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LISTENING TO MUSIC covers all the major topics of a typical music appreciation course, but adds two important pedagogical advantages: one, a CD in each student copy of the text contains all of the music discussed in Chapters 1-3, which covers the elements (or "fundamentals") of music, and two, listening exercises in the text. Chronologically ordered, this text covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern. Concluding chapters discuss popular and world music. Musical examples from each historical period are discussed within their social context.This book is available packaged with a 2 or 6-CD Set. See Companion Products for details.

Listening Exercises

Boxes

xvii

Preface

xix

Listening to Music

(12)

Becomin... MORE

(3)

Focus Solely on the Music

(1)

Improve Your Memory

(1)

Grasp the Important Sounds

(1)

Classical Music---Popular Music

(1)

Attending a Classical Music Concert

(2)

Visualizing Classical Music

(1)

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), Modest Musorgsky

(7)

Listening Guide Musorgsky, Polish Ox-Cart

(1)

Listening Guide Musorgsky, Goldenberg and Schmuyle

(1)

Listening Guide Musorgsky, Great Gate of Kiev

(2)

Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony

(24)

Rhythm

(7)

Meter

(1)

Hearing Meters

(1)

Syncopation

(1)

Tempo

(1)

Melody

(9)

Pitch

(1)

The Octave

(1)

Notating Melodies

(2)

Tonality, Keys, and Scales

(3)

Melodic Structure

(2)

Hearing Melodies

(1)

Harmony

(8)

Building Harmony

(1)

Consonance and Dissonance

(1)

Hearing the Harmony Change

(5)

Musical Color, Texture, and Form

(28)

Color

(12)

The Voice

(1)

Musical Instruments

(7)

Building a Symphony

(2)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, ``Eroica''

(1)

Dynamics

(1)

Texture

(3)

Monophonic, Polyphonic, and Homophonic Textures

(2)

Listening Guide Handel, ``Hallelujah'' chorus

(1)

Form

(8)

Creating Formal Designs: Repetition, Contrast, and Variation

(1)

Musical Forms

(1)

Listening Guide Brahms, Lullaby

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart, Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle

(1)

Listening Guide Handel, Hornpipe from Water Music

(1)

Listening Guide Handel, Minuet and Trio from Water Music

(1)

Listening Guide Mouret, Rondeau from Suite de symphonies

(4)

Hearing Musical Styles

(1)

What Is Musical Style?

(1)

Checklist of Musical Style by Periods

(4)

Middle Ages: 400--1475

(1)

Renaissance: 1475--1600

(1)

Early Baroque: 1600--1710

(1)

Late Baroque: 1710--1750

(1)

Classical: 1750--1820

(1)

Romantic: 1820--1900

(1)

Impressionist: 1880--1920

(1)

Twentieth Century: 1900--present

(1)

Medieval Music

(15)

Music in the Monastery

(1)

Gregorian Chant

(3)

Listening Guide Bingen, O Greenest Branch

(2)

Music in the Cathedral

(4)

Notre Dame of Paris

(1)

Listening Guide Leoninus, Viderunt omnes

(1)

Notre Dame of Rheims

(2)

Listening Guide Machaut, Kyrie

(1)

Music at the Court

(7)

Listening Guide Countess of Dia, I Must Sing

(1)

The Polyphonic Chanson

(2)

Medieval Musical Instruments

(1)

Listening Guide Anonymous, The Spanish Tune

(2)

Renaissance

(15)

Josquin Desprez (ca. 1455--1521) and the Renaissance Motet

(3)

Listening Guide Desprez, Ave Maria

(1)

Popular Music in the Renaissance: The Madrigal

(3)

Listening Guide Weelkes, As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending

(1)

The Counter-Reformation and Palestrina (1525--1594)

(6)

Listening Guide Palestrina, Sanctus

(3)

Early Baroque Music

(26)

Characteristics of Baroque Music

(3)

The Basso Continuo

(2)

The Rise of Instrumental Music

100

(1)

Treatment of Musical Elements

100

(1)

The Venetian Polychoral Motet

101

(2)

Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1557--1612)

102

(1)

Early Baroque Opera

103

(9)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567--1643)

104

(3)

