Listening to Music

Name: Listening to Music
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ISBN: 9780393001303

ISBN-10: 039300130X

ISBN-13: 9780393001303

Edition: Revised

Authors: Douglas Moore

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Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment through intelligent appreciation. Without presupposing any technical knowledge on the part of the reader, Douglas Moore explains what happens in a piece of music, analyzing familiar compositions as examples.First he discusses music as a language--how it conveys definite thoughts and feelings. Then he takes up in turn the various elements found in all music--tone, rhythm, melody, harmony; finally, he shows why music must have form and traces its development from the simplest folk-song to the complex modern symphony.Douglas Moore's skillful…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1963
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English