Welcome to the A-R Music Anthology Content Guides

The A-R Music Anthology Content Guides are offered to instructors and their students . The Content Guides are organized by style period and include the following elements:

Content Guide Structure

• Assigned Readings
• • Core Survey
  • Analytical Commentaries
  • Composer Biographies
• Summary List
• • Genres to Understand
  • Music Terms to Understand
  • Names and Works to Remember
  • Main Concepts
• Assigned Scores and Recordings
• Exercises

Content Guides to Download

The currently available Content Guides include:

• The Middle Ages, Part 1: Monophonic Traditions
• The Middle Ages, Part 2: Polyphonic Traditions
• The Renaissance, Part 1: The Roots of Renaissance Music in the Fifteenth Century
• The Renaissance, Part 2: Renaissance Music in the Sixteenth Century
• The Baroque Era, Part 1: Italian Vocal Repertoires of the Seventeenth Century
• The Baroque Era, Part 2: Developments in Instrumental Music
• The Baroque Era, Part 3: National Styles and Encyclopedism
• The Classical Era, Part 1: 1750 to 1780
• The Classical Era, Part 2: 1780 to 1820
• The Nineteenth Century, Part 1: Romanticism
• The Nineteenth Century, Part 2: Nationalism & Ideology
• The Nineteenth Century, Part 3: Toward Modernism

More Content Guides are in preparation, and will be available soon.

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