Experience Music! w/ 2 Audio CDs and CD-ROM

by Charlton, Katherine; Hickok, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780073025797
• ISBN10: 0073025798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-06
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Experience Music!provides an innovative approach to the fundamental challenge of the music appreciation course: the development of real listening skills in each student. With its unique three-part chapter structure in which one piece of music is experienced three times over the course of the chapter, this new text offers a fresh, exciting, and more effective way to help students appreciate and understand great music of all kinds.Experience Music!incorporates additional features providing other frameworks for listening. InHearing the Differencestudents are challenged to compare two contrasting works and understand their similarities and differences.The Live Experienceexposes students to the role of performers in shaping the music we hear.A program of well-crafted supplementary material serves the needs of students as well as instructors using the text. Each new text is packaged with a set of two audio CDs featuring key works addressed in the text and an interactive CD-ROM; additional musical selections are also available for optional purchase. Within the text itself and in the audio CD and CD-ROM components,Experience Music!provides the tools that help students listen more actively and appreciatively.

Table of Contents

Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music

CHAPTER 1: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: SOUND, RHYTHM, MELODY, AND HARMONY

Sound

Rhythm

Melody

Harmony

CHAPTER 2: ELEMENTS THAT STRUCTURE MUSIC; KEY, TEXTURE, AND FORM

Key

Texture

Form

CHAPTER 3: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND ENSEMBLES

Voices and Vocal Ensembles

Stringed Instruments

Plucked Stringed Instruments

Bowed Stringed Instruments

Woodwinds

Brasses

Percussion Instruments

Keyboard Instruments

Electronic Instruments

Instruments in Non-Western Cultures

Instrumental Ensembles

Chamber Ensembles

The Orchestra

The Wind Ensemble

The Conductor

Prelude: The Culture of the Medieval Period

CHAPTER 4: MEDIEVAL MUSIC

Medieval Sacred Music

Gregorian Chant

Listening Guide: Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen)

Hildegard of Bingen

Listening Guide: Ave Generosa (Hail, Noble One), by Hildegard of Bingen

The Mass

Polyphony and Measure Rhythm

Guillaume de Machaut

Listening Guide: Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady), by Guillaume de Machaut

Hearing the Difference: Salve Regina and Machauts Angus Dei

Medieval Secular Music

Improvised Accompaniment to Monophonic Songs

Beatriz of Dia

Listening Guide: A Chantar (It Is Mine to Sing), by Beatriz of Dia

Hearing the Difference: Salve Regina and Dias A Chantar

The Motet

Prelude: The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Humanism

CHAPTER 5: RENAISSANCE MUSIC

Renaissance Sacred Music

Josquin des Prez

Listening Guide: Ave Maria (Hail, Mary), by Josquin Des Prez

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Listening Guide: Kyrie (Lord) from Missa Papae Marcelli (the Pope Marcellus Mass), by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Renaissance Secular Music

The Madrigal in Italy

The Madrigal in England

The Live Experience: Madrigal Singing in Homes

Listening Guide: Fair Phyllis, by John Farmer

The Chanson in France

The Lied in Germany

Renaissance Instrumental Music

Hearing the Difference: Josquins Ave Maria and Farmers Fair Phyllis

Listening Guide: Ballet de Baccanales (Festive Dance) from Terpsichore, by Michael Praetorius

The Live Experience: Renaissance Dance

Prelude: The Triumph of the Baroque Style

CHAPTER 6: BAROQUE OPERA

The Birth of Opera

Baroque Vocal Styles

Claudio Monteverdi

The Live Experience: Opera Singers of the Baroque

Listening Guide: Excerpt from Act II of Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi

Opera Outside of Italy

Listening Guide: When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell

Hearing the Difference: Dias A Chantar and Purcells When I am laid in earth

CHAPTER 7: CANTATA

The Secular Cantata

The Chorale

The Sacred Cantata

The Live Experience: Basso Continuo Players

Listening Guide: Cantata no. 132: Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! (Make ready the ways, make ready the path!), by Johann Sebastian Bach

The Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach

CHAPTER 8: ORATORIO

Oratorio

George Frideric Handel

Messiah

Listening Guide: Overture from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel

Listening Guide: Comfort ye, an accompanied recitative from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel

Listening Guide: Evry valley, an aria from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel

Listening Guide: Hallelujah from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel

CHAPTER 9: BAROQUE SOLO AND CHAMBER MUSIC

Keyboard Music

Fugue

Listening Guide: The Little Fugue in G Minor, by Johan Sebastian Bach

Suite

The Live Experience: Playing the Organ

Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

Listening Guide: Sarabande from Suite No. 1 from Pieces for Harpsichord, by Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

Baroque Sonata

CHAPTER 10: THE BAROQUE CONCERTO

Concerto

The Live Experience: Playing Solos in Baroque Music

Concerto Grosso

Listening Guide: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, first movement, by Johan Sebastian Bach

Solo Concerto

Listening Guide: Spring, first movement from Le Quattro Stagione (The Four Seasons), by Antonio Vivaldi

