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9780205994434

Listen to This Plus NEW MyMusicLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

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  • Edition: 3rd
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  • Copyright: 2014-01-30
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Summary

Listen to the music. Hear the elements. Expand your playlist.

 

Created for today’s students, Listen To This, 3/e provides readers with the tools to listen to music, hear the elements, and ultimately expand their musical horizons. Readers are encouraged to explore history, culture, and musical styles through active listening, not just through passive reading. By concentrating on the elements of music, students develop the ability to connect earlier music with their own music. Praised for its engaging writing style, flexible format, listening-oriented approach and focus on musical elements, Listen To This will instill a life-long appreciation and understanding of music in students’ by expanding their playlist today!

 

This new edition retains the admired focus on the basic elements of music with the addition of new features to offer an enhanced online learning experience with MyMusicLab. Key learning tools within MyMusicLab include significantly expanded Needle Drop exercises, new Listening Guide assessments, the all new Writing Space learning tool, and more!

 


Teaching and Learning Experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It:

  • Personalizes Learning with MyMusicLab: MyMusicLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program, complete with Writing Space, a tool to enhance student essay writing. MyMusicLab helps students prepare for class and instructors gauge individual and class performance.
  • Encourages Active Listening: Redesigned online Listening Guides, developed for tablet as well as PC compatibility, encourage student engagement and understanding through the use of visuals (including animated visual scores by Stephen Malinowski), tailor-made assessments, and personalized learning tools.
  • Includes Tools to Improve Critical Thinking: Key Learning Outcomes encourage students to think critically about visual arts as part of the larger world.
  • Engages Students: Updated scholarship, MyMusicLab, and the readability of the text provide a wonderful engaging student experience.
  • Provides Outstanding Instructor Support: With a wealth of online resources, including an expanded teacher’s manual, instructors have videos, images, and teaching support materials to create a dynamic, engaging course.
  • Offers a Fully Integrated Digital Experience: Complete with eText, streaming audio, listening guides, and MyLab assets, all at an affordable price.

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0205978614 / 9780205978618 Listen to This

0205986838 / 9780205986835 NEW MyMusicLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card - for Listen to This

 


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Author Biography

Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.) His books include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven (2006), and Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (2014). He is the author of numerous essays on the music of Haydn and Mozart, on the nineteenth-century symphony, and on the aesthetics and philsophy of music. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the William N. Reynolds Foundation. The fourth edition of his History of Music in Western Culture, a textbook for undergraduate music history suvey courses, was published by Pearson in 2013. The new third edition of Listen to This reflects his experience and dedication to teaching music appreciation to undergraduates for more than 20 years.

Table of Contents

The Elements of Music: A Brief Introduction

 

PART ONE: THE MIDDLE AGES  

Chapter 1. Hildegard von Bingen: Play of Virtues (excerpt)

Chapter 2. San Ildefonso Indians of New Mexico: Eagle Dance

Chapter 3. Francesco Landini: Behold, Spring

Chapter 4: Guillaume de Machaut: I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady

Chapter 5. Alfonso el Sabio: Songs to the Virgin Mary no. 249, He Who Gladly Serves

 

PART TWO: THE RENAISSANCE

Chapter 6. Josquin des Prez: The Cricket

Chapter 7. Thomas Weelkes: Since Robin Hood

Chapter 8. William Byrd: Sing Joyfully

Chapter 9. Rhyming Singers of the Bahamas: My Lord Help Me To Pray

(Global Connection: Polyphony)

 

PART THREE: THE BAROQUE ERA

Chapter 10. Claudio Monteverdi: Orpheus, selection from Act II

Chapter 11. Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture and Act I, nos. 1-4

Chapter 12. Mbuti Pygmies: "Marriage Celebration Song"

Chapter 13. Barbara Strozzi: "Revenge"

Chapter 14. Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, "Winter," first movement.

Chapter 15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 (“Little”)

Chapter 16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047, finale

Chapter 17. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 140 (“Awake, a Voice Calls to Us”), selections

Chapter 18. George Frideric Handel: Messiah, selections

 

PART FOUR: THE CLASSICAL ERA

Chapter 19. Joseph Haydn: String Quartet op. 76, no. 3, second movement

Chapter 20. Master Musicians of the Ikuta-ryu (Japan): Cherry Blossom

Chapter 21. Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 102, Bm third and fourth movements

Chapter 22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement

Chapter 23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 first movement

Chapter 24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Act I, “Cosa sento”

Chapter 25. William Billings: “Chester”

 

PART FIVE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 26. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op.7

Chapter 27. Franz Schubert: "Erlking,"D. 328

Chapter 28. Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 29. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, fourth movement ("March to the Scaffold")

Chapter 30 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Trio, op. 11, third movement

Chapter 31. Clara Schumann: "Forward!"

Chapter 32. Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in Bb, op. 7, no. 1

Chapter 33. Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Union : Concert Paraphrase on National Airs

Chapter 34. Ravi Shankar (India): Raga Sindhi-Bhairavi

Chapter 35. Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata, Act I, selection

Chapter 36. Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie, Act III, selection ("Wotan’s farewell")

 

Chapter 37. Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 4, in E minor, op.98, finale

Chapter 38. Antonin DvoYák: String Quartet in F Major, op. 96 (“American”), third movement

 

PART SIX: SINCE 1900

Chapter 39. Claude Debussy: Voiles

Chapter 40. Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

Chapter 41. Arnold Schoenberg: "Columbine" from Pierrot lunaire

Chapter 42. Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part One  (excerpt)

Chapter 43. Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

Chapter 44. Robert Johnson: "Terraplane Blues"

Chapter 45. Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail

Chapter 46. Charlie Parker: Ornithology

Chapter 47. Ruth Crawford: Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Chapter 48. Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra, finale

Chapter 49. William Grant Still: "A Black Pierrot" from Songs of Separation

Chapter 50. Aaron Copland: "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo (3:05)

Chapter 51. Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, second movement (“Game of Paris”)

Chapter 52. Leonard Bernstein: "Tonight" from West Side Story (ensemble)

Chapter 53. John Cage: Sonata II from Sonetas and Interludes

Chapter 54. Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Belaluan, Bali: Kebyar Ding III, “Oncang-oncangan”

Chapter 55. Philip Glass: "Knee Play 1" from Einstein on the Beach

Chapter 56. Chuck Berry: "School Day"

Chapter 57. Public Enemy: "Fight the Power"

Chapter 58. Tania Léon: A la Par, second movement("Guaguancó")

Chapter 59. John Williams: “The Walls Converge,” from Star Wars

Chapter 60. Corey Dargel: “On This Date Every Year”

Chapter 61. Austin Wietory: “Nascence,” From Journey

 

PART SEVEN: YOUR MUSIC

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