Masterworks: A Musical Discovery

By D. Kern Holoman

Book Overview

New edition of an integrated multimedia program designed to teach the core concepts of music appreciation. In the text, musicologist-conductor Holoman (U. of California, Davis) draws on his own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132263580
• ISBN13: 9780132263580
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Update on Music Appreciation

A 2nd edition of this worthy text increases listening examples to four CD's and still includes an interactive CD-ROM and companion website. Congratulations to the author for configuring a text that could work in a ten week quarter calendar. The nine chapter format with introduction would be difficult to complete without careful choices-- but a tri-mester calendar would be a snap. The last third of the text considers evolution of American music to the 20th century, after following the traditional Euro-centric focus on art music. Other texts (like Willoughby) attempt to include more diversity from world music cultures, but require a longer term-- the semester calendar.