Chapters

1. Introduction to Music

2. The Elements of Music

3. History I: From Antiquity through the Renaissance

4. History II: From the Baroque through the Enlightenment

5. History III: From 19th Century Romanticism to the Present Day

Modules

Absolute and Program Music

Chamber Music

Jazz and Popular Styles

Keyboard Music

Large Instrumental Ensembles

Nationalism and Cultural Identity

Opera

Song

The Current Age of Eclecticism

The Symphony and Orchestral Genres

The Viennese School: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

Vocal Ensembles

20^th Century Innovatory: Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky