Chapter I About Musie
Unit 1 What ls Music
Further Reading
Section A Harmony
Section B Variation
Unit 2 Does Music Possess“Secret Power”
Further Reading
Section A The Cultural Acoustics of Chinese Musical Instruments
Section B Instruments of the Orchestra&Chamber Music
Unit 3 Music of Ancient Greece
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Section A A Brief Introduction to Traditional Chinese Classical Music
Section B Music and Art of China
Chapter II The Baroque Period
Unit 1 A Brief History of Baroque Music
Further Reading
Section A Baroque Spirit and Baroque Music Performance
Section B General Characteristics of the Baroque Music
Unit 2 Johann Sebastian Bach
Further Reading
Section A Johann Sebastian Bach，Father of Music
Section B Antonio Vivaldi
Unit 3 George Frideric Handel
Further Reading
Section A The Glorious History ofHandel’S Messiah
Section B Henry Purcell
Chapter IH The Classical Period
Unit 1 Music of the ClassicaI Period
Further Reading
Section A Haydn and Mozart
Section B John Field
Unit 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Further Reading
Section A Symphony with Final Chorus on Schiller’s Ode to Joy”
Section B Carl Czemy,The Forefather of Pianoforte Technic
Unit 3 Ludwig Van Beethoven
Further Reading
Section A Felix Mendelssohn，Singer ofthe Songs Without Words
Section B Tchaikovsky,His Life and Music
Chapter IV The Romantie Period
Unit 1 Romanticism
Further Reading
Section A The Parallel Lives ofVerdi and Wagner
Section B Johannes Brahms
Unit 2 Happy Birthday．Fredetic Chopin!
Further Reading
Section A The Super Power of Franz Liszt
Section B Robert Schumann
Unit 3 Gustav Mahler：Tragic life，Lavish Music
Further Reading
Section A Claude Debuss
Section B Antonin Dvorak Symphony No．9(“From the New Wodd”)
Chapter V The20Century
Unit 1 What Silence Taught John Cage：The Story of 4’33”
Further Reading
Section A Listening to the Twentieth Century
Section B Amold Schoenberg
Unit 2 Bela Bartok
Further Reading
Section A Giacomo Puccini
Section B George Gershwin
Unit 3 How Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music
Further Reading
Section A Tradition，the Avant-garde，and Individuality in the Music of Olivier
Messiaen
Section B John Williams---Composer Extraordinaire
Chapter VI Conduetors
Unit 1 Toscanini：The Titan
Further Reading
Section A Herbert Van Karajan，A God Among Conductors
Section R A Personal Reminiscence
Unit 2 Wilhelm Furtwangler
Further Reading
Section A Eugene Ormandy
Section B Claudio Abbado
Unit 3 Leonard Bernstein：a Born Teacher
Further Reading
Section A．The Passion and Pain of Bernard Haitink
Section B Erich Kunzel，“Prince of Pops”
Chapter VII Performers
Unit 1 Yehudi Menuhin
Further Reading
Section A Glenn Gould，Weird and Wondrous
Section B Arthur Rubinstein，the Artist
Unit 2 Yo-Y0 Ma and the Silk Road Project
Further Reading
Section A Louis Armsong：A Cultural Legacy
Section B Jascha Heifetz：The Violinist ofthe Century
Unit 3 The Three Tenor
Further Reading
Section A Vladimir Horowitz，The Famous Supreme Pianist
Section B Maria Callas：Voice of Perfect Imperfection