Study Guide for Hoffer’s Music Listening Today, 3rd

by Hoffer, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780495094333
• ISBN10: 0495094331
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-11
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

Reinforce course content by completing exercises that correspond directly to the text.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Getting Started	p. 1
Taking Advantage of the Active Listening Guides	p. 1
To Students in Nontraditional Learning Situations	p. 5
Attending Performances	p. 8
Suggestions for Writing Concert Reports	p. 14
The Nature of Music	p. 17
Music Listening and You	p. 18
Rhythm	p. 19
Melody and Harmony	p. 20
Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization	p. 23
Orchestral Instruments	p. 24
Other Musical Instruments	p. 27
Notable Features of the Nature of Music	p. 29
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 29
Review
Matching Questions	p. 30
Crossword Puzzle: Elements of Music	p. 32
Crossword Puzzle: Musical Instruments	p. 33
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 34
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 36
Crossword Puzzle Solutions	p. 37
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 38
Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music	p. 39
Early Western Music	p. 40
Medieval Music	p. 42
Renaissance Music	p. 43
Notable Features of Renaissance Music	p. 45
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 45
Review
Matching Questions	p. 46
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 47
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 48
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 48
Baroque Music	p. 49
The Baroque Period	p. 50
Oratorio and Cantata	p. 52
Opera in the Baroque	p. 53
Suite and Sonata	p. 54
Concerto and Fugue	p. 55
Notable Features of Baroque Music	p. 57
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 57
Review
Matching Questions	p. 58
Crossword Puzzle: Baroque	p. 60
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 61
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 62
Crossword Puzzle Solution	p. 63
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 63
Classical Music	p. 65
Historical Setting: Classical Music	p. 65
Historical Setting: Intellectual Characteristics	p. 66
Musical Features	p. 67
Classicism and Classical Music	p. 68
Sonata Form	p. 69
Listeners' Score: Mozart - Symphony No. 40, first movement	p. 70
The Concerto	p. 77
Classical Opera	p. 79
Chamber Music	p. 80
Piano Sonatas	p. 81
The Symphony and Beethoven	p. 82
Notable Features of Classical Music	p. 84
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 84
Review
Matching Questions	p. 85
Crossword Puzzle: Classical Music	p. 87
Listening Practice: Comparing Baroque and Classical Styles	p. 88
Multiple Choice	p. 89
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 92
Crossword Puzzle Solution	p. 92
Answer to Comparing Baroque and Classical Styles	p. 93
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 93
Romantic Music	p. 95
Historical Setting	p. 95
Musical Features	p. 96
Romance and Romanticism	p. 97
Early Romantic Music	p. 98
Romantic Piano Music	p. 99
Program and Ballet Music	p. 100
Romantic Opera	p. 102
Late Romantic Music	p. 103
Nationalism	p. 104
Impressionism and Post-Romanticism	p. 106
Notable Features of Romantic Music	p. 107
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 107
Review
Matching Questions	p. 108
Crossword Puzzle: Romantic Music	p. 110
Listening Practice: Comparing Classical and Romantic Styles	p. 111
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 112
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 115
Crossword Puzzle Solution	p. 115
Answers to Comparing Classical and Romantic Styles	p. 116
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 116
Twentieth-Century Music	p. 117
Historical Setting	p. 117
Intellectual Characteristics	p. 118
Music in the Twentieth-Century	p. 119
The Mainstream	p. 121
Expressionism and Primitivism	p. 122
Neoclassicism and Tone Row Music	p. 123
New Sounds and New Techniques	p. 124
Notable Features of Twentieth-Century Music	p. 126
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 126
Review
Matching Questions	p. 127
Listening Practice: Comparing Romantic and Twentieth-Century Music	p. 129
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 130
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 133
Answers to Comparing Romantic and Twentieth-Century Styles	p. 133
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 133
Music in the United States	p. 135
Historical Setting	p. 135
Intellectual Characteristics	p. 136
American Music before 1920	p. 137
Concert Music since 1920	p. 138
Popular Music and Jazz to 1950	p. 139
Popular Music since 1950	p. 141
Music for Stage and Film	p. 145
Two Listening Guides	p. 146
Les Miserables, Final Scene	p. 146
Miss Saigon, "I Still Believe"	p. 148
Notable Features of American Music	p. 151
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 151
Review
Matching Questions	p. 152
Crossword Puzzle: Music in the U.S.	p. 154
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 155
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 157
Crossword Puzzles Solution	p. 158
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 158
Music Around the World	p. 159
Folk and Ethnic Music	p. 160
Folk Music of Europe and the Americas	p. 161
Music of Africa and the Middle East	p. 163
Music of Asia	p. 164
Notable Features of Folk-Ethnic Music	p. 165
Discussion and Critical Thinking	p. 165
Review
Matching Questions	p. 166
Crossword Puzzle: Music around the World	p. 167
Multiple Choice Questions	p. 168
Answers to Matching Questions	p. 169
Crossword Puzzle Solution	p. 170
Answers to Multiple Choice Questions	p. 170
Flashcards of Musical Terms	p. 171
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