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Prelude Listening to Music Today
1 Melody: Musical Line
2 Rhythm and Meter: Musical Time
3 Harmony: Musical Space
4 The Organization of Musical Sounds
5 Musical Texture
6 Musical Form
7 Musical Expression: Tempo and Dynamics
8 Voices and Musical Instrument Families
9 Western Musical Instruments
10 Musical Ensembles
11 Style and Function of Music in Society
12 The Culture of the Middle Ages
13 Medieval Music
14 The Renaissance Spirit
15 Renaissance Sacred Music
16 Renaissance Secular Music
17 The Baroque Spirit
18 Vocal Music of the Baroque
19 Orchestral Music of the Baroque
20 Baroque Keyboard Music
21 The Classical Spirit
22 The Development of Classical Forms
23 The Classical Symphony
24 The Classical Concerto and Sonata
25 Classical Opera
26 The Spirit of Romanticism
27 The Romantic Miniature
28 Romantic Program Music
29 Romantic Opera
30 The Late Romantics
31 America's Emerging Musical Voice
32 The Impressionist Era
33 Main Currents in Early-Twentieth-Century Music
34 Early-Twentieth-Century Innovators
35 Nationalism and Music
36 Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz
37 New Directions
38 Contemporary Composers Look to World Music
39 Music for the Stage and Screen
40 The Many Voices of Rock
41 Some Current Trends

The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening Edition

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Amazing Grace (traditional hymn, United Kingdom)
America (traditional, patriotic song)
Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Iran)

Bach, J. S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, I
Bach, J. S.: Contrapunctus I, from The Art of Fugue
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (original)
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (inversion)
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (retrograde)
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (retrograde inversion)
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (augmentation)
Bach, J. S.: The Art of Fugue, theme (diminution)
Bach, J. S.: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach, J. S.: Sarabande, from Cello Suite No. 2
Bach, J. S.: Toccata in D minor
Battle Hymn of the Republic (traditional, Civil War song)
Beethoven: Für Elise
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Adagio
Beethoven: Ode to Joy, from Symphony No. 9, IV
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, I
Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story
Bhimpalási (North India, Ravi Shankar)
Bizet: Toreador Song, from Carmen
Brahms: Lullaby

Catán: Interlude, from Rappaccini's Daughter
El Cihualteco (Mexico, mariachi song)

Dougla Dance (Trinidad)

Foster: Camptown Races
Foster: Oh, Susannah!

Gota (Ghana, West Africa)
Greensleeves (traditional folk song, United Kingdom)

Handel: Alla hornpipe, from Water Music
Handel: "Hallelujah Chorus," from Messiah
Haydn: Emperor Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3, II
Haydn: Military Symphony No. 100, II
Haydn: Surprise Symphony No. 94, II
Hildegard of Bingen: Kyrie

If I Had a Hammer (Pete Seeger)
In a Mountain Path (China)

Los Jilicatas (Peru)
Joplin: Pine Apple Rag
Josquin: El grillo
Joy to the World (Christmas carol)

La Marseillaise (French national anthem)
Mbira (Zimbabwe)
Mendelssohn: Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6
Minuet in D minor (Anna Magdalena Notebook)
Mouret: Rondeau, from Suite de symphonies
Mozart: Ah! vous dirai-je, maman (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, II
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, I
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, III
Mozart: Symphony No. 40, III
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean (traditional folk song, America)

O Canada (Canadian national anthem)
Osain (Cuba, Santería)

Pachelbel: Canon in D
Pop Goes the Weasel (traditional, United Kingdom)
Purcell: Rondeau

Reicha: Woodwind Quintet, Op. 88, No. 2
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Row, Row, Row Your Boat (traditional, America)

Schumann: "In the lovely month of May"
Simple Gifts (traditional, Shaker hymn)
Skye Crofters (bagpipe, Scottish dance music)
Sleep Song (Hopi lullaby, Native America)
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
The Star-Spangled Banner (U.S. national anthem)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (African-American spiritual)

Tabuh Kenilu Sawik (Sumatra, Indonesia)
Tchaikovsky: March, from The Nutcracker

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
When the Saints Go Marching In (traditional, America)

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