1. THINKING ABOUT MUSIC ; People ; --Music Makers ; --Listeners ; Music ; --In Terms of Sound ; --Calling Something "Music" ; --Aesthetic Values in Music ; Meaning ; --Music and Textual Meaning ; --Music as Text ; Use ; Transmission of Musical Knowledge ; --Oral and Aural Transmission ; --Visual Transmission in the form of notation ; 2. THINKING ABOUT INSTRUMENTS ; Instruments as Objects ; --Ideas about Instrument Types ; --Ideas about Particular Instruments ; ---Associations of Sexuality and Gender ; ---Spiritual Associations ; ---Cultural Status ; ---Aesthetic Value ; ---Item of Technology ; ----Item of Commodity ; ---Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound ; Instruments in Musical Practice ; --Instrumental Capacity ; --Ideas about Ensemble ; ---Heterogeneous and Homogeneous ; ---- Sound Ideals ; ---Musical Roles ; ---Aesthetics of Ensembles ; 3. THINKING ABOUT TIME ; Rhythm ; --Free Rhythm ; --Rhythm for the Text Alone ; ---From free rhythm to relatively more organized time ; --Pulse/Beat ; Organizing Time into Units ; ---At the lever of a Single Beat ; ---Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation ; ---Duple and Triple Meters ; ---Some Other Meters ; ---South Indian T?la ; ---Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation ; ---Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter ; ---North Indian T?la ; ---Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes ; ---Rhythmic Groupings ; ---Korean Changdan ; ---Polyrhythm ; Speed ; 4. THINKING ABOUT PITCH ; Pitch ; --Pitch Names ; ---Syllables ; ---Numbers ; ---Letters ; Setting the Pitch ; --Who Sets the Pitch ; --Pitch Placement ; Pitches in Succession ; --Intervals ; ---Naming Intervals ; ---Microtones ; --Scale ; ---The Chromatic Scale ; ---Diatonic Scales ; ---The "Oriental" Scale ; --Number of Pitches in an Octave ; --Pitch Functions ; --Melodic Mode ; Simultaneous Pitches ; --Naming "Vertical" Intervals ; --Dissonance and Consonance ; --Western Functional Harmony ; --Tone Clusters ; Interplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts ; --Performing One Melody ; ---Solo and in Unison ; ---Interlocking Parts ; ---Rounds ; ---Heterophony ; --Performing One Melody with Another Part ; ---Melody and Drone ; ---Melody and Chords ; --Performing Multiple Melodies ; ---Polyphony ; ---Melody and Ostinato ; 5. THINKING ABOUT STRUCTURING ; Improvising and Composing ; --Persons Who Compose ; Putting Something Significant First ; --Sonata Form ; --North Indian Instrumental Form ; Coming to an End ; Telling the Story ; --Music for the Moment ; --Through-composed Music ; --Contrasting Instrumentation ; --Strophic Form ; Responding to the Context ; --Audience-Performer Interaction ; --Intra-ensemble Interaction ; --Music and Movement ; Social Values ; 6. THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT ISSUES ; Encounters and Identities ; --A Focus on Influences ; --A Focus on Boundaries ; ---The National Community ; ---Regional Identity ; ---Gender ; ---Multiple Identities ; Authenticity ; Transcending Boundaries ; --The Mass Media ; --Globalization ; --The Local ; 7. THINKING ABOUT FIELDWORK ; Picking a Project ; Planning the Project ; Doing the Project ; Finishing the Project