Music Listening Today (with 2-CD Set), PC Version

by Hoffer, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780534515713
• ISBN10: 0534515711
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-11
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

Charles Hoffer's best-selling MUSIC LISTENING TODAY is a complete course solution that develops students' listening skills while teaching them to appreciate the different styles, forms, and genres of music. This affordable, brief, chronological survey text features two CDs-automatically included with new copies of the book at no additional cost-that contain the text's core music selections. It also features ThomsonNOW, an online multimedia tool that helps students hone their listening skills while it aids instructors in organizing and managing their courses. As in previous editions, MUSIC LISTENING TODAY provides dozens of familiar and less familiar selections-all carefully chosen for their ability to get students interested in listening to all kinds of music. The text's modular format lets instructors teach in any way they choose.

Table of Contents

Part I The Nature of Music	1	(48)
Music Listening and You	2	(7)
Rhythm	9	(6)
Melody and Harmony	15	(8)
Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization	23	(6)
Orchestral Instruments	29	(11)
Other Musical Instruments	40	(9)
Part II Music Around the World	49	(30)
Folk and Ethnic Music	50	(5)
Folk Music of Europe and the Americas	55	(9)
Music of Africa and the Middle East	64	(7)
Music of Asia	71	(8)
Part III Western Music Before 1750	79	(56)
Musical Styles and Periods	80	(4)
Early Western Music	84	(7)
Music of the Renaissance	91	(9)
Baroque Vocal Music and the Recitative	100	(8)
Oratorio and Cantata	108	(11)
Baroque Instrumental Music and the Fugue	119	(7)
Suite and Concerto Grosso	126	(9)
Part IV Classical Music	135	(50)
Classicism and Classical Music	136	(5)
Sonata Form	141	(7)
The Concerto	148	(6)
Opera	154	(9)
Chamber Music	163	(7)
Beethoven and the Symphony	170	(9)
Beethoven and the Piano	179	(6)
Part V Romantic Music	185	(68)
Romance and Romanticism	186	(5)
Early Romantic Music	191	(9)
Romantic Piano Music	200	(6)
Program Music	206	(6)
Ballet and Ballet Music	212	(4)
Romantic Opera	216	(11)
Late Romantic Music	227	(10)
Nationalism	237	(8)
Impressionism and Post-Romanticism	245	(8)
Part VI Twentieth-Century Music	253	(40)
Music in the Twentieth Century	254	(5)
The Mainstream	259	(8)
Expressionism and Primitivism	267	(9)
Neoclassicism	276	(6)
Tone Rows and Serialism	282	(4)
New Sounds and New Techniques	286	(7)
Part VII Music in the United States	293	(54)
Music in Colonial America	294	(5)
Art Music in America to 1920	299	(6)
Art Music Since 1920	305	(9)
Popular Music and Jazz to 1950	314	(11)
Popular Music Since 1950	325	(11)
Music for Stage and Film	336	(11)
Glossary	347	(6)
Index of Composer Biographies	353	(2)
Listening Guides Indexed by Composer	355	(2)
Index	357	(6)
Enhanced CDs Performers List	363	(2)
Photo and Art Credits	365	(3)
About the Enhanced CDs	368