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Music Listening Today (with CD)

by: Hoffer, Charles

Music Listening Today (with CD)

by: Hoffer, Charles

ISBN 13:
9780495090762
ISBN 10:
049509076X
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/01/2006
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

Charles Hoffer's best-selling MUSIC LISTENING TODAY is a complete course solution that develops students' listening skills while teaching them to appreciate the different styles, forms, and genres of music. This affordable, brief, chronological survey text features two CDs-automatically included with new copies of the book at no additional cost-that contain the text's core music selections. It also features CengageNOW, an online multimedia tool that helps students hone their listening skills while it aids instructors in organizing and managing their courses. As in previous editions, MUSIC LISTENING TODAY provides dozens of familiar and less familiar selections-all carefully chosen for their ability to get students interested in listening to all kinds of music. The text's modular format lets instructors teach in any way they choose.

Preface

xvi

PART I The Nature of Music

(47)

Music Listening and You

(8)

Different Types of Music

(1)

``Classical'' Music: Music for Listening

(1)

Ordinary Music and Extraordinary Music

(1)

``I Know What I Like''

(1)

Learning to Listen

(3)

Listening and Studying

(1)

Getting Started: The Theme from Star Wars

(1)

Listening Guide Williams: Main Title from Star Wars

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 1--3

John Williams

(1)

``Connecting the Dots''

(1)

The Goals of Music Appreciation

(1)

Coda

(1)

Rhythm

(6)

Beat: The Music's Pulse

(1)

Meter: The Patterns of Beats

(1)

The Notation of Rhythm

(1)

Syncopation

(1)

Tempo: The Speed of Beats

(1)

Rhythm in Bizet's Farandole

(1)

Georges Bizet

(1)

Listening Guide Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 4--6

Polyrhythm

(1)

Listening Guide African Music: ``Mitamba Yalagala Kumchuzi''

(1)

CD 3 Track 1

Coda

(1)

Melody and Harmony

(8)

Pitch: The High and Low of Sounds

(1)

Melody: Pitches in a Cohesive Series

(1)

Pitches in Music Notation

(1)

Features of Melodies

(1)

Listening Guide Copland: ``Simple Gifts''

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 7--8

Aaron Copland

(1)

What Affects the Impression of a Melody?

(1)

Counterpoint: Melodies Sounded Together

(1)

Harmony: Pitches Sounded Together

(2)

Texture and the Ways Pitches Are Used

(1)

Listening Guide Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 4--6

Coda

(1)

Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization

(6)

Dynamics: The Loud and Soft of Music

(1)

Timbre: Color in Music

(2)

Organization: Organized Sounds = Music

(1)

Form: Planning in Music

(1)

Genre and Movements

(1)

Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

(1)

Joaquin Rodrigo

(1)

Listening Guide Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Second Movement

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 9--12

Coda

(1)

Orchestral Instruments

(9)

String Instruments

(2)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Basic Timbre

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Woodwind Instruments

(2)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Basic Timbre

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Brass Instruments

(1)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Sound

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Percussion Instruments

(2)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Sound

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Listening for Instruments

(1)

Coda

(1)

Other Musical Instruments

(9)

The Voice

(1)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Basic Timbre

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Types of Voices

(1)

Rutter's ``Open Thou Mine Eyes''

(1)

John Rutter

(1)

Listening Guide Rutter: ``Open Thou Mine Eyes''

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 13--14

Wind Band Instruments

(1)

Traditional Keyboard Instruments

(2)

Harpsichord

(1)

Piano

(1)

Pipe Organ

(1)

Sound Production

(1)

Modifying Basic Timbre

(1)

Regulating Pitch

(1)

Starting and Stopping Sounds

(1)

Changing Dynamic Level

(1)

Folk Instruments

(2)

Aerophones

(1)

Ideophones

(1)

Membranophones

(1)

Chordophones

(1)

Popular Instruments

(1)

Guitar

(1)

Accordion

(1)

Electronic Instruments

(1)

Coda

(1)

PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music

(26)

Early Western Music

(6)

Ancient Greek and Roman Times

(1)

