Synopses & Reviews
'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 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.'
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.'
Table of Contents
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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 Stravinsky LISTENING 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\''
Reading Group Guide
Act 1: From Mimi's entrance through Che gelida manina
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Tenor Luciano Pavarotti singing the part of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme18. Richard WagnerWagner's MusicDie Walkure (The Valkyrie)VOCAL MUSIC
'\'Dido\\\'s Lament
9. The Baroque Sonata Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op.3, No.10, by Arcangelo Corelli 10. Antonio Vivaldi La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op.8, No.1, from The Four Seasons LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Violinist Jeanne Lamon plays and conducts Vivaldi\\\'s \\\'Spring\\\' Concerto 11. Johann Sebastian Bach Bach\\\'s Music 12. The Baroque Suite Suite No.3 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach 13. The Chorale And Church Cantata The Church Cantata Cantata No.140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake, a voice is calling us) by Johann Sebastian Bach VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Fourth Movement; Seventh Movement 14. The Oratorio 15. George Frideric Handel Handel\\\'s Music Messiah VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Ev\\\'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted; Hallelujah Chorus Part IV The Classical Period Performer Box: Murray Perahia 1. The Classical Style (1750-1820) Characteristics of the Classical Style Contrast of Mood Rhythm Texture Melody Dynamics and the Piano The End of the Basso Continuo The Classical Orchestra Classical Forms 2. Composer, Patron, And Public In The Classical Period Vienna 3. Sonata Form Exposition Development Recapitulation Coda Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 4. Theme And Variations Symphony No.94 in G Major (Surprise), by Joseph Haydn: Second Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 5. Minuet And Trio Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 6. Rondo String Quartet in C Minor, Op.18, No.4, by Ludwig van Beethoven: Fourth Movement LISTENING OUTLINE 7. The Classical Symphony 8. The Classical Concerto 9. Classical Chamber Music 10. Joseph Hadyn Haydn\\\'s Music Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major: Third Movement 11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart\\\'s Music Don Giovanni Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene Act 1: Madamina (Leporello\\\'s catalog aria) Symphony No.40 in G. Minor, K.550 Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major, K.488 LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Murray Perahia playing and conducting the first movement of Mozart\\\'s Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 12. Ludwig Van Beethoven Beethoven\\\'s Music Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op.13 (Pathetique) Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67 LISTENING OUTLINES: First Movement; Second Movement Part V The Romantic Period Performer Box: Pavarotti 1. Romanticism In Music (1820-1900) Characteristics of Romantic Music Individuality of Style Expressive Aims and Subjects Nationalism and Exoticism Program Music Expressive Tone Color Colorful Harmony Expanded Range of Dynamics, Pitch, and Tempo Forms: Miniature and Monumental 2. Romantic Composers And Their Public 3. The Art Song Strophic and Through-Composed Form The Song Cycle 4. Franz Schubert Schubert\\\'s Music Erlkonig (The Erlking) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE 5. Robert Schumann Robert Schumann\\\'s Music Carnaval 6. Clara Wieck Schumann Clara Wieck Schumann\\\'s Music Liebst du um Schonheit (If you love for beauty) VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE 7. Frédéric Chopin Chopin\\\'s Music Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.9, No.2 LISTENING OUTLINE Etude in C Minor, Op.9, No.12 LISTENING OUTLINE Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op.53 8. Franz Liszt Liszt\\\'s Music Transcendental Etude No.10 in F Minor 9. Felix Mendelssohn Mendelssohn\\\'s Music Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op.64: First Movement 10. Program Music 11. Hector Berlioz Berlioz\\\'s Music Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony) LISTENING OUTLINE: Fourth Movement 12. Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music The Moldau, by Bedrich Smetana LISTENING OUTLINE 13. Antonin Dvorak Symphony No.9 in E Minor (From the New World) LISTENING OUTLINE 14. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky\\\'s Music Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy 15. Johannes Brahms Brahm\\\'s Music Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op. 90 LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Movement 16. Giuseppe Verdi Verdi\\\'s Music Rigoletto 17. Giacomo Puccini La Boheme VOCAL MUSIC \''
Act I, Love Scene, Conclusion
Part VI The Twentieth CenturyPerformer Box: Bessie Smith1. Musical Styles: 1900-19501900-1945: An Age of Musical DiversityCharacteristics of Twentieth-Century MusicTone ColorHarmony(Consonance and dissonance; New chord structures)Alternatives to the Traditional Tonal SystemRhythmMelody2. Music and Musicians in Society3. Impressionism and SymbolismFrench Impressionist PaintingFrench Symbolist Poetry4. Claude DebussyDebussy's MusicPrelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to The Afternoon of a FaunLISTENING OUTLINE5. Neoclassicism6. Igor StravinskyStravinsky's MusicLe Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)LISTENING OUTLINE: Part I, Introduction, Omens of Spring--Dances of the Youths and Maidens, Ritual of Abduction7. Expressionism8. Arnold SchoenbergSchoenberg's MusicAtonalityThe Twelve-Tone SystemPierrot lunaire, Op.21VOCAL MUSIC
'Act 1: From Mimi\'s entrance through Che gelida manina
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Tenor Luciano Pavarotti singing the part of Rodolfo in Puccini\'s La Boheme 18. Richard Wagner Wagner\'s Music Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) VOCAL MUSIC '
Tu se morta (You are dead)
8. Henry Purcell Ground Bass Dido and Aeneas VOCAL MUSIC