The Listener's Guide to Music

Chapters

• 1 The Need for a Guide
• 2 Some Simple Necessary Terms Explained
• 3 What the Listener Really Needs to Know
• 4 How the Composer Works
• 5 On the Principle of Design in Music
• 6 How Small Instrumental Pieces Are Made
• 7 On the Mysteries of 'Sonata-Form'
• 8 On the Sonata or Symphony as a Whole
• 9 'What Do You Mean by Your Mountainous Fugues?'
• 10 On 'Programme Music'
• 11 On the Song, On Oratorio, and On Opera
• 12 The Orchestra and Its Instruments
• 13 Some Typical Orchestral Combinations
• 14 The Chain of Composers