| Description |
xvii, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
ch.1. The materials of music -- Music in the modern world -- Melody: musical line -- Harmony: musical space -- Rhythm: musical time -- Tempo: musical pace -- Dynamics: musical volume -- Instruments of the orchestra (I) -- Instruments of the orchestra (II) -- The orchestra -- Form: musical structure and design -- Musical style -- Musical notation -- ch. 2. Nineteenth-century Romanticism -- The Romantic Movement -- Romanticism in music -- The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Frédéric Franc̦ois Chopin -- Other short lyric works -- The nature of program music -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Hector Berlioz -- Franz Liszt -- Richard Strauss -- Nationalism and the Romantic Movement -- Nationalism and the symphonic poem -- The symphony -- Mendelssohn: 'Italian Symphony' -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Johannes Brahms -- The Concerto -- Mendelssohn: 'Violin Concerto' -- Schumann: 'Piano Concerto' -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- The nature of opera -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Richard Wagner -- Georges Bizet -- Modest Musorgsky -- Giacomo Puccini -- The nature of choral music -- Two coral masterpieces -- ch.3. More materials of music -- The organization of musical sounds: key and scale -- The major-minor system -- The development of themes: musical logic -- The sonata: the first movement -- The sonata continued: the other movements -- ch.4. Eighteenth-century Classicism -- The classical spirit -- Classicism in music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Classical chamber music -- From classic to romantic: Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony' -- ch. 5. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music -- Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture -- The remote past -- The later Middle Ages -- Early instrumental music -- The Renaissance -- Josquin des Prez -- Other sixteenth-century masters -- The Baroque -- Main currents in Baroque music -- Further aspects of Baroque music -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach (instrumental music) -- Johann Sebastian Bach (vocal music) -- George Frideric Handel -- From Baroque to Classical -- Aftermath of the Baroque: the Rococo -- ch.6. The twentieth century -- Transition to a new age -- Gustav Mahler -- Impressionism -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Main currents in twentieth-century music -- New elements of style -- Igor Stravinsky -- Béla Bartók -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Other modern Europeans -- ch.7. The American scene -- Music in the United States -- Charles Ives -- Edgard Varése -- Twentieth-century Americans / (I) -- Twentieth-century Americans / (II) -- New directions -- Composers of our time -- Appendices -- Suggested reading -- Comparative ranges of voices and instruments -- Complete list of composers, world events, and principal figures in literature and the arts, 1300-1983 -- The harmonic series -- Index |
| Summary |
An introduction to perceptive listening for the purpose of music appreciation |
| Analysis |
Music |
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Music - For music appreciation |
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Music. - For music appreciation |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-614) and index |
| Subject |
Music appreciation.
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Music.
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| LC no. |
85210080 |
| ISBN |
0393952975 (hardback) |
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9780393952971 (hardback) |
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