The Middle Ages

(1)

Music in the Middle Ages

(1)

The Mass and Its Music

(1)

Gregorian Chant

(1)

Listening Guide Anonymous: ``Dies irae''

(1)

Hildegard's Ordo virtutum

(1)

CD 1 Track 15

Listening Guide Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum, excerpt from Scene 4

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 2--3

Hildegard of Bingen

(1)

Coda

(1)

Medieval Music

(7)

Medieval Times

(1)

Polyphony

(2)

Perotin's ``Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia''

(1)

Listening Guide Perotin: ``Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia''

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 4--6

Leonin and Perotin

(1)

The Medieval Motet

(1)

Music in the Rest of Europe

(1)

Secular Music

(1)

Listening Guide Anonymous: Estampie

(1)

CD 3 Track 7

Features of Medieval Music

(1)

Coda

(1)

Renaissance Music

(11)

The Renaissance Outlook

(2)

Features and Types of Renaissance Music

(1)

Josquin Des Prez

(1)

The Renaissance Mass

(1)

Listening Guide Josquin: Kyrie from Pange lingua Mass

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 8--10

The Renaissance Motet

(1)

Listening Guide Palestrina: ``Sicut cervus,'' Part I

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 16--18

Palestrina's ``Sicut cervus''

(1)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

(1)

The Madrigal

(2)

Weelkes's ``As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending''

(1)

Listening Guide Weelkes: ``As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending''

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 19--20

Thomas Weelkes

(1)

Renaissance Instrumental Music

(1)

Features of Renaissance Music

(1)

Coda

(1)

PART III Baroque Music

(44)

The Baroque Period

(10)

Styles in Music

(1)

Characteristics of Baroque Style

(1)

Grandiose Dimensions

(1)

Love of Drama

(1)

Religious Intensity

(1)

Baroque Art

(2)

Baroque Intellectual Activity

(1)

Early Baroque Music

(1)

Music in the Baroque

(2)

Performance of Baroque Music

(1)

Characteristics of Baroque Music

(2)

Homophony

(1)

Recitative

(1)

Metrical Rhythm

(1)

Major/Minor Keys

(1)

Tonal Center

(1)

Modulation

(1)

Doctrine of Affections

(1)

Handel's ``The Voice of Him That Crieth in the Wilderness'' from Messiah

(1)

Listening Guide Handel: ``The Voice of Him That Crieth in the Wilderness''

(1)

CD 1 Track 21

Features of Baroque Instrumental Music

(1)

Tuning

(1)

Terraced Dynamics

(1)

Continuo

(1)

Coda

(1)

Oratorio and Cantata

(9)

Oratorio

(1)

Handel's Messiah

(1)

Aria

(2)

``Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted'' from Messiah

(1)

Listening Guide Handel: ``Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted'' from Messiah

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 22--23

Chorus

(1)

George Frideric Handel

(1)

``Hallelujah Chorus'' from Messiah

(1)

Listening Guide Handel: ``Hallelujah Chorus'' from Messiah

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 24--26

Chorale

(1)

Cantata

(1)

Bach's Cantata No. 140

(1)

Listening Guide Bach: Chorale (Section 7) from Cantata No. 140

(1)

CD 3 Track 11

Other Types of Baroque Vocal Music

(1)

Listening Guide Bach: ``Zion Hears the Watchmen'' (Section 4) from Cantata No. 140

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 27--28

Coda

(1)

Opera in the Baroque

(7)

The Elements of Opera

(2)

Voices and Roles

(1)

Ensembles

(1)

The Orchestra

(1)

The Libretto

(1)

Staging

(1)

Operatic Conventions

(1)

Enjoying Opera

(1)

Claudio Monteverdi

(1)

Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea

(1)

Listening Guide Monteverdi: Recitative from The Coronation of Poppea, Act I, Scene 1

(1)

CD 3 Track 12

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

100

(1)

Listening Guide Purcell: ``Dido's Lament'' from Dido and Aeneas

100

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 13--14

Henry Purcell

101

(1)

Coda

101

(1)

Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata

102

(7)

