Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 782 g
Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 782 g
ISBN: 978-0-07-340142-3
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
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Table of ContentsListening ExamplesOptional Listening GuidesPreface OverturePART ONE: BASIC CONCEPTSPart One OpenerChapter 1. SoundPitchNaming PitchesNotating PitchesIntervalsDynamicsListening Example 1. Richard Strauss: Introduction to Also sprach ZarathustraSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewEncoreChapter 2. RhythmTempoMeterListening Example 2. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance (Trepak) from The NutcrackerConducting PatternsSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewEncoreConnection: Rhythm in the Music of Africa and IndiaChapter 3. MelodyMelodic TypesScalesMajor and Minor ScalesTonic NoteChromatic ScaleWhole-Tone ScalePentatonic ScaleListening Example 3. Anonymous: "Amazing Grace"SummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewEncoreConnection: Melody in China and in IndiaChapter 4. HarmonyChordsTonalityConsonance and DissonanceListening Example 4. Charles Ives: "London Bridge Is Fallen Down" from Old Home Days SuiteTextureSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewEncoreChapter 5. TimbreVocal TimbresInstruments of the OrchestraString InstrumentsWoodwindsBrass InstrumentsPercussion InstrumentsListening Example 5. Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the OrchestraKeyboard InstrumentsHarpsichordPianoPipe OrganElectronic InstrumentsElectronic SynthesizerMIDISummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewEncoreConnection: Music Timbres around the WorldChapter 6. Attending PerformancesPerformance ProceduresOrchestral PerformancesOrchestral FormsThe Printed ProgramBand PerformancesOther PerformancesChamber MusicChoral MusicDanceMusical TheaterJazzSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewPART TWO: ANCIENT GREECE, THE MIDDLE AGES, THE RENAISSANCEPart Two OpenerChapter 7. The Music of Ancient GreeceHistorical perspectiveMusic in Greek LifeThe Greeks' Lasting InfluenceMusic and WordsStories and MythsThe Philosophy of MusicScientific Theories of MusicClassicism versus Romanticism in ArtAn Interrupted LegacySummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewConnection: Extramusical Perceptions in Several CulturesChapter 8. Medieval MusicHistorical PerspectiveArtistic StyleEarly Christian MusicModesFurther Characteristics of Medieval MusicGregorian ChantListening Example 6. Alleluia: "Pascha nostrum" from the Dominica Resurrectionis for Easter Sunday.Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)Listening Example 7. Hildegard of Bingen: "Nunc aperuit nobis"Rise of PolyphonyThe Fourteenth CenturyArtistic StyleMusicSecular MusicListening Example 8. Anon: "Sumer is icumen in"Sacred Music Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377)Listening Example 9. Guillaume de Machaut: Gloria from the Messa de Nostre DameSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewKey FiguresEncoreConnection: Islamic ChantChapter 9. The Renaissance: General CharacteristicsHistorical PerspectiveThe ReformationThe Counter-ReformationArtistic StylePaintingArchitectureSculptureMusicTimbreTextureRenaissance ModesSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to ReviewKey FiguresChapter 10. Sacred Music of the RenaissanceRenaissance MotetJosquin Desprez (c. 1445-1521)Renaissance MassGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1524-1594)Listening Example 10. Palestrina: Agnus Dei I from the Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass for Pope Marcellus)Protestant Worship MusicChoraleListening Example 11. Martin Luther: "Ein' feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortress")Psalm TunesSummaryCritical ThinkingTerms to Review