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Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: 88883768032 | McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher: Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw-Hill Education, 2014Edition: Eighth brief editionDescription: pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780077837310
  • 0077837312
  • 9781259158636
  • 1259158632
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 780 23
LOC classification:
  • MT90 .K342 2014
Contents:
Part 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. Part II: Middle ages and Renaissance. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) -- Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600). Part III: 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 te Baroque era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The Baroque Sonata -- Antionio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The Baroque Suite -- The Chorale and church cantata -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel. Part IV: The Classical Period. The classical style -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and Variation -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Joseph Hayden -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven. Part V: The Romantic Period. romanticism in Music (1820-1900) -- Romantic composers and their public -- The art song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Frederic Chopin -- Franz Liszt --Felix Mendelssohn -- Program Music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century music -- Antonin Dvorak -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Johannes Brahms -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- Richard Wagner.
Part VI: The Twentieth Century and beyond. Musical styles: 1900-1945 -- Music and Musicians in society since 1900 -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Neclassicism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg --Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Bela Bartok -- Music in America -- Amy Beach -- 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. Part VII: Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures -- Music in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical music of India.
Summary: McGraw-Hill is revolutionizing the Music Appreciation course by introducing its first personalized digital learning experience with Roger Kamiens Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition.
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Introduction to Music

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Includes index.

Part 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. Part II: Middle ages and Renaissance. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) -- Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600). Part III: 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 te Baroque era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The Baroque Sonata -- Antionio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The Baroque Suite -- The Chorale and church cantata -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel. Part IV: The Classical Period. The classical style -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and Variation -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Joseph Hayden -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven. Part V: The Romantic Period. romanticism in Music (1820-1900) -- Romantic composers and their public -- The art song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Frederic Chopin -- Franz Liszt --Felix Mendelssohn -- Program Music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century music -- Antonin Dvorak -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Johannes Brahms -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- Richard Wagner.

Part VI: The Twentieth Century and beyond. Musical styles: 1900-1945 -- Music and Musicians in society since 1900 -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Neclassicism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg --Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Bela Bartok -- Music in America -- Amy Beach -- 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. Part VII: Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures -- Music in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical music of India.

McGraw-Hill is revolutionizing the Music Appreciation course by introducing its first personalized digital learning experience with Roger Kamiens Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition.

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