Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 5/e
Roger Kamien,
Hebrew University
ISBN: 0072966556
Copyright year: 2006 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 Stravinsky
- C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- 2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
- Voices
- Musical 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
- Types of Musical Form
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- 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
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- Secular Music in the Middle Ages
- The Development of Polyphony: Organum
- School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm
- Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France
- Guilaume de Machaut
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- 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
- Sacred Music in the Renaissance
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- Secular Music in the Renaissance
- 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
- 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 GUIDE: Tu se morta (You are dead)
- 8. Henry Purcell
- Ground Bass
- Dido and Aeneas
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 Boheme
- 18. Richard Wagner
- Wagner's Music
- Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Act I, Love Scene, Conclusion
Part VI The Twentieth Century - Performer Box: Bessie Smith
- 1. Musical Styles: 1900-1950
- 1900-1945: An Age of Musical Diversity
- Characteristics of Twentieth-Century Music
- 2. Music and Musicians in Society
- 3. Impressionism And Symbolism
- French Impressionist Painting
- French Symbolist Poetry
- 4. Claude Debussy
- Debussy's Music
- Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- 5. Neoclassicism
- 6. Igor Stravinsky
- Stravinsky's Music
- Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Part I, Introduction, Omens of Spring--Dances of the Youths and Maidens, Ritual of Abduction
- 7. Expressionism
- 8. Arnold Schoenberg
- Schoenberg's Music
- Pierrot lunaire, Op.21
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Mondestruncken (Moondrunk)
- A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- 9. Alban Berg
- Wozzeck
- 10. Anton Webern
- Webern's Music
- Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.10
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Piece
- 11. Béla Bartók
- Bartok's Music
- Concerto for Orchestra
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Second Movement
- 12. Charles Ives
- Ives's Music
- Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connceticut, from Three Places in New England
- 13. George Gershwin
- Rhapsody in Blue
- 14. William Grant Still
- Afro-American Symphony
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Movement
- 15. Aaron Copland
- Appalachian Spring
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Theme and Variations on Simple Gifts
- 16. Musical Styles Since 1945
- Characteristics of Music since 1945
- 17. Music Since 1945: Four Representative Pieces
- Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, by John Cage
- Poeme electronique (Electronic Poem), by Edgard Varese
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Opening Segment
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine, by John Adams
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- Concerto Grosso 1985, by Elen Taaffe Zwilich
- LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement
- 18. Jazz
- Jazz in Society
- Roots of Jazz
- VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
- PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Bessie Smith singing Lost Your Head Blues
- Elements of Jazz
- Jazz Styles
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- 19. The American Musical And Music In Film
- Musical Theater
- Leonard Bernstein
- West Side Story
- LISTENING OUTLINE: Tonight Ensemble
- 20. Rock
- Development of Rock
- Elements of Rock
Part VII Nonwestern Music - Performer Box: Ravi Shenkar
- 1. Music In Nonwestern Cultures
- Characteristics of Nonwestern Music
- Interaction between Nonwestern and Western Music
- 2. Music In Sub-Saharan Africa
- Music in Society
- Elements of African Music
- African Instruments
- Ompeh
- LISTENING OUTLINE
- 3. Classical Music Of India
- Performers
- Improvisation
- Elements of Indian Classical Music
- Instruments
- PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Sitar player Ravi Shankar performing Maru-Bihag
- Appendixes
- 1. Glossary And Example Locator
- 2. Chronology
- 3. Recordings
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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