音乐英语文献选读

Chapter I About Musie

Unit 1 What ls 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 ofHandel’S Messiah

Section B Henry Purcell

Chapter IH The Classical Period

Unit 1 Music of the ClassicaI 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 Czemy,The Forefather of Pianoforte Technic

Unit 3 Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Section A Felix Mendelssohn，Singer ofthe 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 ofVerdi and Wagner

Section B Johannes Brahms

Unit 2 Happy Birthday．Fredetic 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 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”

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Section A Listening to the Twentieth Century

Section B Amold 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 Conduetors

Unit 1 Toscanini：The Titan

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Section A Herbert Van Karajan，A God Among Conductors

Section R 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-Y0 Ma and the Silk Road Project

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Section A Louis Armsong：A Cultural Legacy

Section B Jascha Heifetz：The Violinist ofthe Century

Unit 3 The Three Tenor

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Section A Vladimir Horowitz，The Famous Supreme Pianist

Section B Maria Callas：Voice of Perfect Imperfection

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