Understanding Music - Past and Present

by Clark, Heflin, Kluball, & Kramer

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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.

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Publisher
University System of Georgia
Subjects
Humanities, Music
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. About the Authors
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Music Fundamentals
  8. 1.1: What is Music?
  9. 1.2: Performing Forces for Music
  10. 1.3: Music Notation
  11. 1.4: New Recording Technologies
  12. 1.5: Melody
  13. 1.6: Harmony
  14. 1.7: Rhythm
  15. 1.8: Texture
  16. 1.9: Putting it All Together
  17. 1.10: Chapter Summary
  18. 1.11: Key Terms and Individuals
  19. 1.12: Glossary
  20. 2: Music of the Middle Ages
  21. 2.1: Introduction and Historical Context
  22. 2.2: Music in the Middle Ages- An Overview
  23. 2.3: Music for Medieval Christian Worship
  24. 2.4: Music in Medieval Courts
  25. 2.5: Chapter Summary
  26. 2.6: Glossary
  27. 3: Music of the Renaissance
  28. 3.1: Introduction and Historical Context
  29. 3.2: Music of the Renaissance
  30. 3.3: Worship Music
  31. 3.4: Secular Music - Entertainment Music of the Renaissance
  32. 3.5: Chapter Summary
  33. 3.6: Glossary
  34. 4: Music of the Baroque Period
  35. 4.1: Introduction and Historical Context
  36. 4.2: Music in the Baroque Period
  37. 4.3: Birth of Opera
  38. 4.4: New Music for Instruments
  39. 4.5: Music of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
  40. 4.6: Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  41. 4.7: Chapter Summary
  42. 4.8: Key Terms and Individuals
  43. 4.9: Glossary
  44. 5: Music of the Classical Period
  45. 5.1: Introduction and Historical Context
  46. 5.2: Music in the Classical period
  47. 5.3: Music of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
  48. 5.4: Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  49. 5.5: Music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
  50. 5.6: Chapter Summary
  51. 5.7: Glossary
  52. 6: Nineteenth-Century Music and Romanticism
  53. 6.1: Introduction and Historical Context
  54. 6.2: Music in the Nineteenth Century
  55. 6.3: Music of Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
  56. 6.4: Music of the Mendelssohns
  57. 6.5: Music of the Schumanns
  58. 6.6: Music of Fryderyk Chopin
  59. 6.7: Music of Franz Liszt
  60. 6.8: Music of Hector Berlioz
  61. 6.9: Music of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  62. 6.10: Music of Nationalism
  63. 6.11: Music of Bedřich Smetana
  64. 6.12: Music of Antonín Dvořák
  65. 6.13: Music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  66. 6.14: Music of John Philip Sousa
  67. 6.15: Music of Guiseppe Verdi
  68. 6.16: Music of Richard Wagner
  69. 6.17: Chapter Summary
  70. 6.18: Glossary
  71. 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
  72. 7.1: Introduction and Historical Context- 1900 to today
  73. 7.2: Expressionism and Serialism
  74. 7.3: Primitivism in Music
  75. 7.4: Neoclassicism
  76. 7.5: Minimalism
  77. 7.6: The American Style
  78. 7.7: The Late Twentieth Century
  79. 7.8: Chapter Summary
  80. 7.9: Glossary
  81. 8: Popular Music in the United States
  82. 8.1: Introduction to Popular Music in the United States
  83. 8.2: Early American Popular Music – Or Not!
  84. 8.3: The R’s- Rock, Rhythm and Blues and Rap
  85. 8.4: Folk Music
  86. 8.5: Country Music
  87. 8.6: Music for the Stage
  88. 8.7: Chapter Summary
  89. 8.8: Glossary
  90. Back Matter
  91. Appendix
  92. 1.1: Introduction
  93. 1.2: Important Terms
  94. 1.3: North America
  95. 1.4: European Folk Music
  96. 1.5: Asian Music
  97. 1.6: South and Central American Folk Music
  98. 1.7: Carribean Pop Music
  99. 1.8: African Folk Music
  100. 1.9: Glossary
  101. Index
  102. Glossary
  103. Detailed Licensing