Music: An Appreciation [Hardcover]

Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art of listening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learning the elements of music, fostering each students unique path to listening and understanding. This is achieved through step-by-step guidance as they learn the elements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate,and an enhanced McGraw-Hill Connect experience. As the authority in the Music Appreciation course, Kamien equips students with the language, tools and listening skills required to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.

Preface

Part I Elements

1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

3. Rhythm

4. Music Notation

5. Melody

6. Harmony

7. Key

8. Musical Texture

9. Musical Form

10. Performance  

11. Musical Style

Part II The Middle Ages

1. Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)

2. Gregorian Chant

3. Secular Music in the Midde Ages

4. The Development of Polyphony: Organum

5. Fourteenth -Century Music: The New Art in Italy and France

Part III The Renaissance 

1. Music in the Renaissance (1450 - 1600) 

2. Sacred Music in the Renaissance 

3. Secular Music in the Renaissance 

4. The Venetian School: From Renaissance to Baroque

1. Baroque Music (1600-1750)

2. Music In Baroque Society

3. The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form

4. The Fugue

5. The Elements Of Opera

6. Opera In The Baroque Era

7. Claudio Monteverdi

8. Henry Purcell

9. The Baroque Sonata

10. Arcangelo Corelli

11. Antonio Vivaldi

12. Johann ló¾