Prelude The Classical Era: Reason and Revolution

CHAPTER 11: THE CLASSICAL SYMPHONY

The Form of the Classical Sonata

Exposition

Development

Recapitulation

The Classical Orchestra

The Live Experience: The Duties of the Conductor

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, first movement, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, third movement, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CHAPTER 12: THE CLASSICAL CONCERTO

The Live Experience: Concert Soloists

Double-Exposition Sonata Form

Listening Guide: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A Major, first movement, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CHAPTER 13: CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC

Chamber Sonatas

The Live Experience: The Performance of Chamber Music

Franz Joseph Haydn

Listening Guide: String Quartet op. 33, no. 3 (The Bird), fourth movement, by Franz Joseph Haydn

Hearing the Difference: Mozarts Symphony no. 40, first movement, and Haydns String Quartet op. 33, no. 3, fourth movement

CHAPTER 14: CLASSICAL VOCAL MUSIC

Haydns Vocal Music

Classical Opera

The Marriage of Figaro

The Characters

The Plot

Listening Guide: Non pi andrai (No more will you) from Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Listening Guide: Crudel! Perch finora (Cruel one, why until now?)

Hearing the Difference: Purcells When I am laid in earth and Mozarts Non pi andrai (No more with you)

CHAPTER 15: THE MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN

Ludwig van Beethoven

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, first movement, by Ludwig van Beethoven

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 5, second movement, by Ludwig van Beethoven

The Classical Piano

Listening Guide: Piano Sonata, Op. 57 (Appassionata), first movement, by Ludwig van Beethoven

Prelude: Music of the Romantic Era

CHAPTER 16: ROMANTIC SONGS

The Salon

Art Song

Franz Schubert

Listening Guide: Eriknig (King of the Elves), by Franz Schubert

Hearing the Difference: Mozarts Non pi andrai and Schuberts Eriknig

Robert and Clara Schumann

Listening Guide: Im wunderschnen Monat Mai (In the wonderfully lovely month of May) from Dichterliebe (A Poets Love), by Robert Schumann

CHAPTER 17: ROMANTIC PIANO MUSIC

Chopin and Liszt

Listening Guide: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, by Frdric Chopin

Hearing the Difference: Bachs Little Fugue in G minor and Chopins Ballade no. 1 in G minor

CHAPTER 18: PROGRAM MUSIC

Hector Berlioz

Symphonie Fantastique

Program of the Symphonie

Part I. Reveries, Passions

Part II. A Ball

Part III. Scene in the Country

Part IV. March to the Scaffold

Part V. Dream of a Witches Sabbath

Listening Guide: Symphonie fantastique, fifth movement, Dream of a Witches Sabbath, by Hector Berlioz

Hearing the Difference: Beethovens Symphony no. 5, first movement, and Berliozs Symphonie fantastique, fifth movement

CHAPTER 19: NATIONALISM IN THE ROMANTIC ERA

Bedrich Smetana

Listening Guide: The Moldau, by Bedrich Smetana

CHAPTER 20: THE CONCERT OVERTURE

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Romeo and Juliet Overture

Listening Guide: The Romeo and Juliet Overture by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky

CHAPTER 21: THE ROMANTIC CONCERTO

Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Listening Guide: Violin Concerto in E minor, first movement, by Felix Mendelssohn

Hearing the Difference: Vivaldis Spring, first movement, from The Four Seasons and Mendelssohns Violin Concerto, first movement

CHAPTER 22: ROMANTIC CHORAL MUSIC

Johannes Brahms

Listening Guide: Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45, sixth movement, by Johannes Brahms

The Live Experience: Choirs and Choral Singing

CHAPTER 23: THE ROMANTIC TRADITIONALISTS

The Romantic Symphony

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 9 in E minor (From the New World), fourth movement, by Antonn Dvork

Other Romantic Traditionalists

Anton Bruckner

Gustav Mahler

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 1, third movement

CHAPTER 24: ROMANTIC OPERA IN FRANCE AND ITALY

French Opera

Italian Opera

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

La Bohme

Listening Guide: Chi gelida manina (What a frozen little hand) from La Bohme, Act 1, by Giacomo Puccini

Listening Guide: Si, mi chiamo Mimi (Yes, they call me Mimi) from La Bohme, Act 1, by Giacomo Puccini

Hearing the Difference: Mozarts Non pi andrai and Puccinis Si, mi chiamo Mimi

CHAPTER 25: ROMANTIC GERMAN OPERA

Richard Wagner

Listening Guide: Den der Bruder schuf, den schimmernden Reif (Now the shining ring my brother once made) from Siegfried, the conclusion to Act , by Richard Wagner

The Live Experience: Productions of Operas

Prelude: The Early Twentieth Century

CHAPTER 26: IMPRESSIONISM AND SYMBOLISM

Claude Debussy

Listening Guide: Prlude laprs-midi dun faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

Hearing the Difference: Smetanas The Moldau and Debussys Prlude laprs-midi dun faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

