Music: An Appreciation

By Roger Kamien

Book Overview

Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art of listening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learning the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. This is achieved through step-by-step guidance as they learn the elements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate, and an enhanced McGraw-Hill Connect experience. As the authority in the Music Appreciation course, Kamien equips students with the language, tools and listening skills required to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1259892700
• ISBN13: 9781259892707
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

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A Good Overview of Music in Context

This book does a good job of putting music in an overall historical context. For example, it notes how Baroque productions, whether sculpture or music, meant to "fill space." That accounts for elaborate melodies in music, and movement in painting and sculpture. Music used to be written as much for the mind as the ear. In some vocal pieces, lyrics correspond to melody. For example, if the word "ascending" is used in the song, the notes of the melody also go up. Vice-versa for descending. If the song mentions one person, a single voice is used--three voices come in when three people are in the storyline. The musical selections are varied and enjoyable to listen to.

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