Listening to Music, Fourth Edition
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Written in a lively and appealing style, Listening to Music provides the foundation for acquiring a lifelong knowledge and appreciation of music. It concentrates on the effective listening skills needed to identify composers and to recognize their styles and some of their representative works. Readers are encouraged to become informed consumers of music and active supporters of the arts. An accompanying 4 CD set provides selections that will reinforce the book's written material. This comprehensive book covers the musical process, the materials of music, the common style periods of concert music (from the Baroque period to the present), and adjunct music, including North American popular music, broadway musical theater, and music in the movies. A useful reference work for those in the music industry.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
Designed especially for students with very little background in Western concert music, this book/cassette (or CD) package focuses on learning how to listen to and understand music that spans periods from 600 up to the present. Using a lively style and an appealing context, it sets each major musical period in its social, historical, and economic milieu.
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Listening to Music, Fourth Edition
Listening to Music, Fourth Edition,Jay Zorn,Prentice Hall,0131773151,Instruction & Study - Appreciation,Music,Music Appreciation,Music / General
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