The Musical Experience

The Musical Experience is a seamlessly integrated enhanced learning package that features a thematic approach to music appreciation - each theme is described along a historical timeline.

Whether it is Music to Celebrate, Music from the Stage, or Music for Mourning, the reader will associate the music presented in The Musical Experience with a life moment - enhancing the experience!

To resonate with today's music appreciation students and instructors, John Chiego has updated The Musical Experience with contemporary examples of musical selections, musicals, and music from the movies since 2000.

To meet the evolving needs of music appreciation students and instructors, John Chiego has integrated::

• Features an easy-to-read conversational writing style that is suitable for students with diverse backgrounds and experience.
• Multiple delivery options! This complete course package with a print/eBook text and optional online music library and accompanying website supplements make it ideal for face-to-face, hybrid, and distance learning settings.
• Real-time assessments throughout! Biographical Spotlights, Listening Exercise questions, chapter question assignments, and What Makes Music features provide gradable components that can be completed by the reader on an ongoing basis throughout the semester.
• Includes Interactive Listening Charts that help readers with historical periods, genre, type of piece, and composer.
• Encourages self discovery! Students can access accompanying textbook playlists on the optional online music as well as create their own lists to expand their own listening library.

• Chapter 1 Introduction and Historical Overview
• What Is Music?
• Elements of Music
• Melody
• Harmony
• Rhythm
• Form
• Texture
• Timbre
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: Ensembles
• Historical Periods and Characteristics
• Medieval Period ca. ad 500–1450
• O Fortuna—Secular song from the Carmina Burana
• Kyrie—Hildegard of Bingen
• Renaissance Period 1450–1600
• Ave Maria—Josquin des Prez
• Canzon XVII—Giovanni Gabrieli
• Baroque Period 1600–1750
• Canon a tre in D major—Johann Pachelbel
• Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah—George Frideric Handel
• Classical Period 1750–1825
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music)— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony #5 in C minor, 1st movement— Ludwig van Beethoven
• Biographical Spotlight: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Romantic Period 1825–1900
• Perspective—Art and Music
• Symphony #4 in F minor, 4th movement—Peter Tchaikovsky
• Intermezzo in A major—Johannes Brahms
• Twentieth/Twenty-First Century 1900–Present
• The Rite of Spring (excerpt)—Igor Stravinsky
• Historical Overview
• Listening Chart
• Hoedown from Rodeo—Aaron Copland
• O Fortuna from Carmina Burana (Songs from Benediktbeuern)—Carl Orff
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 2 Music of the Religious Experience
• Gregorian Chant
• The Mass
• Early Monophonic Style
• Kyrie from First Mass for Christmas— Anonymous
• Polyphonic Style—Renaissance and Baroque
• Gloria from Missa Pange Lingua—Josquin des Prez
• Credo (excerpt) from Mass in B minor—Johann Sebastian Bach
• Classical Style
• Sanctus from Requiem Mass—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Biographical Spotlight: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Romantic Style
• Agnus Dei from Messe di Gloria—Giacomo Puccini
• Music of the Religious Experience
• Psalms
• Chichester Psalms, 2nd movement—Leonard Bernstein
• The Oratorio
• Perspective—Religious Texts and Church Influence
• Characteristics of an Oratorio
• Messiah (excerpts)—George Frideric Handel
• El Niño—A Modern Oratorio
• " Shake the Heavens" from El Niño— John Adams
• Cantata
• " Allegro vivace" from Gloria—John Rutter
• Hymns
• All Creatures of our God and King
• Veni, veni, Emmanuel
• Spirituals and Gospel Music
• Brother Mosely Crossed (Smote) the Water— Traditional Spiritual sung by Andy Mosely
• Witness— Traditional Spiritual sung by Jubilant Sykes
• Clap Your Hands—John P. Kee
• World Worship Music
• Ketjak
• The Ramayana Monkey Chant— Balinese Ketjak
• Tibetan Buddhist Monk Chant
• Invoking the Spirit of Kindness Through Sound— Tibetan Buddhist Monk Chant
• Muslim "Call to Prayer"
• Call to Prayer—Muslim Invitation to Pray
• Tuvan Throat Singing
• Kh mei—Performed by Hun-Huur-Tu
• Contemporary Christian Pop and Rock
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: The Bowed String Family
• Christian Pop Music
• El Shaddai—Words and music by Michael Card and John Thompson, sung by Amy Grant
• I Can Only Imagine—Bart Millard, performed by Mercy Me
• Christian Rock Music
• Alive—P.O.D.