Listening Guide Monteverdi, Orfeo, Toccata

107

(1)

Listening Guide Monteverdi, Orfeo, Recitative

107

(1)

Listening Guide Monteverdi, Orfeo, Aria

108

(1)

Henry Purcell (1659--1695)

108

(3)

Listening Guide Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Aria

111

(1)

The Rise of Instrumental Music: Sonata and Concerto Grosso

112

(9)

The Baroque Sonata

112

(1)

Arcangelo Corelli (1653--1713)

112

(1)

The Baroque Concerto

113

(1)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678--1741)

114

(2)

Listening Guide Vivaldi, Concerto in E major, First movement

116

(5)

Late Baroque Music: Bach and Handel

121

(28)

The Theatrical Quality of Baroque Art

121

(1)

Aspects of Late Baroque Musical Style

122

(3)

Treatment of Musical Elements

122

(2)

The Late Baroque Orchestra

124

(1)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750)

125

(11)

The Cantata

126

(2)

Listening Guide J.S. Bach, Awake, a Voice Is Calling, First movement

128

(2)

Listening Guide J.S. Bach, Awake, a Voice Is Calling, Fourth movement

130

(1)

Listening Guide J.S. Bach, Awake, a Voice Is Calling, Seventh movement

131

(1)

Bach's Orchestral Music

132

(1)

Listening Guide J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major

133

(1)

Fugue

134

(1)

Listening Guide J.S. Bach, Organ Fugue in G minor

135

(1)

George Friederic Handel (1685--1759)

136

(13)

Handel and the Orchestral Dance Suite

137

(2)

Listening Guide Handel, Water Music, Minuet and Trio

139

(1)

Listening Guide Handel, Water Music, Hornpipe

140

(1)

Handel and the Oratorio

140

(3)

Listening Guide Handel, Messiah, Aria

143

(1)

Listening Guide Handel, Messiah, ``Hallelujah'' chorus

144

(5)

Classical Ideals: The World of Haydn and Mozart

149

(15)

The Enlightenment

150

(1)

Music and social Change: Comic Opera

151

(1)

Public Concerts

152

(1)

The Advent of the Piano

152

(1)

Classical Simplicity and Balance

153

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, Aria

154

(1)

Vienna: A City of Music

154

(1)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732--1809)

155

(2)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756--1791)

157

(3)

Classical Style in Music

160

(4)

The Classical Orchestra

162

(1)

The Dramatic Quality of Classical Music

162

(1)

Classical Forms

163

(1)

Classical Forms

164

(21)

Ternary Form

165

(3)

Minuet and Trio

165

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart, A Little Night Music, Serenade

167

(1)

Listening Guide Haydn, Symphony No. 94, ``Surprise,'' Third movement

168

(1)

Sonata--Allegro Form

168

(7)

The Shape of Sonata--Allegro Form

169

(3)

Hearing Sonata--Allegro Form

172

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart, A Little Night Music, First movement

173

(2)

Theme and Variations

175

(4)

Listening Guide Haydn, Symphony No. 94, ``Surprise,'' Second movement

178

(1)

Rondo Form

179

(2)

Listening Guide Haydn, Symphony No. 88, Fourth movement

180

(1)

Form, Mood, and the Listener's Expectations

181

(4)

Classical Genres

185

(24)

The Symphony

185

(5)

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1788)

187

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, First movement

189

(1)

The String Quartet

190

(3)

Haydn: Opus 76, No. 3, The ``Emperor'' Quartet (1797)

191

(2)

Listening Guide Haydn, The ``Emperor,'' Second movement

193

(1)

The Sonata

193

(1)

The Concerto

194

(4)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major (1784)

195

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart, Piano Concerto, No. 17 in G major, First movement

197

(1)

Opera

198

(11)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (1787)

199

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart, Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 1

201

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart, Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 7

203

(6)

The Bridge to Romanticism: Ludwig Van Beethoven

209

(21)

The Early Years (1770--1802)

210

(4)

Piano Sonata, Opus 13, The Pathetique Sonata (1799)

211

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Piano Sonata, Opus 13, The Pathetique

212

(2)

The ``Heroic'' Period (1803--1813)

