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9781439083475

Listening to Western Music (with Introduction to Listening CD-ROM)

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  • ISBN13:

    9781439083475

  • ISBN10:

    1439083479

  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-03-31
  • Publisher: Schirmer
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Summary

The only music appreciation text on the market to include listening exercises throughout the book, LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC, Sixth Edition, masterfully develops and refines your listening skills. Acclaimed for unparalleled clarity and accuracy, using Wright will help you study efficiently, do well on your tests and quizzes, and learn to enjoy many kinds of music. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern. Learning to listen critically is at the heart of a music appreciation course, and Wright gives you the tools to develop and sharpen your listening skills in three important ways: First, LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC is the only text to include detailed Listening Exercises throughout the book. These exercises, which ask questions just like the ones your instructor is likely to ask in quizzes, will help you focus on important musical elements and episodes and do well in the course. Second, a free "Introduction to Listening" CD is packaged with each copy of the text. This CD plays all of the music discussed in the music fundamentals chapters in Part I of the text to help you get a good start in the first few weeks of class. Third, interactive Active Listening Guides and listening quizzes, with streaming music for most of the selections in the text, are available on the Schirmer Cengage Learning website and multimedia eBook.

Table of Contents

The Elements of Music
Listening to Music
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Dynamics and Color
Musical Texture and Form
Musical Style
The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 476-1600
Medieval Music, 476-1450
Renaissance Music, 1450-1600
The Baroque Period, 1600-1750
Introduction to Baroque Art and Music
Early Baroque Vocal Music
Toward Late Baroque Instrumental Music
The Late Baroque: Bach
The Late Baroque: Handel
The Classical Period, 1750-1820
Classical Style
Classical Composers: Haydn and Mozart
Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata-Allegro
Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo
Classical Genres: Instrumental Music
Classical Genres: Vocal Music
Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism
Romanticism, 1820-1900
Introduction to Romanticism
Romantic Music: the Art Song
Romantic Music: Program Music and Ballet
Romantic Music: Piano Music
Romantic Opera: Italy
Romantic Opera: Germany
Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera
Music and Nationalism
Late Romantic Orchestral Music
Modern and Postmodern Art Music, 1880-Present
Impressionism and Exoticism
Modernism in Music and the Arts
Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism
Russian and Eastern European Modernism
Three American Voices
Postmodernism
Glossary
Index
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