• A Tower of Ashes—Theocracy
• Other Types of Religious Music
• Motet
• Listening Chart
• Magnificat
• Organum
• Stabat Mater
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Additional Worship Music Texts
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 3 Music for the Stage
• Star Wars—Imperial March, Darth Vader's Theme
• Biographical Spotlight: Hildegard of Bingen
• Early Dramatic Musical Composition
• Ordo Virtutum excerpt—Hildegard of Bingen
• Opera
• Early Opera
• Mozart and Classical Opera
• "Queen of the Night Aria" from Act II of The Magic Flute—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Romantic Opera
• "Vesti la giubba," Canio's Aria from Pagliacci— Ruggiero Leoncavallo
• Perspective—Early Theatrical Forms
• "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi— Giacomo Puccini
• Modern Opera
• "The New York Lights" from A View from the Bridge—William Bolcom
• What Makes Music—Voices: Female Voices
• Incidental Music
• L'Arlésienne
• "Farandole" from L'Arlésienne— Georges Bizet
• The Musical
• Forerunners of the Musical
• Musical Songwriting Teams
• The Operatic vs. the Musical Vocal Style
• The Evolution of the Musical—50 Years of Song and Dance
• Tunes, Lyrics, Dialogue, and Dances
• I 'm An Ordinary Man from My Fair Lady— Lerner and Loewe
• I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady—Lerner and Loewe
• Tonight—Quintet from West Side Story— Leonard Bernstein
• The Musical Overture
• Overture to Candide—Leonard Bernstein
• The Evolving Musical
• A Musical Timeline
• Music for the Stage Timeline
• The Phantom of the Opera from Phantom of the Opera — Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Stars from Les Misérables—Schönberg and Boublil
• Bring Him Home from Les Misérables— Schönberg and Boublil
• Musicals since 2000
• Blockbusters since 2000
• No One Mourns the Wicked from Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz— Stephen Schwartz
• My Shot from Hamilton—Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The Modern Stage Spectacle
• "Alegria" title song from Alegria (a Cirque du Soleil show)—René Dupéré
• "Drumbone"— Blue Man Group
• "Riverdance"—Bill Whelan
• "Orinoco Flow"—Enya
• World Musical Theatre Genres
• Kabuki Theatre
• Ozatsuma—Traditional Japanese shamisen music
• Kanjincho—Kabuki theatre music
• Chinese Opera
• The Story of the White Snake—Chinese opera aria
• Listening Chart
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 4 Music for Dancing
• Rhythm and Meter in Dance Music
• Dance Music in the Western Tradition
• Medieval Dance—Estampie
• Estampie—Anonymous
• The Dancing Master of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
• The Baroque Dance Suite
• The Orchestral Dance Suite
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: The Woodwind Family
• Water Music (excerpts)—George Frideric Handel
• "Air" from Orchestral Suite #3 in D major— Johann Sebastian Bach
• Solo Instrumental Dance Suite
• Suite for Solo Cello in G major—Johann Sebastian Bach "Bourrées I & II"
• Nineteenth-Century Waltzes
• An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)—Johann Strauss II
• The Full-Length Ballet
• Timeline of Music for Dancing Swan Lake
• "Lake in the Moonlight" from Swan Lake— Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Perspective—Ancient Dance References
• Ballet Music of Remarkable Significance
• The Rite of Spring
• Biographical Spotlight: Igor Stravinsky
