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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 5/e
Roger Kamien, Hebrew University

ISBN: 0072966556
Copyright year: 2006

Table of Contents


    Preface

    Part I Elements

    Performer Box: Roger Kamien's performance of Chopin's Prelude in E Minor

    1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
    Pitch: Highness or Lowness of Sound
    Dynamics
    Tone Color
    Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound
    The Firebird, Scene 2 by Igor Stravinsky
    C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
    Voices
    Musical Instruments
    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34, by Benjamin Britten
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    3. Rhythm
    Beat
    Meter
    Accent and Syncopation
    Tempo

    4. Music Notation
    Notating Pitch
    Notating Rhythm
    Notating Silence (Rests)
    Notating Meter
    The Score

    5. Melody

    6. Harmony
    Consonance and Dissonance
    The Triad
    Broken Chords (Arpegios)
    Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No.4, by Frederic Chopin
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Roger Kamien playing Chopin's Prelude in E Minor

    7. Key
    The Major Scale
    The Minor Scale
    The Key Signature
    The Chromatic Scale
    Modulation: Change of Key
    Tonic Key

    8. Musical Texture
    Monophonic Texture
    Polyphonic Texture
    Homophonic Texture
    Changes of Texture
    Farandole from L'Arlesienne (The Woman from Arles) Suite No.2, by Georges Bizet
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    9. Musical Form
    Techniques That Create Musical Form
    Types of Musical Form
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    Listening for Form

    10. Musical Style

    Part II The Middle Ages And Renaissance

    Performer Box: Andrew Parrott

    1. Music In The Middle Ages (450-1450)
    Gregorian Chant
    The Church Modes
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    Secular Music in the Middle Ages
    The Development of Polyphony: Organum
    School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm
    Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France
    Guilaume de Machaut
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Andrew Parrott conducting the Agnus Dei from Machaut's Notre Dame Mass

    2. Music In The Renaissance (1450-1600)
    Characteristics of Renaissance Music
    Sacred Music in the Renaissance
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    Secular Music in the Renaissance
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    Instrumental Music
    Passamezzo and Galiard, by Pierre Fransisque Caroubel, from Terpsichore, by Michael Praetorius

    Part III The Baroque Period

    Performer Box: Jeanne Lamon

    1. Baroque Music (1600-1750)
    Characteristics of Baroque Music
    The Baroque Orchestra
    Baroque Forms

    2. Music In Baroque Society

    3. The Concerto Grosso And Ritornello Form
    Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach: First Movement
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    4. The Fugue
    Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue), by Johann Sebastian Bach
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    5. The Elements Of Opera

    6. Opera In The Baroque Era

    7. Claudio Monteverdi
    Orfeo (Orpheus)
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Tu se morta (You are dead)

    8. Henry Purcell
    Ground Bass
    Dido and Aeneas
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Dido's Lament

    9. The Baroque Sonata
    Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op.3, No.10, by Arcangelo Corelli

    10. Antonio Vivaldi
    La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op.8, No.1, from The Four Seasons
    LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Violinist Jeanne Lamon plays and conducts Vivaldi's 'Spring' Concerto

    11. Johann Sebastian Bach
    Bach's Music

    12. The Baroque Suite
    Suite No.3 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach

    13. The Chorale And Church Cantata
    The Church Cantata
    Cantata No.140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake, a voice is calling us) by Johann Sebastian Bach
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Fourth Movement; Seventh Movement

    14. The Oratorio

    15. George Frideric Handel
    Handel's Music
    Messiah
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted; Hallelujah Chorus

    Part IV The Classical Period

    Performer Box: Murray Perahia

    1. The Classical Style (1750-1820)
    Characteristics of the Classical Style
    The Classical Orchestra
    Classical Forms

    2. Composer, Patron, And Public In The Classical Period
    Vienna

    3. Sonata Form
    Exposition
    Development
    Recapitulation
    Coda
    Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First Movement
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    4. Theme And Variations
    Symphony No.94 in G Major (Surprise), by Joseph Haydn: Second Movement
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    5. Minuet And Trio

    Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third Movement
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    6. Rondo
    String Quartet in C Minor, Op.18, No.4, by Ludwig van Beethoven: Fourth Movement
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    7. The Classical Symphony

    8. The Classical Concerto

    9. Classical Chamber Music

    10. Joseph Hadyn
    Haydn's Music
    Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major: Third Movement

    11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Mozart's Music
    Don Giovanni
    Symphony No.40 in G. Minor, K.550
    Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major, K.488
    LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Murray Perahia playing and conducting the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488