214

(12)

Symphony No. 3 in E Major (``Eroica,'' 1803)

214

(2)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, The ``Eroica,'' Fourth movement

216

(1)

Symphony No. 5 in C minor (1808)

217

(3)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, First movement

220

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Second movement

221

(2)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Third movement

223

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Fourth movement

224

(2)

The Final Years (1814--1827)

226

(4)

The Romantic Spirit (1820--1900)

230

(16)

Revolutionary Sentiment and Romantic Creativity

230

(1)

Music and Nationalism

231

(1)

Music and the Literary Imagination

232

(2)

The Musician as Artist, Music as Art

234

(1)

Romantic Ideals and Today's Concert Hall

235

(1)

The Style of Romantic Music

235

(3)

Romantic Melody

236

(1)

Colorful Harmony

236

(1)

Romantic Tempo: Rubato

237

(1)

Expressive Tone Colors, Greater Size, Greater Volume

238

(4)

The Romantic Orchestra

238

(2)

The Conductor

240

(1)

The Piano

240

(1)

The Virtuoso

241

(1)

Forms: Monumental and Miniature

241

(1)

New Genres: The Symphonic Poem and the Art Song

242

(4)

The Early Romantics

246

(2)

The Art Song

246

(8)

Franz Schubert (1797--1828)

246

(3)

Listening Guide Schubert, Art Song, Erkling

249

(2)

Listening Guide Schubert, Art Song, The Trout

251

(2)

Listening Guide Schubert, Piano Quintet in A major, The ``Trout,'' Fourth movement

253

(1)

Program Music

254

(10)

Hector Berlioz (1803--1869)

254

(5)

Listening Guide Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Fifth movement

259

(1)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809--1847)

260

(3)

Listening Guide Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture

263

(1)

The Pianists

264

Robert Schumann (1810--1856)

264

(1)

Listening Guide R. Schumann, Scenes from Childhood

265

(2)

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819--1896)

267

(1)

Listening Guide C.W. Schumann, Romance for Piano and Violin, Opus 22, No. 3

267

(1)

Frederic Chopin (1810--1849)

268

(2)

Listening Guide Chopin, Mazurka in B major, Opus 7, No. 1

270

(1)

Listening Guide Chopin, ``Revolutionary'' Etude, Opus 10, No. 12

271

(3)

Listening Guide Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3

274

Romantic Opera

248

(51)

Romantic Opera in Italy

278

(9)

Italian Bel Canto Opera

279

(1)

Giuseppi Verdi (1813--1901)

280

(3)

Listening Guide Verdi, La traviata, Act I, Scene 4

283

(2)

Listening Guide Verdi, La traviata, Act I, Scene 6

285

(2)

Romantic Opera in Germany

287

(6)

Richard Wagner (1813--1883)

287

(2)

Wagner's ``Music Dramas''

289

(3)

Listening Guide Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod

292

(1)

Late Nineteenth-Century Opera

293

(6)

Verismo Opera

293

(1)

Giacomo Puccini (1858--1924)

294

(1)

Listening Guide Puccini, La boheme, Aria

294

(5)

Late Romanticism

299

(21)

The Late Romantic Symphony and Concerto

299

(9)

Johannes Brahms (1833--1897)

300

(2)

Listening Guide Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Third movement

302

(1)

Listening Guide Brahms, Lullaby

303

(1)

Listening Guide Brahms, A German Requiem, Fourth movement

304

(1)

Antonin Dvorak (1841--1904)

305

(2)

Listening Guide Dvorak, Symphony No. 9, ``From the New World,'' Second movement

307

(1)

Late Romantic Program Music

308

(3)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840--1893)

308

(2)

Listening Guide Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet, Symphonic poem

310

(1)

The Orchestral Song

311

(9)

Gustav Mahler (1860--1911)

312

(3)

Listening Guide Mahler, I Am Lost to the World, Orchestral song

315

(5)

From Romantic to Modern: Impressionism

320

(13)

Impressionism in Painting and Music

320

(8)

Claude Debussy (1862--1918)

322

(2)

Listening Guide Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun

324

(4)

Listening Guide Debussy, Voiles (Sails), from Preludes, Book I

328

(1)

