the Schumanns
  52. 6.06: Music of Fryderyk Chopin
  53. 6.07: Music of Franz Liszt
  54. 6.08: Music of Hector Berlioz
  55. 6.09: Music of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  56. 6.10: Music of Nationalism
  57. 6.11: Music of Bedrich Smetana
  58. 6.12: Music of Antonin Dvorak
  59. 6.13: Music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  60. 6.14: Music of John Philip Sousa
  61. 6.15: Music of Guiseppe Verdi
  62. 6.16: Music of Richard Wagner
  63. 6.17: Chapter Summary
  64. 6.18: Glossary
  65. 07: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
  66. 7.01: Introduction and Historical Context- 1900 to today
  67. 7.02: Expressionism and Serialism
  68. 7.03: Primitivism in Music
  69. 7.04: Neoclassicism
  70. 7.05: Minimalism
  71. 7.06: The American Style
  72. 7.07: The Late Twentieth Century
  73. 7.08: Chapter Summary
  74. 7.09: Glossary
  75. 08: Popular Music in the United States
  76. 8.01: Introduction to Popular Music in the United States
  77. 8.02: Early American Popular Music Or Not
  78. 8.03: The Rs- Rock Rhythm and Blues and Rap
  79. 8.04: Folk Music
  80. 8.05: Country Music
  81. 8.06: Music for the Stage
  82. 8.07: Chapter Summary
  83. 8.08: Glossary