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Music: The Art of Listening Book Cover
Music: The Art of Listening, 6/e
Jean Ferris, Arizona State University-Tempe

Feature Summary

  • NEW! Full Color: The text is now full color throughout.

  • Musical Encounters: Eight non-Western and popular musics are presented in Ferris's Cultural Encounters section. The Encounters are thoroughly supported by listening guides and by recordings on the CD set.

  • The most World music:Music: The Art of Listening features the largest repertoire of non-Western recordings available for the music appreciation course.

  • A Contextual Approach: Ferris discusses music in the context of the society that surrounds it. Her approach minimizes the need for musical notation in the text and instead emphasizes the way the lives and times of composers influence their work.








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