Listen to the music. Hear the elements. Expand your playlist. Informed by over 300 instructor and student reviews, Listen to This was created for today's students. It will expand your students' playlist with its listening-oriented approach and the integration of the musical elements. For the professor, it provides a customizable, modular format ...
Suitable for all courses in music history. This text provides undergraduates with a conceptual framework for understanding stylistic and social developments in the history of music from classical antiquity to the present. Its narrative is built around a series of carefully chosen musical works contained in the accompanying 2-volume anthology and ...
"A History of Music in Western Culture "3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus squarely on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions. Once familiar with a representative ...
An anthology of scores that covers Antiquity to the Baroque Era. The works have been carefully selected to represent the developments in music history discussed in the text. Every selection in the anthology is discussed in the text.
Music of the Classical Era to the present featuring: new works, improved editions, integrated commentary, improved cross-referencing to text and recordings, and internal trackings keyed to recordings.
"Beethoven Forum, Volume 7", "The essays in this volume grew out of an international Beethoven conference at Harvard University in the fall of 1996, convoked to honor Lewis Lockwood, and united under the theme "Rethinking Beethoven's Late Period: Sources, Aesthetics, and Interpretation". Mark Evan Bonds is professor of music at the University of ...
Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and ...
A History of Music in Western Culture 3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions. Once familiar with a representative body of ...
A History of Music in Western Culture 3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions. Once familiar with a representative body of ...
Beethoven cast a looming shadow over the 19th century. For composers he was a model both to emulate and to overcome. "You have no idea how it feels", Brahms confided, "when one always hears such a giant marching behind one". Exploring the response of five composers - Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler - to what each clearly saw as ...
Suitable for all courses in music history. This brief and accessible text provides undergraduates with a conceptual framework for understanding stylistic and social developments in the history of music from classical antiquity to the present. This text allows the student to grasp the richness and importance of musical history in two important ...
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