• The Rite of Spring (two excerpts)— Igor Stravinsky "Auguries of Spring" (Dances of the Young Girls)
• "Sacrificial Dance" (The Chosen One)
• Thoroughly American Ballet
• Rodeo
• Rodeo (two excerpts)—Aaron Copland
• "Corral Nocturne"
• "Hoe Down"
• Folk Dance Music from around the World
• Balinese Gamelan Music
• Gamelan Angklung— Balinese Gamelan Music
• Tibetan Buddhist Monk Dancing
• Dance of the Skeleton— Tibetan Buddhist Monks
• Italian Tarantella and Saltarello
• Saltarello—Traditional Italian Folk Dance
• Symphony #4—Felix Mendelssohn "4th Movement" (Saltarello)
• West African Folk Dance Music
• Peul's Dance—Senegal
• Acrobatic Dance of the Youths—Liberia
• Initiation Dance—Togo
• Celtic Reels
• Three Reels (played without pause)— Traditional Celtic Dance Music "The Boys of the Lough" "Over the Bog Road" "The Merry Harriers"
• The American Square Dance
• Bob Wills Square Dance #1—Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• Listening Chart
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 5 Songs
• Folk Songs, Art Songs, and Popular Songs
• Representative Folk Songs
• English Folk Songs
• Greensleeves —Traditional English Folk Song (poss. Henry VIII of England, 1500s)
• Blow the Man Down —Traditional English Sea Chantey
• African Folk Songs
• Gumbukumbu— Traditional African Folk Song
• Kumbaya—Traditional African Folk Song
• What Makes Music—Voices: Male Voices
• American Folk Songs
• Folk Song Inspired by War
• The Cruel War—Traditional Folk Song
• Folk Song Born of Slavery
• All the Pretty Little Horses—Traditional Folk Song
• Folk Song to Accompany Work
• John Henry—Traditional American Work Song
• Box: A Unique Type of Folk Song
• Pilentze Pee (Little Bird)—Traditional Bulgarian Folk Song. Translated by Milena Albrecht
• Art Songs in the Western Historical Periods
• A Medieval Troubadour Song
• Ahi! Amours (Alas Love)—Conon de Bethune, ca. 1150–1220
• A Renaissance Lute Song
• I Care Not for These Ladies—Thomas Campion, 1567–1620
• A Classical/Romantic Art Song
• Biographical Spotlight: Franz Schubert
• Erlkönig (The Erlking)—Franz Schubert
• Art Songs with Orchestral Accompaniment
• "The Drunkard in Spring" from Das Lied Von Der Erde—Gustav Mahler
• The Emergence of Popular Song
• Stephen Foster
• Perspective—Words in Song
• Timeline of Songs
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair— Stephen Foster
• The Blues
• Twelve-Bar Blues Chord Progression
• Chord Names
• Every Day (I Have the Blues)—B. B. King
• Tin Pan Alley
• Puttin' on the Ritz—Irving Berlin
• Jazz Songs
• Blue Skies—Irving Berlin
• Strange Fruit—Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
• Rock and Roll
• Good Golly Miss Molly—Little Richard
• Roll Over Beethoven—Chuck Berry
• Rock Around the Clock— Bill Haley and the Comets
• The Impact of Rock and Roll
• Box: Rock and Roll Icons
• Blue Suede Shoes—Elvis Presley
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction—The Rolling Stones
• Other Popular Styles
• Urban Folk
• The Times They Are a' Changin— Bob Dylan
• R&B/Motown
• My Girl—The Temptations
• Blues/Rock
• Crossroads—Robert Johnson, performed by Cream
• Heavy Metal
• Metal Meltdown—Judas Priest
• Country
• Folsom Prison Blues—Johnny Cash
• Pop Music
• Candle in the Wind—Elton John, Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
• Alternative Rock
• Jeremy—Pearl Jam
• Listening Chart
• Higher Ground—The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Rap/Hip-Hop
• Hard Times—Run-D.M.C.
