Listen to This!
ISBN: 9780131838253 | 0131838253
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Listen to the music. Hear the elements. Expand your playlist.Informed by over 300 instructor and student reviews, Listen to This was created for today's students. It will expand your students' playlist with its listening-oriented approach and the integration of the musical elements. For the professor, it provides a customizable, modular format that gives you the flexibility to design your ideal music appreciation course. Listen to This also encourages students to explore history, culture, and musical styles through active listening, not just th... MORE
| The Elements of Music: A Brief Introduction | |
| Melody | |
| Sci-Tech:The acoustics of melody | |
| Rhythm | |
| Harmony Cultural Contexts:Illegal Harmony? | |
| Texture | |
| Timbre Sci-Tech:The acoustics of timbre | |
| Dynamics | |
| Form | |
| Word-Music Relationships | |
| Genre | |
| The Middle Ages | ... MORE |
| Part-opener: The Middle Ages | |
| The Middle Ages: An Overview | |
| Hildegard von Bingen:Play of Virtues(excerpt) (3:30) Texture | |
| Primarily monophonic | |
| Melody | |
| Primarily conjunct, occasionally disjunct | |
| Cadences | |
| Word-Music Relationships | |
| Primarily syllabic, occasionally melismatic | |
| Rhythm | |
| Primarily free, but at one point in duple meter | |
| Listening Guide Bio: Visions Through Music | |
| The Composer Speaks: Hildegard Defends the Practice of Music Cultural | |
| Contexts:The Morality Play Expand Your Playlist:Chant(Christian plainchant, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish chant) | |
| San Ildefonso Indians of New Mexico:Eagle Dance(3:00) (Global Connection: Chant) Texture | |
| All voices sing one melodic line together | |
| Word-Music Relationships | |
| Vocables | |
| Voices as instruments | |
| Form | |
| A-B-A | |
| Melody | |
| A terraced melody | |
| Listening Guide Cultural Contexts:The Powwow Expand Your Playlist:Native American Music | |
| Francesco Landini: "Behold, Spring" (1:13) Texture: Polyphonic | |
| Rhythm | |
| Triple meter | |
| Melody | |
| Largely stepwise; each unit ends with a cadence | |
| Form | |
| Shaped by form of text, with repeated text set to same music (ABBA) | |
| Word-Music Relationships | |
| Largely syllabic, occasionally melismatic | |
| Listening Guide Bio: The Composer as Poet The Money Trail:Producing a Manuscript Expand Your Playlist:Medieval polyphony (Perotin, Machaut, da Firenze) | |
| Alfonso el Sabio:Songs to the Virgin Maryno | |
| 249, "He Who Gladly Serves" (1:48) Timbre: Contrast between the percussion instruments (two drums) and the wind instruments (two shawms) | |
| Form: Repetition and variation of short melodic units throughout (A, B, and C) | |
| Texture: Three distinct textures on the sha | |
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