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Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010.Edition: 7th brief edDescription: xxv, 455 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780078025099
  • 0078025095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 780 22
LOC classification:
  • MT90 .K342 2010
Contents:
pt. 1 Elements. Sound: pitch, dynamics, and tone color -- Performing media: voices and instruments -- Rhythm -- Music notation -- Melody -- Harmony -- Key -- Musical texture -- Musical form -- Musical style -- pt. 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) -- Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) -- pt. 3. The Baroque period. Baroque music (1600-1750) -- Music in baroque society -- The concerto grosso and ritornello form -- The fugue -- The elements of opera -- Opera in the baroque era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The baroque sonata -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The baroque suite -- The chorale and church cantata -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel -- pt. 4. The Classical Period. The classical style (1750-1820) -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and variations -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- pt. 5. The Romantic Period. Romanticism in music (1820-1900) -- Romantic composers and their public -- The art song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Clara Wieck Schumann -- Fr�ed�eric Chopin -- Franz Liszt -- Feliz Mendelssohn -- Program music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in nineteenth century music -- Antonin Dvo�r�ak -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Johannes Brahms -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- Richard Wagner -- pt. 6. The Twentieth Century and Beyond. Musical styles: 1900-1945 -- Music and musicians in society -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Neoclassicism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- B�ela Bart�ok -- Charles Ives -- George Gershwin -- William Grant Still -- Aaron Copland -- Alberto Ginastera -- Musical styles since 1945 -- Music since 1945: five representative pieces -- Jazz -- Music for stage and screen -- Rock -- pt. 7 Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures -- Music in sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical music of India.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1 Elements. Sound: pitch, dynamics, and tone color -- Performing media: voices and instruments -- Rhythm -- Music notation -- Melody -- Harmony -- Key -- Musical texture -- Musical form -- Musical style -- pt. 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) -- Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) -- pt. 3. The Baroque period. Baroque music (1600-1750) -- Music in baroque society -- The concerto grosso and ritornello form -- The fugue -- The elements of opera -- Opera in the baroque era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The baroque sonata -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The baroque suite -- The chorale and church cantata -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel -- pt. 4. The Classical Period. The classical style (1750-1820) -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and variations -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- pt. 5. The Romantic Period. Romanticism in music (1820-1900) -- Romantic composers and their public -- The art song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Clara Wieck Schumann -- Fr�ed�eric Chopin -- Franz Liszt -- Feliz Mendelssohn -- Program music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in nineteenth century music -- Antonin Dvo�r�ak -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Johannes Brahms -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- Richard Wagner -- pt. 6. The Twentieth Century and Beyond. Musical styles: 1900-1945 -- Music and musicians in society -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Neoclassicism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- B�ela Bart�ok -- Charles Ives -- George Gershwin -- William Grant Still -- Aaron Copland -- Alberto Ginastera -- Musical styles since 1945 -- Music since 1945: five representative pieces -- Jazz -- Music for stage and screen -- Rock -- pt. 7 Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures -- Music in sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical music of India.

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