PART ONE -- Elements -- Sound: pitch, dynamics, and tone color -- Performing media: voices and instruments -- Rhythm -- Music notation -- melody -- Harmony -- Key -- Musical texture -- Musical form -- Performance -- Musical style -- PART TWO -- The middle ages -- Music in the middle ages (450-1450) -- Gregorian chant -- Secular music in the middle ages -- The development of polyphony: organum -- Fourteenth-century music: the "new art" in italy and france -- PART THREE -- The renaissance -- Music in the renaissance -- Cacred music in the renaissance -- Secular music in the renaissance -- The venetian school: from renaissance to baroque -- PART FOUR -- The baroque period -- Baroque music (1600-1750) -- Music in baroque society -- The concerto grosso and ritornello form -- The fugue -- The elements of opera -- Opera in the baroque era -- Claudio monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The baroque sonata -- Arcangelo corelli -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The baroque suite -- The chorale and church cantana -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel -- PART FIVE -- The classical period -- The classical style (1750-1820) -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and variations -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven

1. Music appreciation