Music: An Appreciation - 12th Edition

Music: An Appreciation is a unique text featuring a concise presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen musical selections and insightful listening guides. 

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• Provides step-by-step guidance through the elements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate.
• Equips students with the language, tools and listening skills required to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.

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Content

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. Performance
• 11. Musical Style

Part II The Middle Ages

• 1. Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)
• 2. Gregorian Chant
• 3. Secular Music in the Midde 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 Sebastian 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 Hadyn
• 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. Bed rich Smetana
• 15. Antonin Dvorak
• 16. Johannes Brahms
• 17. Georges Bizet
• 18. Giuseppe Verdi
• 19. Giacomo Puccini
• 20. Richard Wagner
• 21. Gustav Mahler

Part VII The Twentieth Century

• 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. Dmitri Shostakovich
• 14. Music in America
• 15. Charles Ives
• 16. George Gershwin
• 17. William Grant Still
• 18. Aaron Copland
• 19. Albert Ginestera
• 20. Musical Styles Since 1945
• 21. Music Since 1945: Five Representative Pieces

Part VIII Jazz

• 1. Jazz Styles
• 2. Ragtime
• 3. Blue
• 4. New Orleans Style
• 5. Swing
• 6. Bebop
• 7. Jazz Styles 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
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Photo Credits
• Index