Chapter Ⅰ About Music

Unit 1 What Is Music

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Section A Harmony

Section B Variation

Unit 2 Does Music Possess"Secret Power"?

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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

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Section A Baroque Spirit and Baroque Music Performance

Section B General Characteristics of the Baroque Music

Unit 2 Johann Sebastian Bach

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Section A Johann Sebastian Bach,Father of Music

Section B Antonio Vivaldi

Unit 3 George Frideric Handel

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Section A The Glorious History of Handel's Messiah

Section B Henry Purcell

Chapter Ⅲ The Classical Period

Unit 1 Music of the Classical Period

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Section A Haydn and Mozart

Section B John Field

Unit 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Section B Carl Czerny,The Forefather of Pianoforte Technic

Unit 3 Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Section A Felix Mendelssohn,Singer of the Songs Without Words

Section B Tchaikovsky,His Life and Music

Chapter Ⅳ The Romantie Period

Unit 1 Romanticism

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Section A The Parallel Lives of Verdi and Wagner

Section B Johannes Brahms

Unit 2 Happy Birthday,Frédéric Chopin!

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Section A The Super Power of Franz Liszt

Section B Robert Schumann

Unit 3 Gustav Mahler:Tragic life,Lavish Music

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Section A Claude Debussy

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

Chapter Ⅴ The 20th Century

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

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Section A Listening to the Twentieth Century

Section B Arnold Schoenberg

Unit 2 Bela Bartok

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Section A Giacomo Puccini

Section B George Gershwin

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

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

Section B John Williams—Composer Extraordinaire

Chapter Ⅵ Conductors

Unit 1 Toscanini:The Titan

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Section A Herbert Van Karajan,A God Among Conductors

Section B A Personal Reminiscence

Unit 2 Wilhelm Furtwangler

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Section A Eugene Ormandy

Section B Claudio Abbado

Unit 3 Leonard Bernstein:a Born Teacher

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Section A The Passion and Pain of Bernard Haitink

Section B Erich Kunzel,"Prince of Pops"

Chapter Ⅶ Performers

Unit 1 Yehudi Menuhin

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Section A Glenn Gould,Weird and Wondrous

Section B Arthur Rubinstein,the Artist

Unit 2 Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project

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Section A Louis Armstrong:A Cultural Legacy

Section B Jascha Heifetz:The Violinist of the Century

Unit 3 The Three Tenors

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Section A Vladimir Horowitz,The Famous Supreme Pianist

Section B Maria Callas:Voice of Perfect Imperfection