Listening to Music

Name: Listening to Music
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ISBN: 9780495189732

ISBN-10: 0495189731

ISBN-13: 9780495189732

Edition: 5th 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Craig Wright

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More than any other music appreciation text, LISTENING TO MUSIC, 5th Edition, helps students to develop and refine their listening skills. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern and integrates non-Western music throughout the text where appropriate, drawing comparisons between Western and non-Western musical cultures. Concluding chapters discuss popular music and its impact on musical globalization. Musical examples from each historical period are discussed within their social context, giving students a broad sense not only of the construction of a piece, but also of its historical and cultural meaning. This chronological text offers instructors and students…

Book details

List price: $170.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.310




The Elements of Music



Listening to Music



Rhythm



Melody



Harmony



Dynamics and Color



Musical Texture and Form



Musical Style



The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 476-1600



Medieval Music, 476-1475



Renaissance Music, 1475-1600



The Baroque Period, 1600-1750



Introduction to Baroque Art and Music



Early Baroque Vocal Music



Middle Baroque Instrumental Music



The Late Baroque: Bach



The Late Baroque: Handel



The Classical Period, 1750-1820



Classical Style



Classical Composers: Haydn and Mozart



Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata-Allegro



Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo



Classical Genres: Instrumental Music



Classical Genres: Vocal Music



Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism



Romanticism, 1820-1900



Introduction to Romanticism



Early Romantic Music: The Art Song



Early Romantic Music: Program Music



Early Romantic Music: Piano Music



Romantic Opera: Italian



Romantic Opera: German



Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera



Music and Nationalism



Late Romantic Orchestral Music



Modern and Postmodern Art Music, 1880-present



Impressionism



Exoticism



Modernism in Music and the Arts



Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism



Russian and Eastern European Modernism



Three American Voices



Postmodernism



American Popular Music



Blues and Early Jazz



Postwar Jazz



Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway Musical



Rock: Music of Rebellion