Gateways to Understanding Music

by Dave Wilson and Timothy Rice

Book Overview

Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138039063
• ISBN13: 9781138039063
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.