Baroque Instruments

102

(1)

Pachelbel's Canon in D

103

(1)

Listening Guide Pachelbel: Canon in D

103

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 15--17

Johann Pachelbel

104

(1)

The Suite

105

(1)

Handel's ``Hornpipe'' from Water Music Suite

105

(1)

Listening Guide Handel: ``Hornpipe'' from Water Music

105

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 18--19

The Sonata

106

(1)

Corelli's Trio Sonata

106

(1)

Listening Guide Corelli: Trio Sonata in F, Op. 3, No. 1, Second Movement

106

(1)

CD 3 Track 20

Arcangelo Corelli

107

(1)

Listening Guide Corelli: Trio Sonata in F, Op. 3, No. 1, Third Movement

107

(1)

CD 3 Track 21

Other Baroque Composers

108

(1)

Coda

108

(1)

Baroque Instrumental Music: Concerto and Fugue

109

(9)

The Concerto Grosso

109

(1)

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

109

(1)

Listening Guide Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Third Movement

110

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 22--24

Antonio Vivaldi

111

(1)

Vivaldi's Concerto ``Spring'' from The Four Seasons

111

(1)

The Fugue

111

(1)

Listening Guide Vivaldi: ``Spring'' from The Four Seasons, First Movement

112

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 29--33

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

113

(1)

Other Keyboard Forms

113

(1)

Listening Guide Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

114

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 34--37

Johann Sebastian Bach

115

(1)

Features of Baroque Music

116

(1)

Coda

117

(1)

PART IV Classical Music

118

(50)

Classicism and Classical Music

120

(5)

Cultural Setting

120

(1)

Four Leaders

120

(1)

Architecture

121

(1)

Philosophy

121

(1)

Toward Classicism: The Rococo Style

121

(1)

Classical Art

122

(1)

Characteristics of Classical Music

122

(1)

Features to Listen for in Classical Music

123

(1)

Melody

123

(1)

Homophony

123

(1)

Harmony

124

(1)

Rhythm

124

(1)

Dynamic Levels

124

(1)

Performance

124

(1)

Forms

124

(1)

Coda

124

(1)

Sonata Form

125

(7)

Development in Musical Works

125

(1)

Mozart's Symphony No. 40, K. 550

125

(1)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

126

(1)

The Plan of Sonata Form

126

(3)

Exposition

127

(1)

Development

128

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart: Symphony No. 40, First Movement

129

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 38--42

Recapitulation

130

(1)

Other Aspects of Sonata Form

131

(1)

Coda

131

(1)

The Concerto

132

(6)

The Solo Concerto

132

(1)

Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219

132

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, First Movement

133

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 25--30

The Second Movement of Concertos

134

(1)

Rondo Form

134

(1)

Haydn's Trumpet Concerto

135

(1)

Listening Guide Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat, Third Movement

135

(1)

CD 1 Tracks 43--45

Franz Joseph Haydn

136

(1)

Coda

137

(1)

Classical Opera

138

(6)

The Development of Opera

138

(1)

Mozart's Operas

138

(1)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

138

(2)

Listening Guide Mozart: Don Giovanni, excerpt from Act II, Scene 5

140

(3)

CD 1 Tracks 46--49

Coda

143

(1)

Chamber Music

144

(7)

The Nature of Chamber Music

144

(1)

Listening to Chamber Music

144

(1)

Chamber Music in the Classical Period

145

(1)

The Sonata

145

(1)

The String Quartet

146

(1)

Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 (``Emperor'')

146

(1)

Other Types of Chamber Music Groups

146

(1)

Listening Guide Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, ``Emperor,'' Third Movement

147

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 31--32

Mozart's Clarinet Quintet

148

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Fourth Movement

149

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 33--38

Coda

150

(1)

Piano Sonatas

151

(7)

The Sonata

151

(1)

The Piano

151

(1)

Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11

152

(1)

Listening Guide Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331, Third Movement, ``Rondo alla Turca''

152

(1)

CD 3 Tracks 39--43

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 (``Waldstein'')

153

(1)

First Movement

153

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53, ``Waldstein,'' First Movement

