Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition

by Kamien, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780078025099
• ISBN10: 0078025095
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780077837310
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Whether from a concert stage or in front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to connect with an audience. It is his unique combination of a performer's musical sensibility and a teacher's understanding of what works with students that has made that has made the Brief Edition of Music: An Appreciation the most widely-used text of its kind.

The book's impeccable scholarship, clear presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen repertoire of musical selections, and insightful listening guides have been its hallmarks from the first edition.

The revision adds a new text feature designed to help students connect their classroom experience to a wider listening world, and an exciting new online component.

Table of Contents

Preface

Elements

Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

Rhythm

Music Notation

Melody

Harmony

Key

Musical Texture

Musical Form

Musical Style

The Middle Ages And Renaissance

Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)

Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)

The Baroque Period

Baroque Music (1600-1750)

Music In Baroque Society

The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form

The Fugue

The Elements Of Opera

Opera In The Baroque Era

Claudio Monteverdi

Henry Purcell

The Baroque Sonata

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Baroque Suite

The Chorale And Church Cantata

The Oratorio

George Frideric Handel

The Classical Period

The Classical Style (1750-1820)

Composer, Patron, And Public In The Classical Period

Sonata Form

Theme And Variations

Minuet And Trio

Rondo

The Classical Symphony

The Classical Concerto

Classical Chamber Music

Joseph Hadyn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Romantic Period

Romanticism In Music (1820-1900)

Romantic Composers And Their Public

The Art Song

Franz Schubert

Robert Schumann

Clara Wieck Schumann

Frederic Chopin

Franz Liszt

Felix Mendelssohn

Program Music

Hector Berlioz

Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music

Antonin Dvorak

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Johannes Brahms

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

The Twentieth Century

Musical Styles: 1900-1945

Music and Musicians in Society

Impressionism and Symbolism

Claude Debussy

Neoclassicism

Igor Stravinsky

Expressionism

Arnold Schoenberg

Alban Berg

Anton Webern

Bela Bartok

Charles Ives

George Gershwin

William Grant Still

Aaron Copland

Albert Ginestera

Musical Styles Since 1945

Music Since 1945: Five Representative Pieces

Jazz

Music for Stage and Screen

Rock

Nonwestern Music

Music In Nonwestern Cultures

Music In Sub-Saharan Africa

Classical Music Of India

Appendixes

Glossary And Example Locator

Chronology

Recordings

Acknowledgments

Index

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