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Experience Music!

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ISBN-10: 0073025798

ISBN-13: 9780073025797

Edition: 2007

Authors: Katherine Charlton, Robert Hickok

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List price: $78.75
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 384
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Katherine Charlton Calkins is chair of the music department at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California, where she has taught full-time since 1974. During a sabbatical in 1990, she taught music history at the American Institute for Foreign Study at the University of London. She holds degrees in classical guitar performance and music history and she has performed on medieval gittern, Renaissance lute, and baroque guitar with her late first husband, Andrew Charlton, who was well known in the field of early music. In addition to performing early music, she has played percussion in the California University at Fullerton Wind Ensemble and toured Japan with the group.

Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music
Elements Of Music: Sound, Rhythm, Melody, And Harmony
Sound Rhythm Melody Harmony
Elements That Structure Music; Key, Texture, And Form
Key Texture Form
Musical Instruments And Ensembles
Voices and Vocal Ensembles Stringed Instruments Plucked
Stringed Instruments Bowed
Stringed Instruments Woodwinds Brasses
Percussion Instruments
Keyboard Instruments
Electronic Instruments
Instruments in Non-Western
Cultures Instrumental Ensembles Chamber Ensembles
The Orchestra
The Wind Ensemble
The Conductor Prelude: The Culture of the Medieval Period
Medieval Music
Medieval Sacred Music Gregorian Chant Listening Guide:“Salve Regina” (“Hail, Holy Queen”)
Hildegard of Bingen Listening Guide:“Ave Generosa” (“Hail, Noble One”), by Hildegard of Bingen
The Mass Polyphony and Measure Rhythm Guillaume de Machaut Listening Guide:“Agnus Dei” (“Lamb of God”) from
Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady), by Guillaume de Machaut Hearing the Difference:“Salve Regina” and Machaut’s “Angus Dei&#8221
Medieval Secular Music Improvised Accompaniment to Monophonic Songs Beatriz of Dia Listening Guide:“A Chantar” (“It Is Mine to Sing”), by Beatriz of Dia Hearing the Difference:“Salve
Regina” and Dia’s “A Chantar&#8221
The Motet Prelude: The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Humanism
Renaissance Music
Renaissance Sacred Music Josquin des Prez Listening Guide:“Ave Maria” (“Hail, Mary)
Prez Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Listening Guide:“Kyrie” (“Lord”) fromMissa Papae
Marcelli (thePope Marcellus Mass)
da Palestrina Renaissance Secular Music The Madrigal in Italy
The Madrigal in England
The Live Experience:Madrigal Singing in Homes Listening Guide:“Fair Phyllis,”
The Chanson in France The Lied in Germany Renaissance Instrumental Music Hearing the Difference:Josquin’s “Ave Maria” and Farmer’s “Fair
Phyllis” Listening Guide:“Ballet de Baccanales” (“Festive Dance”) fromTerpsichore
The Live Experience:Renaissance Dance Prelude: The Triumph of the Baroque Style
Baroque Opera
The Birth of Opera Baroque Vocal Styles Claudio Monteverdi
The Live Experience:Opera Singers of the Baroque Listening Guide:Excerpt from Act II ofOrfeo
Opera Outside of Italy Listening Guide:“When I am laid in earth” fromDido and Aeneas
Hearing the Difference:Dia’s “A Chantar” and Purcell’s &#8220
When I am laid in earth&#8221
Cantata
The Secular Cantata The Chorale
The Sacred Cantata
The Live Experience:Basso Continuo Players Listening Guide:Cantata no. 132: Bereitet die Wege
bereitet die Bahn! (“Make ready the ways, make ready the path!”)
The Passion Johann Sebastian Bach
Oratorio
Oratorio George Frideric Handel Messiah Listening Guide:Overture fromMessiah
Listening Guide:“Comfort ye,” an accompanied recitative fromMessiah
Listening Guide: “Ev’ry valley,” an aria fromMessiah
Listening Guide:“Hallelujah” fromMessiah
Baroque Solo And Chamber Music
Keyboard Music Fugue Listening Guide:&#8220
The Little Fugue in G Minor,”
The Live Experience:Playing the Organ Elizabeth-Claude
Guerre Listening Guide:“Sarabande” from Suite No. 1 fromPieces for Harpsichord
Jacquet de la Guerre Baroque Sonata
The Baroque Concerto
Concerto The Live Experience:Playing Solos in Baroque Music Concerto Grosso
Listening Guide:Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, first movement
Solo Concerto Listening Guide:“Spring,” first movement fromLe Quattro Stagione (The Four Seasons)
Prelude The Classical Era: Reason and Revolution
The Classical Symphony
The Form of the Classical Sonata Exposition Development Recapitulation
The Classical Orchestra
The Live Experience:The Duties of the Conductor
Listening Guide:Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, first movement
Listening Guide:Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, third movement
The Classical Concerto
The Live Experience:Concert Soloists Double-Exposition Sonata Form
Listening Guide:Piano Concerto no. 23 in A Major, first movement
Classical Chamber Music
Chamber Sonatas
The Live Experience:The Performance of Chamber Music Franz
Listening Guide:String Quartet op. 33, no. 3 (“The Bird”), fourth movement
Hearing the Difference:Mozart’s Symphony no. 40, first movement, and Haydn’s String Quartet op. 33, no. 3, fourth movement
Classical Vocal Music
Haydn’s Vocal Music Classical Opera
The Marriage of Figaro
The Characters
The Plot Listening Guide:“Non pi� andrai” (“No more will you”) from
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart Listening Guide:“Crudel! Perch� finora” (“Cruel one, why until now?”) Hearing the Difference:Purcell’s &#8220
When I am laid in earth” and Mozart’s “Non pi� andrai” (“No more with you”)
The Music Of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven Listening Guide:Symphony no. 5 in C minor, first movement
Listening Guide:Symphony no. 5, second movement
The Classical Piano Listening Guide:Piano Sonata, Op. 57 (Appassionata), first movement
Prelude: Music of the Romantic Era
Romantic Songs
The Salon Art Song Franz Schubert
Listening Guide:“Erik�nig” (“King of the Elves”)
the Difference:Mozart’s “Non pi� andrai” and Schubert’s “Erik�nig” Robert
Listening Guide:“Im wundersch�nen Monat Mai” (“In the wonderfully lovely month of May”) fromDichterliebe (A Poet’s Love)
Romantic Piano Music
Chopin and Liszt Listening Guide: &amp