154

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 1--5

Ludwig van Beethoven

155

(2)

Second Movement

156

(1)

Third Movement

156

(1)

Coda

157

(1)

The Symphony and Beethoven

158

(10)

The Symphony

158

(1)

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5

158

(2)

First Movement

159

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, First Movement

160

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 1--5

Second Movement

161

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Second Movement

162

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 6--10

Third Movement

163

(1)

Fourth Movement

163

(1)

Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Third Movement

164

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 11--14

Listening Guide Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Fourth Movement

165

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 15--18

Appreciating Beethoven's Music

166

(1)

Features of Classical Music

166

(1)

Coda

167

(1)

PART V Romantic Music

168

(72)

Romance and Romanticism

170

(6)

Characteristics of Romanticism

170

(3)

Romantic Art

173

(1)

The Split Personality of Romanticism

173

(2)

Coda

175

(1)

Early Romantic Music

176

(8)

What to Listen For in Romantic Music

176

(1)

The Art Song

176

(2)

Schubert's ``Der Erlkonig''

178

(1)

Franz Schubert

178

(1)

Listening Guide Schubert: ``Der Erlkonig''

179

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 6--8

Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Fourth Movement

180

(1)

Listening Guide Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 (``Italian''), Fourth Movement

180

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 19--22

Felix Mendelssohn & Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

181

(1)

Where Are the Women Composers?

182

(1)

Solo and Chamber Music

182

(1)

Coda

183

(1)

Romantic Piano Music

184

(9)

Character Pieces

184

(1)

Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat

185

(1)

Listening Guide Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2

185

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 23--24

Frederic Chopin

186

(1)

Virtuoso Music

187

(1)

Liszt's La Campanella

187

(1)

Listening Guide Liszt: La Campanella

188

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 9--10

Niccolo Paganini & Franz Liszt

189

(1)

Robert Schumann & Clara Wieck Schumann

190

(1)

Clara Schumann's Scherzo, Op. 10

191

(1)

Listening Guide Clara Schumann: Scherzo, Op. 10 in D Minor

191

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 25--27

Coda

192

(1)

Program and Ballet Music

193

(10)

Nature of Program Music

193

(1)

Types of Program Music

193

(1)

Concert Overture

193

(1)

Incidental Music

194

(1)

Tone Poem

194

(1)

Program Symphony

194

(1)

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

194

(3)

Hector Berlioz

197

(1)

Listening Guide Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, Fifth Movement

198

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 11--15

Richard Strauss

198

(1)

Ballet and Ballet Music

199

(1)

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker

199

(1)

The Development of Ballet

200

(1)

Listening Guide Tchaikovsky: ``Waltz of the Flowers'' from The Nutcracker

201

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 28--30

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

202

(1)

Coda

202

(1)

Romantic Opera

203

(11)

The Italian Style

203

(1)

Verdi's Rigoletto

203

(1)

Puccini's La boheme

203

(1)

Listening Guide Verdi: ``La donna e mobile'' from Rigoletto

204

(1)

CD 4 Track 31

Giuseppe Verdi & Giacomo Puccini

205

(1)

Listening Guide Puccini: La boheme, excerpt from Act I

206

(2)

CD 2 Tracks 16--17

The French Style

208

(1)

The German Style

209

(1)

Wagner's Music Dramas

209

(1)

Wagner's Gotterdammerung

210

(1)

Listening Guide Wagner: Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung

211

(2)

CD 4 Tracks 32--40

Richard Wagner

213

(1)

Coda

213

(1)

Late Romantic Music

214

(10)

Brahms's Symphony No. 4

214

(1)

First Movement

214

(1)

Listening Guide Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, First Movement

215

(2)

CD 2 Tracks 18--22

Second, Third, and Fourth Movements

217

(1)

Brahms's A German Requiem

217

(1)

Johannes Brahms

218

(1)

Listening Guide Brahms: A German Requiem, Part IV, ``How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place''

219

(1)

CD 4 Tracks 41--43

Dvorak's American String Quartet in F Major

220

(1)

First Movement

220

(1)

Antonin Dvorak

220

(1)