Maurice Ravel

CHAPTER 27: PRIMITIVISM AND NEOCLASSICISM

Primitivism

Igor Stravinsky

Listening Guide: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Right of Spring), Introduction through the Ritual of Abduction, by Igor Stravinsky

Neoclassicism

CHAPTER 28: EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONALISM

Bla Bartk

Listening Guide: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, third movement, by Bla Bartk

The Live Experience: Playing Percussion

CHAPTER 29: GERMANIC EXPRESSIONISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERIALISM

Arnold Schoenberg

Listening Guide: A Survivor from Warsaw, by Schoenberg

Other Serial Composers

Prelude: American Innovations in the Arts

CHAPTER 30: AMERICAN MUSIC BEFORE WORLD WAR !!

The Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century

Listening Guide: When Jesus Wep,t by William Billings

The Nineteenth Century

Listening Guide: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, by Stephen Foster

After the Civil War

Listening Guide: Ah, Love, but a Day, by Amy Cheney Beach

CHAPTER 31: EARLY JAZZ SAMPLES

Origins of Jazz

Listening Guide: Village Celebration, by the Mende Tribe of Sierra Leone

Ragtime

The Blues

Listening Guide: Lost Your Head Blues, by Bessie Smith

The Live Experience: Improvisation

Hearing the Difference: Beachs Ah, Love, but a Day and Smiths Lost Your Head Blues

Jazz Styles

Listening Guide: It Dont Mean a Thing, If It Aint Got That Swing by Duke Ellington

CHAPTER 32: DEVELOPMENTS IN JAZZ IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Bebop

Listening Guide: Ko Ko, by Charlie Parker

Hearing the Difference: Smiths Lost Your Head Blues and Parkers Ko Ko

Cool Jazz

Free Jazz

Fusion

Listening Guide: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (beginning), by Miles Davis

Hearing the Difference: Parkers Ko Ko and Daviss Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

CHAPTER 33: AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC INFLUENCED BY EARLY JAZZ

George Gershwin

Listening Guide: Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin

William Grant Still

Listening Guide: Afro-American Symphony, first movement, by William Grant Still

CHAPTER 34: AMERICAN NATIONALISM

Charles Ives

Listening Guide: Variations on America (My Country tis of Thee)

Aaron Copland

Listening Guide: Fanfare for the Common Man, by Aaron Copland

CHAPTER 35: ELECTRONIC VERSUS ACOUSTIC MUSIC

Electronic Music

Music Concrte

The Live Experience: Performance Situations for Electronic Music

Edgard Varese

Listening Guide: Pome electronique (Electronic Poem) Edgard Varse

Acoustic Music

Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Listening Guide: Symphony no. 1, first movement, by Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Hearing the Difference: Mozarts Symphony No. 40, first movement and Zwilichs Symphony No. 1, first movement

CHAPTER 36: MUSICAL THEATER

Broadway Musicals

Leonard Bernstein

Listening Guide: "America" from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

Later Musicals

The Live Experience: Musicals Compared with Opera

CHAPTER 37: ROCK MUSIC

Roots and Early Rock Performers

1960s Rock Music

The Diversity of Rock in the 1970s

The 1980s and Beyond

Chapter 38: FILM MUSIC

The Earliest Film Music

Early Sound Films

Later Film-Scoring Practices

Listening Guide: The Main Theme from Star Wars Corigliano, Glass, and Horner

Prelude- New Ideas and Styles Developed out of Twentieth-Century Internationalism

CHAPTER 39: INFLUENCES FROM INDONESIA AND CHINA

Indonesian Gamelan Music

Listening Guide: "Kang Mandor, by Ujang Suryana

Henry Cowell

Music from China

Listening Guide: Moonlight on the Ching Yang River, by Yo Su-Nan of the Tang Dynasty John Cage

Listening Guide: Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes, by

John Cage

Hearing the Difference: Chopins Ballade no. 1 in G minor and Cages Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

CHAPTER 40: INFLUENCES FROM INDIA

Indian Music

Listening Guide: "Raga Bhairari," by Master Dattopant and Group

Terry Riley

Philip Glass

Listening Guide: Company, second movement, by Philip Glass

Hearing the Difference: Haydns String Quartet, fourth movement, and Glasss Company, second movement

CHAPTER 41: INFLUENCES FROM AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

African Music

Ewe Drum Ensembles

Listening Guide: Gadzo (Kayiboe, The Child is not Matured): Music of the Ewe of Ghana

Steve Reich

Listening Guide: Tehillim, part 4, by Steve Reich

CHAPTER 42: FUSION OF CULTURES

Music from Spain

Listening Guide: "Flamenco Dance Song"

Listening Guide: "Saeta" (Arrow)

George Crumb

Listening Guide: "Bebe el agua tranquila de la concin aeja" ("Drink the tranquil water of the old song"), by George Crumb

Hearing the Difference: Glasss Company, second movement, and Crumbs "Bebe el agua tranquila de la concin aeja" ("Drink the tranquil water of the old song")