For undergraduate-level courses in Music Appreciation. Understanding Music teaches students what to listen for in music. Jeremy Yudkin's text is a rich music appreciation program that supports the instructor's ultimate goal of teaching active listening. By focusing on music of the Western tradition in its social, historical, and global context, ...
For Music Appreciation courses. This straightforward, accessible volume provides explanations of how music works, and provides an overview of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present day in its social and global context. This text engages students in a total active listening experience through its lively narrative and ...
Historical survey of music in medieval Europe, from the end of Antiques to the beginning of the fifteenth century; from plain chant to late medieval polyphonic song.
For standard undergraduate Calculus courses.This new edition is nearly a new book. Previous Chapters 7 and 8 on transcendental functions have been eliminated by being integrated fully into Chapters 1-6. Thus Chapters 1-6 have been completely rewritten. Calculus II now has a new focus on differential equations, anchored by a new Chapter 8. And ...
Focusing on one of the legendary trumpet players in jazz, Jeremy Yudkin's book examines Miles Davis' often overlook music of the mid-1960s with a behind-the-scenes study of the evolution of a new, post bop style. It spotlights Davis during an extraordinarily creative period when the artist struggled with personal and musical reinvention and ...
For one-quarter/two-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Music Appreciation/Introduction to Music, and Music History in Departments of Music, Arts, Fine Arts, or Humanities. Designed to help instructors teach the way they want to teach, Prentice Hall has assembled a music appreciation program with a maximum amount of flexibility and choice ...
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