Inhalt
- SECTION I: A GUIDE TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
- Musical Notation and Pitch
- Duration of Notes and Rests (Also Meter)
- Key Signatures-Major and Minor Scales
- Form and Expression Marks
- Intervals and Two-Part Harmony
- Transposition
- Triads-Chords
- Chord Progressions
- Chord Building Chart
- Chromatic Fingering Chart (Guitar)
- SECTION II: A GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY
- The Pre-Renaissance Period (Before 1450)
- The Renaissance Period (1450 to 1600)
- Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524 to 1594)
- The Baroque Period (1600 to 1750)
- Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750)
- George Frederic Handel (1685 to 1759)
- The Classical Period (1750 to 1825)
- Some General Characteristics of Classical Music
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 to 1809)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 to 1791)
- Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
- The Romantic Period (1825 to 1900)
- Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music
- Franz Schubert (1797 to 1828)
- Felix Mandelssohn (1809 to 1847)
- Frederic Chopin (1810 to 1849)
- Johann Strauss Jr (1825 to 1899)
- Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886)
- Johannes Brahms (1833 to 1897)
- Peter Ditch Tschaikovsky (1840 to 1893)
- Anton Dvorak (1841 to 1904)
- The Impressionist Period (Approx 1885 to 1910)
- Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918)
- The Contemporary Period (1900 to Present)
- Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music
- George Gershwin (1898 to 1937)
- Aaron Copland (1900 to )
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975)
- Into the Next Centucy
- SECTION III: A MUSICAL DICTIONARY