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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »

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Music : an Appreciation, Brief Edition -text Only (6TH 08 Edition)

by Roger Kamien

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Publisher Comments:

Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music.

This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students attention on musical events as they unfold.

This edition moves most of the content of the companion multi-media CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center providing open access for all students to the many activities and video instrument demonstrations.

Synopsis:

This edition moves the content of the companion multi-media CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center providing open access for all students to the many activities, video instrument demonstrations, and additional recordings.
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About the Author

Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita.
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Table of Contents

Preface

Part I Elements

Performer Box: Roger Kamien's performance of Chopin's Prelude in E Minor

1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

Pitch: Highness or Lowness of Sound

Dynamics

Tone Color

Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound

The Firebird, Scene 2 by Igor StravinskyLISTENING OUTLINE

C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

LISTENING OUTLINE

2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

Voices

Musical Instruments

String Instruments
Woodwind Instruments
Brass Instruments
Percussion Instruments
Keyboard Instruments
Electronic Instruments

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34, by Benjamin Britten

LISTENING OUTLINE

3. Rhythm

Beat

Meter

Accent and Syncopation

Tempo

4. Music Notation

Notating Pitch

Notating Rhythm

Notating Silence (Rests)

Notating Meter

The Score

5. Melody

6. Harmony

Consonance and Dissonance

The Triad

Broken Chords (Arpegios)

Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No.4, by Frederic Chopin

LISTENING OUTLINE

PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Roger Kamien playing Chopin's Prelude in E Minor

7. Key

The Major Scale

The Minor Scale

The Key Signature

The Chromatic Scale

Modulation: Change of Key

Tonic Key

8. Musical Texture

Monophonic Texture

Polyphonic Texture

Homophonic Texture

Changes of Texture

Farandole from L'Arlesienne (The Woman from Arles) Suite No.2, by Georges Bizet

LISTENING OUTLINE

9. Musical Form

Techniques That Create Musical Form

Repetition
Contrast
Variation

Types of Musical Form

Three-Part (Ternary) Form: A B A
Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker Suite, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

LISTENING OUTLINE

Two-Part (Binary) Form: A B
Contradance No. 7 in E Flat from Twelve Contradances for Orchestra, by Ludwig van Beethoven

LISTENING OUTLINE

Listening for Form

10. Musical Style

Part II The Middle Ages And Renaissance

Performer Box: Andrew Parrott

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

Gregorian Chant

The Church Modes

Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We have seen his star)

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

O Successores (You successors) by Hildegard of Bingen

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

Secular Music in the Middle Ages

Estampie

The Development of Polyphony: Organum

School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm

Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France

Guilaume de Machaut

Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous (Since I am forgotten by you

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

Notre Dame Mass: Agnus Dei

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Andrew Parrott conducting the Agnus Dei from Machaut's Notre Dame Mass

2. Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)

Characteristics of Renaissance Music

Word and Music
Texture
Rhythm and Melody

Sacred Music in the Renaissance

Josquin Desprez and the Renaissance Motet
Ave Maria...virgo serena (Hail Mary...serene virgin

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

Palestrina and the Renaissance Mass
Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie

Secular Music in the Renaissance

Vocal Music: The Renaissance Madrigal
As Vesta Was Descending, by Thomas Weelkes

VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

Instrumental Music

Passamezzo and Galiard, by Pierre Fransisque Caroubel, from Terpsichore, by Michael Praetorius

Part III The Baroque Period

Performer Box: Jeanne Lamon

1. Baroque Music (1600-1750)

Characteristics of Baroque Music

Unity of Mood
Rhythm
Melody
Dynamics
Texture
Chords and the Basso Continuo (Figured Bass)
Words and Music

The Baroque Orchestra

Baroque Forms

2. Music In Baroque Society

3. The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form

Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach: First Movement

LISTENING OUTLINE

4. The Fugue

Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue), by Johann Sebastian Bach

LISTENING OUTLINE

5. The Elements Of Opera

6. Opera In The Baroque Era

7. Claudio Monteverdi

Orfeo (Orpheus)

VOCAL MUSIC

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780073401348
Subtitle:
An Appreciation
Author:
Kamien, Roger
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Subject:
Appreciation
Subject:
Instruction & Study - Appreciation
Subject:
Music appreciation
Subject:
kamien, music, an appreciation brief edition, music, appreciation, music appreciation, grade 11, grade 12
Subject:
kamien, music, an appreciation brief edition, music, appreciation, music app
Subject:
reciation, grade 11, grade 12
Copyright:
2008
Edition Number:
6
Edition Description:
Brief Edition
Series:
Music: An Appreciation
Publication Date:
February 2007
Binding:
Paper Textbook
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
9.83x7.99x.65 in. 1.83 lbs.
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