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Unit 1: Music as a Field of Practice and Study
Chapter 1: Music in Human Life
Chapter 2: The Elements of Music
Unit 2: Music for Storytelling
Chapter 3: Music and Characterization
John Williams: Star Wars
Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Ragtime and Dixieland Jazz
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 4: Sung and Danced Drama
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Hamilton
Claudio Monteverdi: Orpheus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute
Tian Han: The Tale of the White Snake
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Javanese Traditional: The Love Dance of Klana Sewandana
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 5: Song
Beyoncé: Lemonade
Franz Schubert: The Lovely Maid of the Mill
"Pretty Polly"
Franz Schubert: "Elf King"
Bobbie Gentry: "Ode to Billie Joe"
Ancient Greece: The Iliad
West Africa: The Sunjata Story
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 6: Stories without Words
Hector Berlioz: Fantastical Symphony
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, "Spring"
Chinese Solo Repertoire: Attack on All Sides and Spring River
Catherine Likhuta: Lesions
Anoushka Shankar: Raga Madhuvanti
Resources for Further Learning
Unit 3: Music for Entertainment
Chapter 7: Listening at Public Concerts
1808: A Concert by Ludwig van Beethoven
1924: An Experiment in Modern Music
1933: A Century of Progress
1969: An Aquarian Exposition
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 8: Listening at Home and at Court
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Countess of Dia: "I Must Sing"
Tanburi Cemil Bey: “Samâi Shad Araban”
John Dowland: "Flow, My Tears"
Barbara Strozzi: My Tears
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2 "The Joke"
Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor
Resources for Further Learning
Unit 4: Music for Political Expression
Chapter 9: National Identity
United States of America: The Star-Spangled Banner
Germany: "The Song of the Germans"
South Africa: "National Anthem of South Africa"
Israel: "The Hope"
Contesting the Representation of Hungary
Contesting the Representation of the United States
Steelband Music of Trinidad and Tobago
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 10: Support and Protest
Music as Political Advocacy
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Music as Political Protest
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Resources for Further Learning
Unit 5: Functional Music
Chapter 11: Music for Spiritual Expression
Hildegard of Bingen: "O Strength of Wisdom"
Giovanni da Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G minor and Sleepers, Wake
John Newton: "Amazing Grace"
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Resources for Further Learning
Chapter 12: Music for Moving
John Philip Sousa: "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Scottish Traditional: "Scotland the Brave"
Dance Music in the United States
Dance Music in Concert Settings
Resources for Further Learning
Unit 6: Evaluating Music
Chapter 13: What is Good Music?
1945 Pulitzer Prize: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring
1965 Pulitzer Prize: The Duke Ellington controversy
1997 Pulitzer Prize: Wynton Marsalis, Blood on the Fields
2013 Pulitzer Prize: Caroline Shaw, Partita for 8 Voices
2018 Pulitzer Prize: Kendrick Lamar, DAMN
Alarm Will Sound
Yo-Yo Ma
Conclusion
Resources for Further Learning
Appendices
Appendix A: Instruments of the Orchestra
Appendix B: Western Art Music
Appendix C: Definition of Terms
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Unit 1
Music as a Field of Practice and Study
Chapter 1: Music in Human Life
Chapter 2: The Elements of Music
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