Listen

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ISBN: 9781572594227

ISBN-10: 1572594225

ISBN-13: 9781572594227

Edition: 4th 2000

Authors: Joseph Kerman, Gary Tomlinson

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Book details

List price: $57.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 12/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980
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"