Elements of Music Plus MyLab Search with eText -- Access Card Package

by Straus, Joseph N.

• ISBN13: 9780205858200
• ISBN10: 0205858201
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2011-08-30
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Explore the relationship between music and society around the world This comprehensive introductory text creates a panoramic experience for beginner students by exposing them to the many musical cultures around the globe. Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in which the author introduces a key musical culture. Through these experiences, students are introduced to key musical styles, musical instruments, and performance practices. Students are taught how to actively listen to key musical examples through detailed listening guides. The role of music in society is emphasized through chapters that focus on key world cultural groups. Note: MyMusicLab does no come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyMusicLab, please visit www.MyMusicLab.comor you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyMusicLab (VP ISBN-10: 020521777X, VP ISBN-13: 9780205217779) Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning- The new MyMusicLabdelivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Active Listening- Excursions contains detailed listening guides that take students through the key elements in each performance. Through MyMusicLab, these guides are now integrated with streaming audio for a truly integrated listening experience. Full streaming audio for most music examples is found through MyMusicLab. Engage Students- Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in a different musical culture. Through this experience, students are inspired to study more deeply the musical cultures of each area of the world. Support Instructors- Supported by the best instructor resources on the market, including MyMusicLab, ClassPrep for digital images, and Teaching with MyMusicLab PowerPoint. 0205858201 / 9780205858200 Elements of Music with MySearchLab, 3/e Package consists of: 0205239927 / 9780205239924 MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card 0205007090 / 9780205007097 Elements of Music

Author Biography

Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He taught for many years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Queens College (CUNY).  The author or editor of twelve books and numerous articles, mostly on topics in twentieth-century music, he is a former President of the Society for Music Theory.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Pitch

Lesson 1: Staff

Lesson 2: Keyboard

Lesson 3: Treble Clef

Lesson 4: Bass Clef

Lesson 5: Great Staff

 

Chapter 2: Rhythm and Meter

Lesson 6: Quarter-, half-, and whole-notes in 4/4 meter

Lesson 7: Eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes

Lesson 8: Dots and ties

Lesson 9: Rests

Lesson 10: Duple meter (2/4 and 2/2)

Lesson 11: Triple meter (3/4)

Lesson 12: Compound meter (6/8)

Lesson 13: Syncopation

 

Chapter 3: Major and Minor Scales

Lesson 14: Major scale (C-major)

Lesson 15: Major scales other than C-major

Lesson 16: Major keys and key signatures

Lesson 17: Minor scale (A minor)

Lesson 18: Minor scales other than A-minor

Lesson 19: Minor keys and key signatures

Lesson 20: Harmonic and melodic minor

 

Chapter Four: Intervals

Lesson 21: Interval size

Lesson 22: Seconds and thirds

Lesson 23: Sixths and sevenths

Lesson 24: Fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves

Lesson 25: Intervals in a major key

Lesson 26: Intervals in a minor key

 

Chapter Five: Triads and seventh chords

Lesson 27: Triads

Lesson 28: Triads in inversion

Lesson 29: Triads in major keys

Lesson 30: Triads in minor keys

Lesson 31: Seventh chords

 

Chapter Six: Fundamentals of Harmony

Lesson 32: Tonic and dominant

Lesson 33: Expanding tonic and dominant

Lesson 34: Approaching the dominant

Lesson 35: Phrase and cadence

Anthology

Harold Arlen, “Over the Rainbow”

Johann Sebastian Bach, Two Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1

No. 15 in G-major

No. 16 in G-minor

 

Johann Sebastian Bach, Two chorales from the St. Matthew Passion

Ludwig von Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement

            Orchestral score

            Piano score

 

Frederic Chopin, Two Preludes from Opus 28

            No. 7 in A-major

            No. 20 in C-minor

 

Duke Ellington, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”

W.C. Handy, “St. Louis Blues”

 

Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3, third movement (minuet)

Quartet score

            Piano score

 

Scott Joplin, “The Entertainer”

 

Josephine Lang, Song

 

John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “Yesterday”

 

Fanny Mendelssohn, Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 11,      third movement

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in A-major, K. 331, first movement, theme and variations 1, 3, and 6        

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Dove sono” from The Marriage of Figaro

 

Matos Rodriguez, “La Cumparsita”

 

Franz Schubert, Two Songs

            “Death and the Maiden”

            “Wild Rose”

 

Robert Schumann, Song