Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students' attention on musical events as they unfold. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music.
Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience-blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color - Performing media : voices and instruments - Rhythm - Music notation - Melody - Harmony - Key - Musical texture - Musical form - Performance - Musical style - Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) - Gregorian chant - Secular music in the Middle Ages - The development of polyphony : organum - Fourteenth-century music : the "new art" in Italy and France -Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) - Sacred music in the Renaissance - Secular music in the Renaissance - The Venetian school : from Renaissance to Baroque - 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 - Arcangelo Corelli - Antonio Vivaldi - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Baroque suite - The chorale and church cantata - The oratorio - George Frideric Handel - 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 Haydn - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ludwig van Beethoven - Romanticism in music (1820-1900) - Romantic composers and their public - The art song - Franz Schubert - Robert Schumann - Clara Wieck Schumann - Frédéric Chopin - Franz Liszt - Felix Mendelssohn - Program music - Hector Berlioz - Nationalism in nineteenth-century music - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Bedřich Smetana - Antonin Dvořak - Johannes Brahms - Giuseppe Verdi - Giacomo Puccini - Richard Wagner - Gustav Mahler - Musical styles : 1900-1945 - Music and musicians in society - Impressionism and symbolism - Claude Debussy - Maurice Ravel - Neoclassicism - Igor Stravinsky - Expressionism - Arnold Schoenberg - Alban Berg - Anton Webern - Béla Bartók - Dmitri Shostakovich - Charles Ives - George Gershwin - William Grant Still - Aaron Copland - Music since 1945 : nine representative pieces - Jazz styles : 1900-1950 - Ragtime - Blues - New Orleans style - Swing - Bebop - Jazz styles since 1950 - Musical theater - Leonard Bernstein - Music in film - Rock styles - Rock in American society - The Beatles - Music in nonwestern cultures - Music in sub-Saharan Africa - Classical music of India - Glossary and example locator
All selections can be accessed in McGraw Hill Connect, or students can purchase an access card that allows them to download MP3 files of selections.Includes bibliographical references and index New recordings have been added to the new edition. These include Elements of Music Interactives, Fundamentals of Music Video Tutorials, Spotify Playlists, and targeted guidance in Listening Outlines and Vocal Listening Guides. The new edition features four learning tools that supplement and expand on Roger Kamien's narrative on the elements. Often it is a student's first exposure to musical vocabulary and concepts. Typically the first material that a Music Appreciation student encounters in the semester is about the elements of music.
The Brief 10th edition of music: an appreciation equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a lifelong enthusiasm for music. Roger Kamien continues to focus on coverage of the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. Music: an appreciation welcomes nonmajors to the art of listening to great music.