On this page may be found word documents, each of which connects contains several YouTube links to the music to be listened to ahead of class as preparation. It is recommended that you listen attentively (i.e., with full intellectual concentration, not merely on in the background) to each piece at least three times before class.

Listening Links 1 for Elements I – 1

Listening Links 2 for Elements I – 2

Listening Links 3 for Elements II – 1

Listening Links 4 for Elements II – 2

Listening Links 5 for Elements III – 1

Listening Links 6 for Elements III – 2

Listening Links 8 for Elements IV – 2

Listening Links 9 for Medieval Music

Listening Links 10 for Notation and Printing

Listening Links 11 for Renaissance Music

Listening Links 12 for Music and Religion

Listening Links 13 for Baroque Music

Listening Links 14 for Music and Emotion

Listening Links 16 for Music and History

Listening Links 18 for Why Beethoven

Listening Links 19 for Romantic Music

Listening Links 20 for Music and Nationalism

Listening Links 21 for Modernist Music

Listening Links 22 for Music and Film

Listening Links 23 for Post-Modernist Music

Listening Links 24 for Music and Sound Recording

Listening Links 25 for Classical-Pop Crossover