Useful for both non-music and music majors, this resource focuses on world music with a unique tradition-and-transformation emphasis that covers a wide range of music styles from traditional folk and classical genres to contemporary world beat, popular, jazz, and experimental mu…
[This] is a ... textbook for the beginning student of music history and appreciation, written in language readily understandable by a reader with no previous music experience. Throughout the text, music is presented in its broad cultural and historical context, never as a phenom…
"This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simpl…
In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order to hear its "plot"--Its story told in notes. The musical examples are available free for download to help you hear the ideas presented. --from publisher description
Musical knowledge is real when it becomes simply how you listen. Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the United States and Canada. …
Presents a guide to classical music, including information on the elements of classical music, classical music instruments, classical music in performance, the history of classical music, and the national schools of music that reflect their countries.
"The essential listener's guide to more than a thousand years of Western classical music ; Explains the elements and terminology of classical music in clear and simple terms ; Discusses the music and instruments of each period, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Baroq…
"The essential listener's guide to more than a thousand years of Western classical music ; Explains the elements and terminology of classical music in clear and simple terms ; Discusses the music and instruments of each period, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Baroq…
