Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition

by Kamien, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780077837310
• ISBN10: 0077837312
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780078025099, 9781264029716
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-01-28
• Publisher: MCGRAW
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Summary

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Table of Contents

Preface

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. Musical Style

Part II The Middle Ages And Renaissance

1. Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)

2. Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)

Part III 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. Antonio Vivaldi

11. Johann Sebastian Bach

12. The Baroque Suite

13. The Chorale And Church Cantata

14. The Oratorio

15. George Frideric Handel

Part IV 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 Hadyn

11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

12. Ludwig Van Beethoven

Part V 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. Frederic Chopin

7. Franz Liszt

8. Felix Mendelssohn

9. Program Music

10. Hector Berlioz

11. Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music

12. Antonin Dvorak

13. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

14. Johannes Brahms

15. Giuseppe Verdi

16. Giacomo Puccini

17. Richard Wagner

Part VI The Twentieth Century

1. Musical Styles: 1900-1945

2. Music and Musicians in Society

3. Impressionism and Symbolism

4. Claude Debussy

5. Neoclassicism

6. Igor Stravinsky

7. Expressionism

8. Arnold Schoenberg

9. Alban Berg

10. Anton Webern

11. Bela Bartok

12. Music in America

13. Amy Beach

14. Charles Ives

15. George Gershwin

16. William Grant Still

17. Aaron Copland

18. Albert Ginestera

19. Musical Styles Since 1945

20. Music Since 1945: Five Representative Pieces

21. Jazz

22. Music for Stage and Screen

23. Rock

Part VII Nonwestern Music

1. Music In Nonwestern Cultures

2. Music In Sub-Saharan Africa

3. Classical Music Of India

Appendixes

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index