Listening Guide Dvorak: American Quartet, First Movement

221

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 1--5

Second, Third, and Fourth Movements

221

(1)

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4

222

(1)

Listening Guide Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36, Fourth Movement

222

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 6--9

Coda

223

(1)

Nationalism

224

(8)

Characteristics of Nationalism

224

(1)

The Russian Five

224

(1)

Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

225

(1)

Listening Guide Mussorgsky: Coronation scene from Boris Godunov

226

(2)

CD 5 Tracks 10--13

Modest Mussorgsky

228

(1)

Bohemia

228

(1)

Smetana's Moldau

228

(1)

Listening Guide Smetana: The Moldau from Ma vlast

229

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 14--18

Bedrich Smetana

230

(1)

Other Nationalistic Composers

230

(1)

Norway

230

(1)

Finland

230

(1)

England

230

(1)

Italy

231

(1)

Spain

231

(1)

France

231

(1)

United States

231

(1)

Coda

231

(1)

Impressionism and Post-Romanticism

232

(8)

Characteristics of Impressionism

232

(2)

Debussy's ``Clair de lune''

234

(1)

Listening Guide Debussy: ``Clair de lune''

234

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 23--25

Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2

235

(1)

Listening Guide Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2, ``Lever du jour'' (``Daybreak'')

235

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 19--21

Debussy, Ravel, & Rachmaninoff

236

(1)

Post-Romanticism

237

(1)

Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

237

(1)

Listening Guide Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

238

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 22--26

Features of Romantic Music

239

(1)

Coda

239

(1)

PART VI Twentieth-Century Music

240

(42)

Music in the Twentieth Century

242

(6)

The Tremendous and Tumultuous Century

242

(1)

Twentieth-Century Art

243

(1)

Describing Twentieth-Century Music

244

(1)

What to Listen For in Twentieth-Century Music

244

(3)

Rhythm

244

(1)

Melody

245

(1)

Harmony and Counterpoint

245

(1)

Dissonance

246

(1)

Timbre

246

(1)

Form

246

(1)

Sources

246

(1)

Coda

247

(1)

The Mainstream

248

(9)

Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

248

(1)

First, Second, and Third Movements

248

(1)

Fourth Movement

249

(1)

Listening Guide Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Fourth Movement

249

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 26--28

Bela Bartok

250

(1)

Fifth Movement

250

(1)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras

250

(1)

Listening Guide Villa-Lobos: Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

251

(1)

CD 5 Tracks 27--29

Heitor Villa-Lobos

252

(1)

Britten's War Requiem

252

(1)

Listening Guide Britten: Dies irae from War Requiem, excerpt from beginning

253

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 29--30

Benjamin Britten

254

(1)

Other Mainstream Composers

255

(1)

Russia

255

(1)

England

255

(1)

France

255

(1)

Lili and Nadia Boulanger

255

(1)

Latin America

256

(1)

Coda

256

(1)

Expressionism and Primitivism

257

(9)

Expressionism

257

(1)

Berg's Wozzeck

258

(1)

Listening Guide Berg: Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 2

259

(2)

CD 5 Tracks 30--31

Alban Berg

261

(1)

Primitivism

261

(1)

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

262

(1)

Listening Guide Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, excerpts from Act I

263

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 31--33

Igor Stravinsky

264

(1)

What Is Beautiful? What Is Fascinating?

265

(1)

Coda

265

(1)

Neoclassicism and Tone Row Music

266

(9)

Neoclassical Style

266

(1)

Neoclassicism in Music

266

(1)

Prokofiev's Classical Symphony

267

(1)

Sergei Prokofiev

267

(1)

First Movement

268

(1)

Listening Guide Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Op. 25, First Movement

268

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 1--4

Second Movement

268

(1)

Third Movement

269

(1)

Fourth Movement

269

(1)

Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik

269

(1)

Paul Hindemith

269

(1)

Listening Guide Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik fur Funf Blaser, Op. 24, No. 2, Fifth Movement

270

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 5--6

Other Neoclassical Works

271

(1)

Tone Row Music

271

(1)

Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra

271

(1)