The Exotic in Music

328

(5)

Maurice Ravel (1875--1937)

328

(2)

Listening Guide Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole: Prelude to the Night, Habanera

330

(3)

The Twentieth Century

333

(44)

Modernism: Diversity and Experimentation

333

(3)

Twentieth Century Musical Style

336

(3)

Melody: More Angularity and Chromaticism

336

(1)

Harmony: More Dissonance, New Chords, New Systems

336

(1)

Rhythm: New Asymmetrical Rhythms and Irregular Meters

337

(1)

Tone Color: New Sounds from New Sources

338

(1)

The Early Avant-Garde: Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartok

339

(15)

Igor Stravinsky (1882--1971)

340

(4)

Listening Guide Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Introduction and Scenes 1--3

344

(1)

Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School

345

(3)

Listening Guide Schoenberg, Moonstruck Pierrot: Madonna, The Sick Moon

348

(2)

Listening Guide Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

350

(1)

Bela Bartok (1881--1945)

351

(3)

Listening Guide Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra: Broken Intermezzo

354

(1)

Three American Experimentalists: Ives, Varese, and Cage

354

(8)

Charles Ives (1883--1965)

355

(2)

Listening Guide Ives, The Fourth of July

357

(1)

Edgard Varese (1883--1965)

358

(1)

Listening Guide Varese, Ionization

359

(1)

John Cage (1912--1992)

359

(3)

``Listening Guide Cage, 4'33''

362

(1)

Three Traditionalists: Sergey Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

362

(9)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891--1953)

363

(1)

Listening Guide Prokofiev, Classical Symphony, First movement

364

(1)

Aaron Copland (1900--1990)

364

(3)

Listening Guide Copland, Appalachian Spring

367

(1)

Ellen Taafe Zwilich (b. 1939)

368

(1)

Listening Guide Zwilich, Concerto Grosso 1985, Third movement

369

(1)

John Adams (b. 1947)

370

(1)

Listening Guide Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

371

(1)

Back to the Future

371

(6)

John Tavener (b. 1944)

371

(1)

Listening Guide Tavener, Ikon of Light, ``Mystical Prayer''

372

(5)

American Popular Music: Blues, Jazz, Broadway, and Rock

377

(23)

Blues

377

(3)

Bessie Smith (1894--1937)

379

(1)

Listening Guide Smith, Lost Your Head Blues

380

(1)

Jazz

380

(10)

Ragtime: A Precursor of Jazz

381

(1)

New Orleans (Dixieland) Jazz

382

(1)

Louis Armstrong (1898--1971)

383

(1)

Listening Guide Armstrong's The Hot Fives, playing Hardin's Droppin' Shucks

384

(1)

Big Bands and Swing

384

(1)

Bebop

385

(1)

Charlie ``Bird'' Parker (1920--1955)

386

(1)

Listening Guide Parker et al., My Melancholy Baby

387

(1)

Jazz Styles Since 1950

387

(1)

Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)

388

(1)

Listening Guide Marsalis et al., In the Afterglow

389

(1)

George Gershwin: From Symphonic Jazz to Broadway

389

(1)

Listening Guide Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

390

(1)

Broadway

390

(3)

Leonard Bernstein (1918--1990)

391

(2)

Listening Guide Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

393

(1)

Rock

393

(7)

Contrasts: Western Music and Non-Western Music

400

(13)

Gamelan Music of Bali

400

(2)

Listening Guide Jaya Semara (Victorious Goddess of Love)

402

(1)

Music for a Chinese String Orchestra

402

(2)

Listening Guide Hua Yanjun, The Moon Mirrored in the Pool

403

(1)

Music for the Indian Sitar

404

(2)

Listening Guide Raga Jogeshwari, Gat II (Theme II)

405

(1)

Music in Southern Africa

406

(4)

Music as Social Expression

406

(1)

Importance of Rhythm

406

(1)

Importance of the Drums

407

(1)

Call and Response

407

(2)

Listening Guide People of Dagomba, Ghana, Kasuan Kura

409

(1)

Contrasts

410

(1)

Conclusion

411

(2)

Selected Web Resources

413

(10)

Glossary

423

(10)

Credits

433

(4)

Index

437

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