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Widely praised by instructors for its captivating presentation of musical concepts, this landmark music-appreciation text continues to help transform students into active, insightful listeners. Authors Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson, two of America's leading musicologists and music educators, are both known as inspirational and wide-ranging teachers. Their diverse experience, lively writing style, and clear explanations of musical concepts make music approachable and engaging for students in the introductory course. Their text continually offers the highest quality recordings, the clearest Listening Charts, and the richest cultural contexts to inform students' listening. Now the sixth edition of "Listen" extends its proven approach into the multimedia environment with new music, new media, and a new look, making it easier than ever to discover the "best" way to listen.
Table des matières
| Preface: To the Instructor |
| Introduction: To the Student |
| Music and History |
| Listening |
| Unit I Fundamentals |
| Listening |
| Prelude: An Orchestral Prelude by Richard Wagner |
| Listening Chart 1 Wagner, Prelude to The Valkyrie |
| Chapter 1 Music, Sound, and Time |
| 1 Sound Vibrations |
| 2 Dynamics (Amplitude) |
| Listening Exercise 1 Pitch and Dynamics |
| 3 Tone Color: Overtones |
| 4 Duration |
| Chapter 2 Rhythm and Pitch |
| 1 Rhythm |
| Listening Exercise 2 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo |
| Listening Exercise 3 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo |
| 2 Pitch |
| Interlude A: Musical Notation |
| Chapter 3 The Structures of Music |
| 1 Melody |
| Box: Characteristics of Tunes |
| Listening Exercise 4 Melody and Tune |
| 2 Harmony |
| 3 Texture |
| Listening Exercise 5 Texture |
| 4 Tonality and Modality |
| Listening Exercise 6 Mode and Key |
| Interlude B: Musical Instruments |
| Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style |
| 1 Form in Music |
| Listening Exercise 7 Musical Form |
| 2 Musical Style |
| Listening Chart 2 Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra |
| Unit II Early Music: An Overview |
| Chapter 5 The Middle Ages |
| 1 Music and the Church: Plainchant |
| Plainchant, Preface for Mass on Whit Sunday, "Vere dignum" |
| "In paradisum"Plainchant and Gregorian Antiphon |
| Hildegard of Bingen, Plainchant Sequence, "Columba aspexit" |
| 2 Music at Court |
| Box: How Did Early Music Sound? |
| Troubadour song, "La dousa votz"Bernart de Ventadorn |
| 3 The Evolution of Polyphony |
| "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"PãÂ(c)rotin and Organum |