A music appreciation course for the development of listening skills. It analyses the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
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Rather than a chronological survey of musical history, this course focuses on the development of listening skills. Examines the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
In this course, Haverford College history of music professor Richard Freedman focuses on the development of solid listening skills.
In this course, Haverford College history of music professor Richard Freedman focuses on the development of solid listening skills.
Understanding the fundamentals of classical music
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A music appreciation course for the development of listening skills. It analyses the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
Rather than a chronological survey of musical history, this course focuses on the development of listening skills. Examines the fundamentals of sound, line, time and texture, as well as, formal schemes such as theme and variation, rondo, sonata, and fugue.
Enjoy a wide variety of musical styles from around the world while studying efficiently and doing well on your tests and quizzes. This book's program of resources will make listening critically easier. Refine your listening skills and expand your horizons while you learn about …
Enjoy a wide variety of musical styles from around the world while studying efficiently and doing well on your tests and quizzes. This book's program of resources will make listening critically easier. Refine your listening skills and expand your horizons while you learn about …
Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, this work draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources - philosophical, literary, political, and musical - to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. It is a reinterpretation of th…
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture, " and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purel…
The goal of this book is to trace the process by which purely instrumental music - music without a text and without any suggestion of an external program - came to be perceived as a vehicle of ideas in the decades around 1800, of just how and why the act of listening came to be …