Do you feel that you connect more with music with an evocative title (e.g. Night on Bald Mountain) compared to music with a more categorial title (e.g. Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement)? Why or why not?
What does an evocative title allow you as the listener to do while listening?
Read selections from pages 130 to 160
Beyonce (2016)
Franz Schubert (1823)
Franz Schubert (1815)
Bobbie Gentry (1967)
Read selections from pages 170 to 211
Hector Berlioz (1830)
Modest Mussorgsky (1874, orch. Ravel, 1922)
Peng Xiuwen (late 20th century)
Ravi Shankar (1999)