Roger Kamien,
Zubin Mehta Chair, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISBN: 0077837312 Copyright year: 2015
What's New
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Connect Music now includes worksheets for performance reports, and redesigned interactive Listening Outlines.
Virtual Field Trip feature in the text allows students to scan the QR Code and experience a concert or musical performance without having to enter the concert hall, and respond to the performances using the Beyond the Classroom sections.
New section on music in America with discussions and musical pieces from the following artists:
Amy Beach, a child prodigy and the first American woman to achieve international recognition as a composer of large-scale works, discussed in Part VI, section 13,
and Eric Whitacre, an important contemporary American composer and conductor of choral music is discussed in Part VI, section 20 with special coverage of his “Conducting his Lux Aurumque, performed by the Virtual Choir” in a new Performance Perspectives box.
New discussions of Melody and Words and Song Forms in Part I, section 5 explain the complex connection between words and melody and how the two combine to create song forms.
Updates to the discussion of Music and Musicians in Society since 1900 to include coverage from 1950 to the present day in Part VI, section 2.
A new discussion of the song Over the Rainbow in Part I, section 5.
The addition of the vocal duet La ci da rem la mano, from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, including a Vocal Music Guide in Part IV, section 11.
Inclusion of the complete scene between Mimi and Rodolfo from La Bohéme (1896) and Vocal Music Guide in Part V, section 16.
2015