• Lose Yourself—Eminem
• Popular Songs since 2000
• Swagga Like Us—T.I., Jay-Z, L'il Wayne
• DJ Got Us Falling In Love 2010—Usher—R&B influenced
• Find Your Love—Drake—Rap influenced
• Mean—Taylor Swift—Country influenced
• Hello—Adele—Pop influenced
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 6 Music for Mourning
• The Requiem Mass
• Biographical Spotlight: Giuseppe Verdi
• The Dies Irae
• Sequence (Dies Irae excerpt) from Requiem Mass in D minor—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Sequence (Dies Irae excerpt) from Messa da Requiem—Giuseppe Verdi
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: The Brass Family
• A Requiem without the Dies Irae
• In Paradisum from Requiem in D minor— Gabriel Fauré
• Songs of Mourning
• Tears in Heaven—Eric Clapton
• "Nun will die Sonn . . . " Movement I from Kindertotenlieder—Gustav Mahler (Now the sun will rise . . . )
• Instrumental Music of Mourning
• Perspective—On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams
• The Funeral March
• 3rd Movement "Funeral March" from Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat minor—Frederic Chopin
• 2nd Movement "Marcia Funebre" from Symphony #3 in E-flat major—Ludwig van Beethoven
• Threnody
• Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima— Krzysztof Penderecki
• The Adagio for Strings
• Timeline of Music for Mourning
• Adagio for Strings—Samuel Barber
• Dogon Funeral Music
• Dogon Funeral Music
• The New Orleans Jazz Funeral
• Just a Closer Walk with Thee—Jazz Funeral Dirge
• When the Saints Go Marching In— Traditional
• Native American Funeral Music
• Funeral Song—Watapai (Walapai)
• Listening Chart
• Warrior Death Song (for Sitting Bull)— Assinboine (Assiniboine)
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 7 Music for Celebration, Inspiration, and Commemoration
• Music for Celebration
• Happy Birthday
• Auld Lang Syne
• Auld Lang Syne—Traditional Scottish Folk Song performed by Guy Lombardo's Orchestra
• The Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream—Felix Mendelssohn
• Jewish Wedding Music
• Hava Nagila (Come Let Us Be Glad)—Traditional Jewish Folk Dance
• Wedding Dance—Traditional Jewish Klezmer Music
• Mexican Hat Dance
• Jarabe Tapatío—Jesús Rubio
• Music of Inspiration
• Fanfares
• Hail to the Chief—Ceremonial Fanfare
• Olympic Fanfare (opening flourish)— John Williams
• Olympic Fanfare (entire composition)— John Williams
• Fanfare for the Common Man—Aaron Copland
• National Anthems
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: The Percussion Family
• The Star Spangled Banner (verses 1 and 4)— words by Francis Scott Key, music by John Stafford Smith
• Marches
• The Stars and Stripes Forever—John Philip Sousa
• Music of Commemoration
• The Concert Overture
• Festive Overture—Dmitri Shostakovich
• The 1812 Overture
• Timeline of Music for Celebration, Inspiration, and Commemoration
• Perspective—Monuments and Memorials
• Biographical Spotlight: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• 1812 Overture—Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Lincoln Portrait
• Lincoln Portrait—Aaron Copland
• A Song of Celebration, Inspiration, and Commemoration
• Listening Chart
• We Shall Overcome—Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, and Frank Hamilton
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 8 Music for the Concert Hall
• Development of the Concert Tradition
• Musical Experiences before the Twentieth Century
• Music For The Concert Hall—Historical Periods, Common Genres, and Composers
• Baroque Period, 1600–1750
• Style and Characteristics
• Musical Elements
• Baroque Instruments
• Box: The Baroque Orchestra
• The Basso Continuo
• Baroque Instrumental Genres
• Concerto Grosso
• Brandenburg Concerto #2, 1st movement— Johann Sebastian Bach
• Concerto
• Lute Concerto in D major, 2nd movement— Antonio Vivaldi
• The Fugue
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: Keyboards