    12. Ludwig Van Beethoven
    Beethoven's Music
    Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op.13 (Pathetique)
    Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67
    LISTENING OUTLINES: First Movement; Second Movement

    Part V The Romantic Period

    Performer Box: Pavarotti

    1. Romanticism In Music (1820-1900)
    Characteristics of Romantic Music

    2. Romantic Composers And Their Public

    3. The Art Song
    Strophic and Through-Composed Form
    The Song Cycle

    4. Franz Schubert
    Schubert's Music
    Erlkonig (The Erlking)
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

    5. Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann's Music
    Carnaval

    6. Clara Wieck Schumann
    Clara Wieck Schumann's Music
    Liebst du um Schonheit (If you love for beauty)
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

    7. Frédéric Chopin
    Chopin's Music
    Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.9, No.2
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    Etude in C Minor, Op.9, No.12
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op.53

    8. Franz Liszt
    Liszt's Music
    Transcendental Etude No.10 in F Minor

    9. Felix Mendelssohn
    Mendelssohn's Music
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op.64: First Movement

    10. Program Music

    11. Hector Berlioz
    Berlioz's Music
    Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony)
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Fourth Movement

    12. Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music
    The Moldau, by Bedrich Smetana
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    13. Antonin Dvorak
    Symphony No.9 in E Minor (From the New World)
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    14. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Tchaikovsky's Music
    Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy

    15. Johannes Brahms
    Brahm's Music
    Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op. 90
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Movement

    16. Giuseppe Verdi
    Verdi's Music
    Rigoletto

    17. Giacomo Puccini
    La Boheme
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Act 1: From Mimi's entrance through Che gelida manina
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Tenor Luciano Pavarotti singing the part of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme

    18. Richard Wagner
    Wagner's Music
    Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Act I, Love Scene, Conclusion

    Part VI The Twentieth Century

    Performer Box: Bessie Smith

    1. Musical Styles: 1900-1950
    1900-1945: An Age of Musical Diversity
    Characteristics of Twentieth-Century Music

    2. Music and Musicians in Society

    3. Impressionism And Symbolism
    French Impressionist Painting
    French Symbolist Poetry

    4. Claude Debussy
    Debussy's Music
    Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    5. Neoclassicism

    6. Igor Stravinsky
    Stravinsky's Music
    Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Part I, Introduction, Omens of Spring--Dances of the Youths and Maidens, Ritual of Abduction

    7. Expressionism

    8. Arnold Schoenberg
    Schoenberg's Music
    Pierrot lunaire, Op.21
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Mondestruncken (Moondrunk)
    A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE

    9. Alban Berg
    Wozzeck

    10. Anton Webern
    Webern's Music
    Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.10
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Piece

    11. Béla Bartók
    Bartok's Music
    Concerto for Orchestra
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Second Movement

    12. Charles Ives
    Ives's Music
    Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connceticut, from Three Places in New England

    13. George Gershwin
    Rhapsody in Blue

    14. William Grant Still
    Afro-American Symphony
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Third Movement

    15. Aaron Copland
    Appalachian Spring
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Theme and Variations on Simple Gifts

    16. Musical Styles Since 1945
    Characteristics of Music since 1945

    17. Music Since 1945: Four Representative Pieces
    Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, by John Cage
    Poeme electronique (Electronic Poem), by Edgard Varese
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Opening Segment
    Short Ride in a Fast Machine, by John Adams
    LISTENING OUTLINE
    Concerto Grosso 1985, by Elen Taaffe Zwilich
    LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement

    18. Jazz
    Jazz in Society
    Roots of Jazz
    VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Bessie Smith singing Lost Your Head Blues
    Elements of Jazz
    Jazz Styles
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    19. The American Musical And Music In Film
    Musical Theater
    Leonard Bernstein
    West Side Story
    LISTENING OUTLINE: Tonight Ensemble

    20. Rock
    Development of Rock
    Elements of Rock

    Part VII Nonwestern Music

    Performer Box: Ravi Shenkar

    1. Music In Nonwestern Cultures
    Characteristics of Nonwestern Music
    Interaction between Nonwestern and Western Music

    2. Music In Sub-Saharan Africa
    Music in Society
    Elements of African Music
    African Instruments
    Ompeh
    LISTENING OUTLINE

    3. Classical Music Of India
    Performers
    Improvisation
    Elements of Indian Classical Music
    Instruments
    Maru-Bihag, by Ravi Shankar
    PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Sitar player Ravi Shankar performing Maru-Bihag

    Appendixes
    1. Glossary And Example Locator
    2. Chronology
    3. Recordings

    Acknowledgments

    Index
Kamien - Music: An Appreciation, Fifth Brief Edition

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