Listening to Music Parameters

2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-7924-5728-9
Verlag: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback

Listening to Music Parameters, 2nd edition covers multiple topics of interest for students and its #1 goal is writing about music. Students love to listen to music, and the best thing that could happen is for them to start writing about it. Additionally, this second edition textbook offers tools for more advanced music students who may be interested in research.Features of the Listening to Music Parameters, 2nd Edition include: - Self-quizzes: The webcom has multiple-choice questions for every chapter in the book, and unlimited attempts are allowed.
- Whole or half step: The webcom Interactive Activities tab encourages learning how to construct a Major scale on the keyboard.
- Sample concert report: The webcom Concert Review tab has a sample concert review, fully graded.
- Napster.com recordings: These supplement the second edition. The textbook integrates the recordings in two places—inside the back cover and within specified chapters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword to Students and Instructors
- UNIT ONE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC I
- Chapter 1 America's Own Musical Styles: Jazz
- Chapter 2 Musical and Grammatical Goals of Writing
- Chapter 3 Three Basic Music Parameters—a. Rhythm
- Chapter 4 Three Basic Music Parameters—b. Melody
- Chapter 5 Three Basic Music Parameters—c. Harmony
- Chapter 6 Texture
- Chapter 7 Dynamics
- Chapter 8 Keyboard Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Scales
- Chapter 9 Form
- Chapter 10 America's Own Musical Styles: Country
- UNIT TWO ELEMENTS OF MUSIC II
- Chapter 11 Timbre Part I: Woodwind and Brass Orchestral Colors
- Chapter 12 Timbre Part II: Percussion and String Orchestral Colors
- Chapter 13 Variety in Tempo and Beat
- Chapter 14 Timbre Part III: Vocal Ranges and Choral Colors
- Chapter 15 Timbre Part IV: Keyboard and Electronic Colors
- Chapter 16 Parameters, an Endless List
- Chapter 17 Style Periods
- Chapter 18 Principles and Methodologies in Writing
- Chapter 19 Writing Concert Reports
- Chapter 20 America's Own Musical Styles: Rock
- Chapter 21 Film and Light Concert Music
- UNIT THREE MIDDLE AGES THROUGH CLASSICAL: 450–1820
- Chapter 22 Middle Ages
- Chapter 23 Monophonic Song
- Chapter 24 Renaissance
- Chapter 25 From Renaissance to Baroque
- Chapter 26 The Middle Baroque: Dance, Theatre, and String Music
- Chapter 27 Johann Sebastian Bach and Counterpoint
- Chapter 28 George Frideric Handel and the English Oratorio
- Chapter 29 Pre-Classical Music, 1730–1760
- Chapter 30 Franz Joseph Haydn, New Genres: Symphony and String Quartet
- Chapter 31 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Prolifi c Prodigy
- Chapter 32 Beethoven Beginnings: Imitation and Independence Periods
- UNIT FOUR ROMANTICISM PART I
- Chapter 33 Beethoven New Genres and Forms: Introspection Period
- Chapter 34 Schubert and the Art Song
- Chapter 35 Weber Opera and Orchestral Works
- Chapter 36 Schumann Character Piece and Music Criticism
- Chapter 37 Berlioz and the Program Symphony
- Chapter 38 Paganini and the Role of Virtuosity
- Chapter 39 Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
- Chapter 40 Wagner and the Music Drama
- Chapter 41 Donizetti to Verdi: Romantic Opera
- Chapter 42 Chopin and Piano Miniatures
- Chapter 43 Mendelssohn and Brahms: Innovations in Old Genres
- Chapter 44 Puccini and the Italian Pinnacle of Verismo Opera
- Chapter 45 Johann Strauss Jr. and the Viennese Waltz, Ländler
- UNIT FIVE ROMANTICISM PART II THROUGH TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
- Chapter 46 Smetana and Dvo?rák, Nationalism in Orchestral Genres
- Chapter 47 The "Mighty Five" Russian Nationalism in Opera and Orchestral Genres
- Chapter 48 Tchaikovsky: Tradition, Ballets, and Suites
- Chapter 49 Saint-Saëns and the French Tradition
- Chapter 50 Scandinavian Pockets of Nationalism: Grieg and Sibelius
- Chapter 51 Rachmaninoff and Russian Romanticism in Traditional Genres
- Chapter 52 Mahler and Song, Song Cycle, and Symphony
- Chapter 53 Richard Strauss and Symphonic Poem Virtuosity
- Chapter 54 Debussy and Ravel, French Avant-Garde Impressionism
- Chapter 55 Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School
- Chapter 56 Stravinsky and the Primitivism Ballets
- Chapter 57 Prokofiev and Shostakovich: Russian Avant-Garde and the Soviet Influence
- Chapter 58 New Directions in Twentieth-Century America and Europe
- Works Cited
- Postlude
- Dates
- Glossary
- Index