• Little Organ Fugue in G minor—Johann Sebastian Bach
• Little Fugue in G minor (orchestrated)— Johann Sebastian Bach
• Biographical Spotlight: Johann Sebastian Bach
• The Trio Sonata and the Sonata
• Sonata, Opus 1 #3, Presto—Arcangelo Corelli
• Box: Italian Terms
• Classical Period, 1750–1825
• Style and Characteristics
• Perspective—Baroque to the Twenty-First Century (Part 1)
• Musical Elements
• Single-Movement Forms of the Classical Period
• Sonata Form
• Classical Instrumental Genres
• The Symphony
• Box: The Classical Orchestra
• Symphony #5 in C minor, 1st movement— Ludwig van Beethoven
• The String Quartet
• String Quartet in D minor, 2nd movement (Andante con moto)—Franz Schubert
• Box: Composition
• The Concerto
• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, 1st movement—Franz Joseph Haydn
• The Sonata
• Piano Sonata, Opus 13, 2nd movement—Ludwig van Beethoven
• Romantic Period, 1825–1900
• Style and Characteristics
• Timeline of Music for the Concert Hall
• Musical Elements
• Box: The Romantic Orchestra
• The Romantic Piano
• Ballade in G minor—Frederic Chopin
• Romantic Period Instrumental Genres
• Program Music, Nationalism, and Impressionism
• Program Music
• Till Eulenspiegel's Lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks)—Richard Strauss
• Nationalism
• Night on Bald Mountain—Modest Mussorgsky, revised by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Impressionism
• L'Après-midi d'un faun (The Afternoon of a Faun)—Claude Debussy
• The Romantic Symphony
• The New World Symphony
• Symphony #9, 2nd movement, Largo—excerpt Antonin Dvor?ák
• Goin' Home—Melody composed by Antonin Dvor?ák, words by William Arms Fisher
• Symphony #9, 4th movement, Allegro con fuoco (Fast with fire)—Antonin Dvor?ák
• Twentieth/Twenty-First Century 1900–Present
• Style and Characteristics
• Perspective—Baroque to the Twenty-First Century (Part 2)
• A New Musical Language—Re-Evaluating Common Practices
• Serialism
• Expressionism
• Five Piano Pieces, two movements—Arnold Schoenberg
• Langsam (Slowly)
• Sehr rasch (Very quickly)
• Primitivism
• The Rite of Spring, excerpt "Adoration of the Earth"—Igor Stravinsky
• Neoclassicism
• Pulcinella, Overture and Allegro—Igor Stravinsky
• Avant-garde: Experiments in Modern Music
• The Banshee—Henry Cowell
• Traditionalism
• Twentieth/Twenty-First Century Tonality-Based Compositions
• Rhapsody in Blue
• Rhapsody in Blue—George Gershwin
• Afro-American Symphony
• Afro-American Symphony, 3rd movement "Animato"—William Grant Still
• Symphony #2, Mysterious Mountain
• Symphony #2, Mysterious Mountain, double fugue excerpt—Alan Hovhannes
• In C
• In C—Terry Riley
• Symphony #3, 4th movement—Philip Glass
• Crossover Music
• Blackberry Winter, 3rd movement—Conni Ellisor
• "Vivace" from Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra—Yngwie Malmsteen with David Rosenthal
• Since 2000
• Listening Chart
• Lost Vegas for symphonic band—3rd movement "Fever"—Michael Daugherty
• Sinfonia #3 La Salsa—1st Movement "Tumbao"—Roberto Sierra
• Last Round—1st Movement—Movido, urgente— Macho, cool, and dangerous—Osvaldo Golijov
• Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets from Poems from Tang—Zhou Long
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 9 Music for the Movies
• Early Years of Movie Music
• The Jazz Singer
• Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye—Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo
• Kol Nidre—Jewish Prayer
• Orchestral Scores
• King Kong, Main Title Sequence— Max Steiner
• The Sea Hawk, Main Title Sequence— Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Gone with the Wind, Main Title Sequence— Max Steiner
• Alexander Nevsky—A Milestone in Movie Music
• Alexander Nevsky, " Battle on the Ice"—Sergei Prokofiev, Two excerpts
• Songs in Film
• Somewhere, Over the Rainbow—music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
