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ISBN: 9780312434199

ISBN-10: 0312434197

ISBN-13: 9780312434199

Edition: 6th 2008

Authors: Joseph Kerman, Gary Tomlinson

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Widely praised by instructors for its captivating presentation of musical concepts, this landmark music-appreciation text continues to help transform students into active, insightful listeners. Authors Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson, two of America's leading musicologists and music educators, are both known as inspirational and wide-ranging teachers. Their diverse experience, lively writing style, and clear explanations of musical concepts make music approachable and engaging for students in the introductory course. Their text continually offers the highest quality recordings, the clearest Listening Charts, and the richest cultural contexts to inform students' listening. Now the sixth…

Book details

List price: $77.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English



Preface: To the Instructor


Introduction: To the Student


Music and History


Listening


Fundamentals


Listening


Prelude: An Orchestral Prelude by Richard Wagner


Wagner, Prelude to The Valkyrie


Music, Sound, and Time


Sound Vibrations


Dynamics (Amplitude)


Pitch and Dynamics


Tone Color: Overtones


Duration


Rhythm and Pitch


Rhythm


Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo


Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo


Pitch


Interlude A: Musical Notation


The Structures of Music


Melody


Box: Characteristics of Tunes


Melody and Tune


Harmony


Texture


Texture


Tonality and Modality


Mode and Key


Musical Instruments


Musical Form and Musical Style


Form in Music


Musical Form


Musical Style


Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra


Early Music: An Overview


The Middle Ages


Music and the Church: Plainchant


Plainchant, Preface for Mass on Whit Sunday, "Vere dignum"


"In paradisum"


Hildegard of Bingen, Plainchant Sequence, "Columba aspexit"


Music at Court


Box: How Did Early Music Sound?


Troubadour song, "La dousa votz"


The Evolution of Polyphony


"Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"