Course Lecture Titles 1. Geography and Archaeology 2. The First Dynasties 3. The Zhou Conquest 4. Fragmentation and Social Change 5. Confucianism and Daoism 6. The Hundred Schools 7. The Early Han Dynasty 8. Later Han and the Three Kingdoms 9. Buddhism 10. Northern and Southern Dynasties 11. Sui Reunification and the Rise of the Tang 12. The Early Tang Dynasty 13. Han Yu and the Late Tang 14. Five Dynasties and the Song Founding 15. Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century 16. Art and the Way 17. Conquest States in the North 18. Economy and Society in Southern Song 19. Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism 20. The Rise of the Mongols 21. The Yuan Dynasty 22. The Rise of the Ming 23. The Ming Golden Age 24. Gridlock and Crisis 25. The Rise of the Manchus 26. Kangxi to Qianlong 27. The Coming of the West 28. Threats from Within and Without 29. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 30. Efforts at Reform 31. The Fall of the Empire 32. The New Culture Movement and May 4th 33. The Chinese Communists, 1921–1937 34. War and Revolution 35. China Under Mao 36. China and the World in a New Century

Course Lecture Titles 1. Music as a Mirror 2. Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church 3. The Middle Ages 4. Introduction to the Renaissance 5. The Renaissance Mass 6. The Madrigal 7. An Introduction to the Baroque Era 8. Style Features of Baroque-era Music 9. National Styles—Italy and Germany 10. Fugue 11. Baroque Opera, Part 1 12. Baroque Opera, Part 2 13. The Oratorio 14. The Lutheran Church Cantata 15. Passacaglia 16. Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto 17. The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era 18. The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence 19. Classical-era Form—Theme and Variations 20. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio: Baroque Antecedents 21. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio Form 22. Classical-era Form—Rondo Form 23. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 1 24. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 2 25. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 3 26. The Symphony—Music for Every Person 27. The Solo Concerto 28. Classical-era Opera—The Rise of Opera Buffa 29. Classical-era Opera, Part 2—Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble 30. The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 1 32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 2 33. Introduction to Romanticism 34. Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music 35. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 1 36. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 2 37. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Bel Canto Opera 38. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Giuseppe Verdi 39. 19th-Century German Opera—Nationalism and Experimentation 40. 19th-Century German Opera—Richard Wagner 41. The Concert Overture, Part 1 42. The Concert Overture, Part 2 43. Romantic-era Musical Nationalism 44. Russian Nationalism 45. An Introduction to Early 20th-Century Modernism 46. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Claude Debussy 47. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Igor Stravinsky 48. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Arnold Schönberg