• As Time Goes By from Casablanca—Herman Hupfield
• An Evolving View of the Role of Music in Movies
• "Circus Music" from The Red Pony—Aaron Copland
• Musical Performances as Pivotal Scenes
• Die Wacht am Rhein/La Marseillaise from Casablanca
• The Storm Cloud Cantata from The Man Who Knew Too Much—Arthur Benjamin
• Wild Signals from Close Encounters of the Third Kind—John Williams
• Staged Musical Adaptations
• What Makes Music—The Conductor
• "Dat's Love" from Carmen Jones—lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, music by Georges Bizet
• Classical Compositions That Appear in Movies
• Musical Biopics
• Timeline of Music for Movies
• Music for Animated Movies and Cartoons
• Cartoon Shorts
• Powerhouse—Raymond Scott
• William Tell Overture—Gioacchino Rossini
• Electronic Scores
• Forbidden Planet, Main Title Sequence—Louis and Bebe Barron
• Perspective 1—Music on Radio and Television
• Perspective 2—Music for Video Games
• Forbidden Planet, "Battle with Invisible Monster"—Louis and Bebe Barron
• Chariots of Fire, Main Title Sequence— Vangelis
• The Day the Earth Stood Still, "Prelude"— Bernard Herrmann
• The Influence of the Director
• "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre— Richard Wagner
• Prominent Composers of Movie Music
• "Murder" (Shower Scene from Psycho)—Bernard Herrmann
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly—Main Theme—Ennio Morricone
• Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission—Ennio Morricone
• Dr. No, "James Bond Theme"—John Barry
• Biographical Spotlight: John Williams
• Listening Chart
• Jaws, "Main Title and First Victim"— John Williams
• Star Wars, "Main Title Sequence"— John Williams
• Since 2000
• "Istanbul Grand Bazaar" from Skyfall— Thomas Newman
• "The Luzhin Defence" from The Luzhin Defence—Alexandre Desplat
• "Concerning Hobbits" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring—Howard Shore
• "Main Theme" from Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV—Yoko Shimomura and John Graham
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening/Watching
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Chapter 10 The Experience of Improvisation
• Improvisation, a Uniquely Musical Experience
• The Improvisatory Framework
• Improvisation in Western Art Music
• Lute Concerto in D major, 2nd movement— Antonio Vivaldi
• Piano Concerto #1 in C major, 1st movement— Ludwig van Beethoven, Cadenza improvised by Galina Vracheva
• Improvisation in the Contemporary "Classical" Context
• A Night In Tunisia—Dizzy Gillespie, performed by the Turtle Island String Quartet
• Muir Woods Suite, "Phase 5"—George Duke
• Improvisation in Jazz
• When the Saints Go Marching In—performed by Louis Armstrong
• West End Blues—Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
• Biographical Spotlight: Louis Armstrong
• One O'Clock Jump—Count Basie and His Orchestra
• Take the "A" Train—Billy Strayhorn, performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra
• In the Mood—Glenn Miller Big Band
• Straight No Chaser—Thelonious Monk
• A Night in Tunisia—Dizzy Gillespie
• Yvette—Stan Getz
• So What—Miles Davis
• Bitches Brew—Miles Davis
• Improvisation in Rock Music
• Good Golly Miss Molly—Little Richard
• Roll Over Beethoven—Chuck Berry
• The Experience of Improvisation Timeline
• Perspective—Improvisation in Theatre and Dance
• Rock Around the Clock—Bill Haley and the Comets
• Spoonful—Willie Dixon, performed by Cream
• You Enjoy Myself—Trey Anastasio, performed by Phish
• Improvisation in Non-Western Music
• Maqam Kurd—Traditional Arabic Improvisation
• What Makes Music—Musical Instruments: Plucked Strings
• Raga: Tilik Shayam—Performed by Ravi Shankar
• Listening Chart
• Summary
• Suggested Further Listening
• Question Assignment
• Listening Exercises
• Glossary of Key Terms
• Glossary of Key People and Compositions
• Appendix
• Index of Key Terms
• Index of Key People and Compositions