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Music : a design for listening

Print Book, English, 1962
Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1962
Criticism, interpretation, etc
502 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Selective listening
Musical materials
Musical instruments
Tonal arrangements
Rhythm and meter
Melody and melodic types
Harmony
Organizing principles
Single-movement forms
Compound forms
Interpretation
Musical performance and history
The Renaissance period (1450-1600)
The Baroque period (1600-1750)
Handel and Bach
The Classical period (1750-1825)
Beethoven
The Early Romantic period
Program music and the nationalists
Nineteenth-century opera
The abstract ideal
Post-Romanticism and the new music
Jazz
American music