Chapter I About Musie
　Unit 1 What ls Music
　Further Reading
　Section A Harmony
　Section B Variation
　Unit 2 Does Music Possess“Secret Power”
　Further Reading
　Section A The Cultural Acoustics of Chinese Musical Instruments
　Section B Instruments of the Orchestra&Chamber Music
　Unit 3 Music of Ancient Greece
　Further Readin
　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
　Further Reading
　Section A Baroque Spirit and Baroque Music Performance
　Section B General Characteristics of the Baroque Music
　Unit 2 Johann Sebastian Bach
　Further Reading
　Section A Johann Sebastian Bach，Father of Music
　Section B Antonio Vivaldi
　Unit 3 George Frideric Handel
　Further Reading
　Section A The Glorious History ofHandel’S Messiah
　Section B Henry Purcell
Chapter IH The Classical Period
　Unit 1 Music of the ClassicaI Period
　Further Reading
　Section A Haydn and Mozart
　Section B John Field
　Unit 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
　Further Reading
　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
　Further Reading
　Section A Felix Mendelssohn，Singer ofthe Songs Without Words
　Section B Tchaikovsky,His Life and Music
Chapter IV The Romantie Period
　Unit 1 Romanticism
　Further Reading
　Section A The Parallel Lives ofVerdi and Wagner
　Section B Johannes Brahms
　Unit 2 Happy Birthday．Fredetic Chopin!
　Further Reading
　Section A The Super Power of Franz Liszt
　Section B Robert Schumann
　Unit 3 Gustav Mahler：Tragic life，Lavish Music
　Further Reading
　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”
　Further Reading
　Section A Listening to the Twentieth Century
　Section B Amold Schoenberg
　Unit 2 Bela Bartok
　Further Reading
　Section A Giacomo Puccini
　Section B George Gershwin
　Unit 3 How Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music
　Further Reading
　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
　Further Reading
　Section A Herbert Van Karajan，A God Among Conductors
　Section R A Personal Reminiscence
　Unit 2 Wilhelm Furtwangler
　Further Reading
　Section A Eugene Ormandy
　Section B Claudio Abbado
　Unit 3 Leonard Bernstein：a Born Teacher
　Further Reading
　Section A．The Passion and Pain of Bernard Haitink
　Section B Erich Kunzel，“Prince of Pops”
Chapter VII Performers
　Unit 1 Yehudi Menuhin
　Further Reading
　Section A Glenn Gould，Weird and Wondrous
　Section B Arthur Rubinstein，the Artist
　Unit 2 Yo-Y0 Ma and the Silk Road Project
　Further Reading
　Section A Louis Armsong：A Cultural Legacy
　Section B Jascha Heifetz：The Violinist ofthe Century
　Unit 3 The Three Tenor
　Further Reading
　Section A Vladimir Horowitz，The Famous Supreme Pianist
　Section B Maria Callas：Voice of Perfect Imperfection