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Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition

ISBN: 9780073401348 | 007340134X

Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL PROFESSIONAL
Pub. Date: 2/26/2007

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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. 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. This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically... MORE

Preface Part I Elements Performer Box: Roger Kamien''s performance of Chopin''s Prelude in E Minor 1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color Pitch: Highness or Lowness of Sound Dynamics Tone Color Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound The Firebird, Scene 2 by Igor StravinskyLISTENING OUTLINE C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra LISTENING OUTLINE 2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments Voices Musical Instruments String Instruments Woodwind Instruments Brass Instruments Percussion Instruments K... MOREeyboard Instruments Electronic Instruments The Young Person''s Guide to the Orchestra,Op.34, by Benjamin Britten LISTENING OUTLINE 3. Rhythm Beat Meter Accent and Syncopation Tempo 4. Music Notation Notating Pitch Notating Rhythm Notating Silence (Rests) Notating Meter The Score 5. Melody 6. Harmony Consonance and Dissonance The Triad Broken Chords (Arpegios) Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No.4, by Frederic Chopin LISTENING OUTLINE PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Roger Kamien playing Chopin''s Prelude in E Minor 7. Key The Major Scale The Minor Scale The Key Signature The Chromatic Scale Modulation: Change of Key Tonic Key 8. Musical Texture Monophonic Texture Polyphonic Texture Homophonic Texture Changes of Texture FarandolefromL''Arlesienne (The Woman from Arles)Suite No.2, by Georges Bizet LISTENING OUTLINE 9. Musical Form Techniques That Create Musical Form Repetition Contrast Variation Types of Musical Form Three-Part (Ternary) Form: A B A Dance of the Reed PipesfromNutcracker Suite, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky LISTENING OUTLINE Two-Part (Binary) Form: A B Contradance No. 7 in E Flat from Twelve Contradances for Orchestra, by Ludwig van Beethoven LISTENING OUTLINE Listening for Form 10. Musical Style Part II The Middle Ages And Renaissance Performer Box: Andrew Parrott 1. Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450) Gregorian Chant The Church Modes Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We have seen his star) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE O Successores (You successors)by Hildegard of Bingen VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE Secular Music in the Middle Ages Estampie The Development of Polyphony: Organum School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France Guilaume de Machaut Puis qu''en oubli sui de vous (Since I am forgotten by you VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE Notre Dame Mass: Agnus Dei VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Andrew Parrott conducting the Agnus Dei from Machaut''sNotre DameMass 2. Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600) Characteristics of Renaissance Music Word and Music Texture Rhythm and Melody Sacred Music in the Renaissance Josquin Desprez and the Renaissance Motet Ave Maria...virgo serena (Hail Mary...serene virgin VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE Palestrina and the Renaissance Mass Pope MarcellusMass: Kyrie Secular Music in the Renaissance Vocal Music: The Renaissance Madrigal As Vesta Was Descending, by Thomas Weelkes VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE Instrumental Music Passamezzo and Galiard, by Pierre Fransisque Caroubel, fromTerpsichore, by Michael Praetorius Part III The Baroque Period Performer Box: Jeanne Lamon 1. Baroque Music (1600-1750) Characteristics of Baroque Music Unity of Mood Rhythm Melody Dynamics Texture Chords and the Basso Continuo (Figured Bass) Words and Music The Baroque Orchestra Baroque Forms 2. Music In Baroque Society 3. The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form BrandenburgConcerto No.5 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach: First Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 4. The Fugue Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue), by Johann Sebastian Bach LISTENING OUTLINE 5. The Elements Of Opera 6. Opera In The Baroque Era 7. Claudio Monteverdi Orfeo (Orpheus) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE:Tu se morta (You are dead) 8. Henry Purcell Ground Bass Dido and Aeneas VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE:Dido''s Lament 9. The Baroque Sonata Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op.3, No.10, by Arcangelo Corelli 10. Antonio Vivaldi La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op.8, No.1, fromThe Four SeasonsLISTENING OUTLINE: First MovementPERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Violinist Jeanne Lamon plays and conducts Vivaldi''s ''Spring'' Concerto 11. Johann Sebastian Bach Bach''s Music 12. The Baroque Suite Suite No.3 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach 13. The Chorale And Church Cantata The Church Cantata Cantata No.140:Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake, a voice is calling us)by Johann Sebastian Bach VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Fourth Movement; Seventh Movement 14. The Oratorio 15. George Frideric Handel Handel''s Music Messiah VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES:Ev''ry Valley Shall Be Exalted; HallelujahChorus Part IV The Classical Period Performer Box: Murray Perahia 1. The Classical Style (1750-1820) Characteristics of the Classical Style Contrast of Mood Rhythm Texture Melody Dynamics and the Piano The End of the Basso Continuo The Classical Orchestra Classical Forms 2. Composer, Patron, And Public In The Classical Period Vienna 3. Sonata Form Exposition Development Recapitulation Coda Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 4. Theme And Variations Symphony No.94 in G Major (Surprise), by Joseph Haydn: Second Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 5. Minuet And Trio Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 6. Rondo String Quartet in C Minor, Op.18, No.4, by Ludwig van Beethoven: Fourth Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 7. The Classical Symphony 8. The Classical Concerto 9. Classical Chamber Music 10. Joseph Hadyn Haydn''s Music Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major: Third Movement 11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart''s Music Don Giovanni Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene Act 1:Madamina(Leporello''s catalog aria) Symphony No.40 in G. Minor, K.550 Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major, K.488 LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Murray Perahia playing and conducting the first movement of Mozart''s Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 12. Ludwig Van Beethoven Beethoven''s Music Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op.13 (Pathetique) Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67 LISTENING OUTLINES: First Movement; Second Movement Part V The Romantic Period Performer Box: Pavarotti 1. Romanticism In Music (1820-1900) Characteristics of Romantic Music Individuality of Style Expressive Aims and Subjects Nationalism and Exoticism Program Music Expressive Tone Color Colorful Harmony Expanded Range of Dynamics, Pitch, and Tempo Forms: Miniature and Monumental 2. Romantic Composers And Their Public 3. The Art Song Strophic and Through-Composed Form The Song Cycle 4. Franz Schubert Schubert''s Music Erlkonig (The Erlking) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE 5. Robert Schumann Robert Schumann''s Music Carnaval 6. Clara Wieck Schumann Clara Wieck Schumann''s Music Liebst du um Schonheit (If you love for beauty) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE 7. Frederic Chopin Chopin''s Music Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.9, No.2 LISTENING OUTLINE Etude in C Minor, Op.9, No.12 LISTENING OUTLINE Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op.53 8. Franz Lis

Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita.

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