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Chapter Ⅰ About Music 1

Unit 1 What Is Music 1

Further Reading 5

Section A Harmony 5

Section B Variation 7

Unit 2 Does Music Possess"Secret Power"? 9

Further Reading 15

Section A The Cultural Acoustics of Chinese Musical Instruments 15

Section B Instruments of the Orchestra＆Chamber Music 18

Unit 3 Music of Ancient Greece 20

Further Reading 27

Section A A Brief Introduction to Traditional Chinese Classical Music 27

Section B Music and Art of China 30

Chapter Ⅱ The Baroque Period 34

Unit 1 A Brief History of Baroque Music 34

Further Reading 42

Section A Baroque Spirit and Baroque Music Performance 42

Section B General Characteristics of the Baroque Music 50

Unit 2 Johann Sebastian Bach 54

Further Reading 62

Section A Johann Sebastian Bach,Father of Music 62

Section B Antonio Vivaldi 64

Unit 3 George Frideric Handel 70

Further Reading 74

Section A The Glorious History of Handel's Messiah 74

Section B Henry Purcell 78

Chapter Ⅲ The Classical Period 83

Unit 1 Music of the Classical Period 83

Further Reading 89

Section A Haydn and Mozart 89

Section B John Field 95

Unit 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 99

Further Reading 107

Section A Symphony with Final Chorus on Schiller's"Ode to Joy" 107

Section B Carl Czerny,The Forefather of Pianoforte Technic 112

Unit 3 Ludwig Van Beethoven 118

Further Reading 122

Section A Felix Mendelssohn,Singer of the Songs Without Words 122

Section B Tchaikovsky,His Life and Music 125

Chapter Ⅳ The Romantie Period 129

Unit 1 Romanticism 129

Further Reading 141

Section A The Parallel Lives of Verdi and Wagner 141

Section B Johannes Brahms 149

Unit 2 Happy Birthday,Frédéric Chopin! 156

Further Reading 163

Section A The Super Power of Franz Liszt 163

Section B Robert Schumann 169

Unit 3 Gustav Mahler:Tragic life,Lavish Music 175

Further Reading 187

Section A Claude Debussy 187

Section B Antonin Dvorak Symphony No.9("From the New World") 195

Chapter Ⅴ The 20th Century 200

Unit 1 What Silence Taught John Cage:The Story of 4′33″ 200

Further Reading 212

Section A Listening to the Twentieth Century 212

Section B Arnold Schoenberg 218

Unit 2 Bela Bartok 224

Further Reading 230

Section A Giacomo Puccini 230

Section B George Gershwin 240

Unit 3 How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 246

Further Reading 251

Section A Tradition,the Avant-garde,and Individuality in the Music of Olivier Messiaen 251

Section B John Williams—Composer Extraordinaire 261

Chapter Ⅵ Conductors 266

Unit 1 Toscanini:The Titan 266

Further Reading 273

Section A Herbert Van Karajan,A God Among Conductors 273

Section B A Personal Reminiscence 277

Unit 2 Wilhelm Furtwangler 287

Further Reading 299

Section A Eugene Ormandy 299

Section B Claudio Abbado 303

Unit 3 Leonard Bernstein:a Born Teacher 307

Further Reading 315

Section A The Passion and Pain of Bernard Haitink 315

Section B Erich Kunzel,"Prince of Pops" 320

Chapter Ⅶ Performers 325

Unit 1 Yehudi Menuhin 325

Further Reading 332

Section A Glenn Gould,Weird and Wondrous 332

Section B Arthur Rubinstein,the Artist 337

Unit 2 Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project 343

Further Reading 349

Section A Louis Armstrong:A Cultural Legacy 349

Section B Jascha Heifetz:The Violinist of the Century 351

Unit 3 The Three Tenors 359

Further Reading 364

Section A Vladimir Horowitz,The Famous Supreme Pianist 364

Section B Maria Callas:Voice of Perfect Imperfection 370