Introduction - the elements of musical sound. Part 1 Preparation for an American music: North American Indian music, listening example 1 - Yeibichai chant song, listening example 2 - Sioux grass dance; the colonial period - listening example 3 - psalm tune, listening example 4 - ballad. Part 2 The first American music: revolution, listening example 5 - fife and drum, listening example 6 - revolutionary war song, listening example 7 - canon, listening example 8; a broadening music experience, listening example 9 - glass harmonica. Part 3 The romantic 19th century: a romantic young republic; of, by and for the people, listening example 10 - spiritual, listening example 11 - camp meeting spiritual, listening example 12; listening example 13 - folk song, listening example 14 - Spanish dance; the Civil War, listening example 15 - sentimental parlour ballad, listening example 16 - minstrel song, listening example 17 - minstrel song and dance; romantic virtuosos, listening example 18 - theme and variations; early concert music; American concert music comes of age, listening example 19 - fugue, listening example 20 - art song. Part 4 Growth of vernacular traditions: evolution of an American sound, listening example 21 - Civil War song, listening example 22 - march, listening example 23 - ragtime, listening example 24 - Tin Pan Alley song, listening example 25 - Cole Porter song; early jazz, listening example 26 - country blues, listening example 27 - urban blues, listening example 28 - New Orleans jazz, listening example 29 - boogie improvization, listening example 30 - stride piano, listening example 31 - big band swing; jazz since the forties, listening example 32 - bebop, listening example 33 - concert jazz, listening example 34 - progressive jazz. Part 5 Music for theatre and film: early musical theatre; evolution of the Broadway musical, listening example 35 - music theatre ensemble; music for films; American opera, listening example 36 - opera duet. Part 6 A wealth of vernacular musics: country music, listening example 37 - Jimmie Rodgers, listening example 38 - bluegrass, listening example 39 - western swing; Latin popular musics; rock and roll; the many moods of rock. Part 7 Music for the concert hall: experimental music - revolution, listening example 40 - Ives, original song based on a given tune, listening example 41 - Cowell, piano experiments, listening example 42 - Babbitt, concrete music, listening example 43 - Balinese Gamelan, listening example 44 - prepared piano; mainstream concert music - evolution, listening example 45 - Copland, fanfare, listening example 46 - music from the dance, listening example 47 - Harlem Renaissance composition, listening example 48 - abstract choral music.
