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
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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. …
"Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher …
This book grew from a simple question. Why did French audiences become silent? Eighteenth-century travelers' accounts of the Paris Opera and memoirs of concertgoers describe a busy, preoccupied public, at times loud and at others merely sociable, but seldom deeply attentive.
Music perception
by Popper, Arthur N., Fay, Richard R., Jones, Mari Riess
fromSpringer handbook of auditory research
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Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik Wallrup explores this extremely vague and elu…
Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hea…
"Music research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies ... drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields ... that illuminate the musical nature of our…
Provides music educators with practical ideas for facilitating student music listening skill development. Written both for in-service and pre-service music educators, the book shows how to facilitate PK-12 students' listening skills using multisensory means in general music and …
