Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition

by Kamien, Roger

Edition: 7th

ISBN13: 9780078025099

ISBN10: 0078025095

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2010-07-06

Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Summary

Whether from a concert stage or in front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to connect with an audience. It is his unique combination of a performer's musical sensibility and a teacher's understanding of what works with students that has made that has made the Brief Edition of Music: An Appreciation the most widely-used text of its kind.

The book's impeccable scholarship, clear presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen repertoire of musical selections, and insightful listening guides have been its hallmarks from the first edition.

The revision adds a new text feature designed to help students connect their classroom experience to a wider listening world, and an exciting new online component.

Preface
Elements
Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
Rhythm
Music Notation
Melody
Harmony
Key
Musical Texture
Musical Form
Musical Style
The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)
Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)
The Baroque Period
Baroque Music (1600-1750)
Music In Baroque Society
The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form
The Fugue
The Elements Of Opera
Opera In The Baroque Era
Claudio Monteverdi
Henry Purcell
The Baroque Sonata
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Baroque Suite
The Chorale And Church Cantata
The Oratorio
George Frideric Handel
The Classical Period
The Classical Style (1750-1820)
Composer, Patron, And Public In The Classical Period
Sonata Form
Theme And Variations
Minuet And Trio
Rondo
The Classical Symphony
The Classical Concerto
Classical Chamber Music
Joseph Hadyn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig Van Beethoven
The Romantic Period
Romanticism In Music (1820-1900)
Romantic Composers And Their Public
The Art Song
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Clara Wieck Schumann
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Program Music
Hector Berlioz
Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music
Antonin Dvorak
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Richard Wagner
The Twentieth Century
Musical Styles: 1900-1945
Music and Musicians in Society
Impressionism and Symbolism
Claude Debussy
Neoclassicism
Igor Stravinsky
Expressionism
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Anton Webern
Bela Bartok
Charles Ives
George Gershwin
William Grant Still
Aaron Copland
Albert Ginestera
Musical Styles Since 1945
Music Since 1945: Five Representative Pieces
Jazz
Music for Stage and Screen
Rock
Nonwestern Music
Music In Nonwestern Cultures
Music In Sub-Saharan Africa
Classical Music Of India
Appendixes
Glossary And Example Locator
Chronology
Recordings
Acknowledgments
Index
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