Arnold Schoenberg

272

(1)

Listening Guide Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra excerpt

273

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 7--8

Serialism: Beyond Tone Rows

273

(1)

Coda

274

(1)

New Sounds and New Techniques

275

(7)

Extensions of Serialism

275

(1)

Chance Music

275

(1)

Electronic Music

276

(1)

Varese's Poeme electronique

277

(1)

Listening Guide Varese: Poeme electronique, beginning

278

(1)

CD 2 Track 34

Edgard Varese

278

(1)

Eclecticism

279

(1)

Crumb's Night of the Four Moons

279

(1)

George Crumb

279

(1)

Listening Guide Crumb: ``The moon is dead, dead . . .'' from Night of the Four Moons

280

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 9--10

Coda: The Twenty-First Century

280

(1)

Features of Twentieth-Century Music

281

(1)

PART VII Music in the United States

282

(56)

American Music before 1920

284

(10)

Art in America

284

(1)

The Eighteenth Century

285

(2)

America's Patriotic Songs

287

(1)

The Nineteenth Century

288

(1)

The Early Twentieth Century

289

(1)

Sousa and Wind Band Music

289

(1)

Listening Guide Sousa: ``The Stars and Stripes Forever''

290

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 11--13

John Philip Sousa

291

(1)

Ives's Symphony No. 2

291

(1)

Listening Guide Ives: Symphony No. 2, Fifth Movement

292

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 14--18

Charles Ives

293

(1)

Coda

293

(1)

Concert Music since 1920

294

(9)

Nationalism

294

(1)

Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man

295

(1)

Listening Guide Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

296

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 19--20

Copland's Appalachian Spring

297

(1)

Listening Guide Copland: Appalachian Spring, Section 7

298

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 35--37

Neoclassicism

299

(1)

Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985

299

(1)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

299

(1)

Listening Guide Zwilich: Concerto Grosso 1985, First Movement

300

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 38--39

Minimalism

300

(1)

Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine

301

(1)

Listening Guide Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

301

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 21--22

John Adams

302

(1)

Coda

302

(1)

Popular Music and Jazz to 1950

303

(1)

Popular Music before 1850

303

(1)

Foster's ``Beautiful Dreamer''

304

(1)

Listening Guide Foster: ``Beautiful Dreamer''

304

(11)

CD 6 Track 23

Stephen Foster

305

(1)

Toward Tin Pan Alley and Ragtime

305

(1)

Tin Pan Alley

306

(1)

Ragtime

306

(1)

Scott Joplin

306

(1)

Listening Guide Joplin: ``Maple Leaf Rag''

307

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 24--27

Blues

308

(1)

Smith's ``Lost Your Head Blues''

308

(1)

Listening Guide Smith: ``Lost Your Head Blues''

308

(1)

CD 6 Track 28

Bessie Smith

309

(1)

Jazz

309

(2)

Elements of Jazz

309

(1)

Types of Jazz

310

(1)

Listening Guide Armstrong: ``Come Back, Sweet Papa''

311

(1)

CD 6 Track 29

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

312

(2)

Listening Guide Ellington: ``Take the `A' Train''

314

(1)

CD 2 Tracks 40--41

Coda

314

(1)

Popular Music since 1950

315

(12)

The Popular Music Industry

315

(1)

Blues and Soul

316

(2)

Rhythm and Blues

317

(1)

Soul

318

(1)

Rap

318

(1)

Country Music

318

(1)

Characteristics of Country Music

318

(1)

Development of Country Music

319

(1)

Listening Guide Williams: ``Your Cheatin' Heart''

319

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 30--31

Types of Country Music

320

(1)

Rock

320

(3)

Characteristics of Rock

321

(1)

Developments in Rock since 1965

322

(1)

Music Videos

323

(1)

Other Types of Popular Music

323

(2)

Latin American

323

(1)

Modern Jazz

324

(1)

Brubeck's ``Blue Rondo a la Turk''

325

(1)

Listening Guide Brubeck: ``Blue Rondo a la Turk''

325

(1)

CD 6 Tracks 32--33

Coda

326

(1)

