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…
In his many tears of teaching and writing about music Professor Ferguson has given much thought to the question of the why of music -- why does music affect us as it does, why are we deeply moved by some music by not by other music, what is it about music.
"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…
