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Read and take notes on each chapter, paying particular attention to major works and the "Ideas" section. There are sections you do not need to read; these are listed below.
Greece and Rome: Part I, chapters 2-4
Introduction: Classical Period 22-23
Chapter 2: Athens in the Fifth Century BCE 24-61 (Optional section on music, pp. 49-52)
Chapter 3: Hellenistic Style 62-87 (Optional section on music, pp. 76-78)
Chapter 4: Roman Style 88-115 (Optional sections on music and literature, pp. 107-110)
Middle Ages: Part II, chapters 5-8
Introduction to Part II: After Rome… 116-117
Chapter 5: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Styles 118-153 (Optional section on music, pp. 138-141)
You should read the section on Islamic art, pp. 141-146, since it relates to Byzantine art, but you will not be tested on it.
Chapter 6: Romanesque Style 154-187 (Optional section on music, pp. 167-169)
Chapter 7: Gothic Style 188-213 (Optional sections on music, pp. 205-208)
Chapter 8: International Styles in the Late Medieval Period 214-241 (Optional sections on music and literature, pp. 231-232)
Renaissance and Reformation: Part III, chapters 9-12
Introduction to Part III: Renaissance and Reformation 242-243
Chapter 9: Florentine Renaissance Style 246-277 (Optional section on poetry and music, pp. 269-270)
Chapter 10: Roman Renaissance Style 278-297 (Optional section on Josquin Desprez, pp. 293-294)
Chapter 11: Northern Renaissance Styles 298-325 (Optional sections on music and drama, pp. 317-320)
Chapter 12: The Venetian Renaissance and the Rise of International Mannerism 326-357 (Optional section on music, pp. 343-345)
Enlightenment: Part IV, chapters 13-16
Introduction: Counter-Reformation, Baroque, and Seventeenth-Century Styles 358-359
Chapter 13: From Counter-Reformation to Baroque 361-387
Chapter 14: Aristocratic Baroque Style in France 388-413 and England (Optional sections on music, pp. 400-401 and 407-409)
Chapter 15: Bourgeois Baroque Style 414-433 (Optional section on music, pp. 428-430)
Chapter 16: The Enlightenment 434-457 (Optional section on music, pp. 451-453)
Revolutionary Period: Part V, chapters 17-23
Introduction: Revolutionary Period 458-459
Chapter 17: Neoclassicism: Style and Reaction 460-479 (Optional section on music, pp. 472-476)
Chapter 18: Romantic Style 480-513 (Optional section on music, pp. 495-498)
Chapter 19: Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism 514-547 (Optional section on drama and music, pp. 542-543)
Chapter 20: Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part I: Art Prior to World War I 548-571 (The very brief sections on music are optional reading)
Chapter 21: Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part II: Art Between the World Wars 572-597 (Optional section on literature and music, p. 581)
Chapter 22: Midtwentieth-Century Styles 598-631 (Optional sections on dance and music, pp. 610-612, 622)
Chapter 23: Into a New Millennium 632-655 (Optional section on music, pp. 649-651)
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