Music for Stage and Film

327

(11)

Early Concerts

327

(1)

Minstrel Shows

327

(1)

Vaudeville

327

(1)

Musical Comedy and Broadway Musicals

328

(1)

Bernstein's West Side Story

328

(1)

Listening Guide Bernstein: ``Tonight'' (Quintet) from West Side Story

329

(2)

CD 2 Tracks 42--44

Leonard Bernstein

331

(1)

Operatic Musicals

331

(1)

American Opera

332

(1)

Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

333

(1)

George Gershwin

333

(1)

Listening Guide Gershwin: ``Summertime'' from Porgy and Bess

334

(1)

CD 6 Track 34

Music for Films

335

(1)

Role

335

(1)

Development

335

(1)

Williams's Main Title from Star Wars

336

(1)

Music and Visual Images

337

(1)

Coda

337

(1)

PART VIII Music around the World

338

(29)

Folk and Ethnic Music

340

(5)

What Is Folk and Ethnic Music?

340

(1)

Knowing Folk and Ethnic Music

340

(1)

Influence of Folk and Ethnic Music

340

(1)

Reflecting Culture

341

(1)

The Global Village

341

(1)

How Are Folk and Ethnic Music Different?

341

(2)

Lack of Uniformity

341

(1)

Creation

342

(1)

Individual Changes

342

(1)

Importance of the Performers

342

(1)

Improvisation

342

(1)

Audience

342

(1)

Subtleties, Shadings, and Sophistication

343

(1)

Oral Tradition

343

(1)

Preservation

343

(1)

Music and Culture

343

(1)

Listening to Folk and Ethnic Music

344

(1)

Coda

344

(1)

Folk Music of Europe and the Americas

345

(9)

European Folk Music

345

(1)

Melody

345

(1)

Harmony

345

(1)

Timbre

345

(1)

Accompaniment

345

(1)

Form

346

(1)

Subject Matter

346

(1)

Rhythm

346

(1)

Listening Guide English Ballad: ``Barbara Allen''

346

(1)

CD 6 Track 35

American Folk Music

347

(2)

Work Songs

347

(1)

Occupational Songs

347

(1)

Dance Music

348

(1)

Self-Expression

349

(1)

Arrangements

349

(1)

Native American Music

349

(1)

African American Music

350

(2)

Calls and Hollers

350

(1)

Spirituals

350

(1)

Folk Blues

351

(1)

Work Songs

352

(1)

Instruments

352

(1)

Latin American Music

352

(1)

Listening Guide Mexican Folk Song: ``Sones de Hausteca''

353

(1)

CD 6 Track 36

Coda

353

(1)

Music of Africa and the Middle East

354

(6)

African Music

354

(3)

Relationship with Language

354

(1)

Association with Dance

354

(1)

Rhythm

355

(1)

Improvisation

355

(1)

Functional Music

356

(1)

Lack of Uniformity

356

(1)

Form

356

(1)

Melodic Characteristics

356

(1)

Beliefs about Music and Instruments

356

(1)

Instruments

357

(1)

Middle Eastern Music

357

(1)

Listening Guide Iran: ``Segah''

358

(1)

CD 6 Track 37

Jewish Music

358

(1)

Coda

359

(1)

Music of Asia

360

(7)

Indian Music

360

(2)

Ragas

360

(1)

Talas

361

(1)

Musical Instruments

361

(1)

Performances

362

(1)

Texture

362

(1)

Listening Guide India: ``Raga: Hansa-Dhwani''

362

(1)

CD 6 Track 38

Form

362

(1)

Cultural Outlook

363

(1)

Chinese Music

363

(1)

Japanese Music

364

(1)

Listening Guide Japan: ``Hakusen no''

365

(1)

CD 6 Track 39

Balinese Music

365

(1)

Listening Guide Bali (Indonesia): ``Gender Wajang''

366

(1)

CD 6 Track 40

Coda

366

(1)

Glossary

367

(5)

Listening Guides Indexed by Composer

372

(1)

Index of Composer Biographies

373

(1)

Index

374

(5)

Performers List

379

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