Music: An Appreciation

by Kamien, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780078025204
• ISBN10: 0078025206
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780072844849, 9780078025082, 9781259892707
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-01-27
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

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Table of Contents

Part I: Elements

1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

3 Rhythm

4 Music Notation

5 Melody

6 Harmony

7 Key

8 Musical Texture

9 Musical Form

10 Performance

11 Musical Style

Part II: The Middle Ages

1 Music an the Middle Ages (450-1450)

2 Gregorian Chant

3 Secular Music in the Middle Ages

4 The Development of Polyphony: Organum

5 Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in Italy and France

Part III: The Renaissance

1 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)

2 Sacred Music in the Renaissance

3 Secular Music in the Renaissance

4 The Venetian School: From Renaissance to Baroque

Part IV: The Baroque Period

1 Baroque Music (1600-1750)

2 Music in Baroque Society

3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form

4 The Fugue

5 The Elements of Opera

6 Opera in the Baroque Era

7 Claudio Monteverdi

8 Henry Purcell

9 The Baroque Sonata

10 Arcangelo Corelli

11 Antonio Vivaldi

12 Johann Sebastion Bach

13 The Baroque Suite

14 The Chorale and Church Cantata

15 The Oratorio

16 George Frideric Handel

Part V: The Classical Period

1 The Classical Style (1750-1820)

2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period

3 Sonata Form

4 Theme and Variations

5 Minuet and Trio

6 Rondo

7 The Classical Symphony

8 The Classical Concerto

9 Classical Chamber Music

10 Joseph Haydn

11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

12 Ludwig van Beethoven

Part VI: The Romantic Period

1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)

2 Romantic Composers and Their Public

3 The Art Song

4 Franz Schubert

5 Robert Schumann

6 Clara Wieck Schumann

7 Frederic Chopin

8 Franz Liszt

9 Felix Mendelssohn

10 Program Music

11 Hector Berlioz

12 Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music

13 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

14 Bedrich Smetana

15 Antonin Dvorak

16 Johannes Brahms

17 Giuseppe Verdi

18 Giacomo Puccini

19 Richard Wagner

20 Gustav Mahler

Part VII: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

1 Musical Styles: 1900-1945

2 Music and Musicians in Society since 1900

3 Impressionism and Symbolism

4 Claude Debussy

5 Maurice Ravel

6 Neoclassicism

7 Igor Stravinsky

8 Expressionism

9 Arnold Schoenberg

10 Alban Berg

11 Anton Webern

12 Bela Bartok

13 Dmitiri Shostakovich

14 Music in America

15 Amy Beach

16 Charles Ives

17 George Gershwin

18 William Grant Still

19 Aaron Copland

20 Alberto Ginastera

21 Musical Styles Since 1945

22 Music Since 1945: Eight Representative Pieces

Part VIII: Jazz

1 Jazz Styles: 1900-1950

2 Ragtime

3 Blues

4 New Orleans Style

5 Swing

6 Bebop

7 Jazz Style Since 1950

Part IX: Music for Stage and Screen

1 Musical Theater

2 Leonard Bernstein

3 Music in Film

Part X: Rock

1 Rock Styles

2 Rock in American Society

3 The Beatles

Part XI: Nonwestern Music

1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures

2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa

3 Classical Music of India

4 Koto Music of Japan

Appendixes

1 Glossary

2 Tone Color and Harmonic Series

3 Bibliography and Selected Reading

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index