Listening to music / Craig Wright

Author: Wright, Craig M.
Published: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Schirmer, [2008]
Copyright Date: ©2008
Edition: 5th ed.
Physical Description: xxvi, 477 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, music ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

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Contents

PART I: THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: Listening to music -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Harmony -- Dynamics and color -- Form -- Musical style -- PART II: THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, 476-1600: Medieval music, 476-1475 -- Renaissance music, 1475-1600 -- PART III: THE BAROQUE PERIOD, 1600-1750: Introduction to Baroque art and music -- Early Baroque vocal music -- Middle Baroque instrumental music -- The Late Baroque: Bach -- The Late Baroque: Handel -- PART IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1750-1820: Classical style -- Classical composers: Haydn and Mozart -- Classical forms: ternary and sonata--allegro -- Classical forms: themes and variations, rondo -- Classical genres: instrumental music -- Classical genres: vocal music -- Beethoven: bridge to Romanticism -- PART V: ROMANTICISM, 1820-1900: Introduction to Romanticism -- Early romantic music: the art song -- Early romantic music: program music -- Early romantic music: piano music -- Romantic opera: Italy -- Romantic opera: Germany -- Nineteenth-Century realistic opera -- Music and nationalism -- Late romantic orchestral music -- PART VI: MODERN AND POSTMODERN ART MUSIC, 1880-PRESENT: Impressionism -- Exoticism -- Modernism in music and the arts -- Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism -- Russian and Eastern European Modernism -- Three American voices -- Postmodernism -- PART VII: AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: Blues and early Jazz -- Postwar Jazz -- Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway Musical -- Rock: music of rebellion.

Subject(s)

Music appreciation

ISBN

0495189731 (pbk.)
9780495189732 (pbk.)

Note

Includes index.

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