Experience Music ISE

Katherine Charlton Calkins teaches in the music department at Mt. San Antonio College where she spent eight years on the all-college general education committee and then served as chair of the music department for the following ten years. During a yearlong sabbatical in 2007-2008 she studied women composers and compiled biographies, recordings, and listening guides, which she made available to her colleagues to help them add more women to their music appreciation and history classes. As a performer, she has a degree in classical guitar from California State University at Fullerton. She toured in Southern France and Tuscany, playing lute with an early music group led by her late, first husband Andrew Charlton and his friend Gloria Ramsey, both well known in the field of early music. Calkins also played percussion and toured in Japan with the CSUF Wind Ensemble. She got her M.A. in music history and has continued with further graduate study in that same field. As a teacher, she started the guitar program at Mt. San Antonio College, where she continues to teach music history, music appreciation, and history of rock music. Her first book, Rock Music Styles: A History, is now out in its ninth edition, published by McGraw Hill Higher Education. Experience Music is her second book.

Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music



1 Elements of Music: Sound, Rhythm, Melody, andHarmony



2 Elements that Structure Music: Key, Texture, andForm



3 Musical Instruments and Ensembles



Prelude: The Culture of Medieval Europe



4 Medieval Music



Prelude: The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Humanism



5 Renaissance Music



Prelude: The Triumph of Baroque Style



6 Baroque Opera



7 Cantata



8 Oratorio



9 Baroque Solo and Chamber Music



10 The Baroque Orchestra



Prelude: The Classical Era: Reason and Revolution



11 The Classical Symphony



12 The Classical Concerto



13 Classical Chamber Music



14 Classical Vocal Music



15 The Music of Beethoven



Prelude: Music of the Romantic Era



16 Romantic Songs



17 Romantic Piano Music



18 Romantic Program Music



19 Nationalism in the Romantic Era



20 The Concert Overture



21 The Romantic Concerto



22 Romantic Choral Music



23 The Late Romantic Symphonies



24 Romantic Opera in France and Italy



25 Romantic German Opera



Prelude: The Early Twentieth Century



26 Impressionism and Symbolism



27 Primitivism and Neoclassicism



28 Eastern European Nationalism



29 Germanic Expressionism and the Development ofSerialism



Prelude: American Innovations in the Arts



30 American Music Before World War II



31 Early Jazz Styles



32 Developments in Jazz in the Late TwentiethCentury



33 American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz



34 Twentieth-Century American Classical Styles



35 Musical Theater



36 Film Music



Prelude: New Ideas and Styles from Twentieth-CenturyInternationalism



37 World Musics



38 Post–World War II Innovations



39 Minimalism and Postmodernism



* Rock Music



* Concert Report Forms