Listening to Music (with CD)
ISBN: 9780495189732 | 0495189731
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/25/2007
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More than any other music appreciation text, LISTENING TO MUSIC, 5th Edition, helps students to develop and refine their listening skills. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern and integrates non-Western music throughout the text where appropriate, drawing comparisons between Western and non-Western musical cultures. Concluding chapters discuss popular music and its impact on musical globalization. Musical examples from each historical period are discussed within their social context, giving students a broad sense not ... MORE
| The Elements of Music | |
| Listening to Music | |
| Rhythm | |
| Melody | |
| Harmony | |
| Dynamics and Color | |
| Musical Texture and Form | |
| Musical Style | |
| The Middle Ages and Renaissance, 476-1600 | |
| Medieval Music, 476-1475 | |
| Renaissance Music, 1475-1600 | |
| The Baroque Period, 1600-1750 | ... MORE|
| Introduction to Baroque Art and Music | |
| Early Baroque Vocal Music | |
| Middle Baroque Instrumental Music | |
| The Late Baroque: Bach | |
| The Late Baroque: Handel | |
| The Classical Period, 1750-1820 | |
| Classical Style | |
| Classical Composers: Haydn and Mozart | |
| Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata-Allegro | |
| Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo | |
| Classical Genres: Instrumental Music | |
| Classical Genres: Vocal Music | |
| Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism | |
| Romanticism, 1820-1900 | |
| Introduction to Romanticism | |
| Early Romantic Music: The Art Song | |
| Early Romantic Music: Program Music | |
| Early Romantic Music: Piano Music | |
| Romantic Opera: Italian | |
| Romantic Opera: German | |
| Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera | |
| Music and Nationalism | |
| Late Romantic Orchestral Music | |
| Modern and Postmodern Art Music, 1880-present | |
| Impressionism | |
| Exoticism | |
| Modernism in Music and the Arts | |
| Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism | |
| Russian and Eastern European Modernism | |
| Three American Voices | |
| Postmodernism | |
| American Popular Music | |
| Blues and Early Jazz | |
| Postwar Jazz | |
| Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway Musical | |
| Rock: Music of Rebellion | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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