Music: The Art of Listening with CD set - Brossura

Ferris, Jean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007331823X ISBN 13: 9780073318233

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Riassunto

Emphasizing music in the context of the society that surrounds it, Music: The Art of Listening weaves the development of Western music into the fabric of cultural history, paying special attention to the biographies of significant composers. In a clear and accessible format, it introduces music from centuries past as well as that of the current era, and helps the listener develop techniques to fully appreciate music in public performance halls, on the radio, in films, or in the theater. Among the highlights of this seventh edition is a greatly expanded selection of Listening Examples, which are available on the text’s companion CD set.

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L'autore

After receiving her MA in Music History and Literature at Arizona State University, Jean Ferris taught Music History and Appreciation at ASU. In addition to her work at the University, she has been involved with the music community by serving as a church choir director, singing with the Phoenix Symphony Chorale, playing the organ, and touring to Japan with her high school handbell choir--apparently the first handbell choir to perform in that country.

Ferris is the author of two books: Music: The Art of Listening and America's Musical Landscape.

Contenuti

The Student’s Preface

Attending Performances

Orchestral Performances

Other Performances

Form in Music

The Printed Program

How to Write about Music

Different Kinds of performance

Subjective Reactions Preface

Overture

Part One: Basic Concepts

Part One Opener

1. Sound

Pitch

Naming Pitches

Notating Pitches

Intervals

Dynamics

Listening Example 1. Richard Strauss: Introduction to Also sprach Zarathustra

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

2. Rhythm

Tempo

Meter

Listening Example 2. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance (Trepak) from The Nutcracker

Conducting Patterns

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Rhythm in the Music of Africa and India

3. Melody

Melodic Types

Scales

Major and Minor Scales

Tonic Note

Chromatic Scale

Whole Tone Scale

Pentatonic Scale

Listening Example 3. Anonymous: "Amazing Grace"

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Melody in China and India

4. Harmony

Chords

Tonality

Consonance and Dissonance

Listening Example 4. Trad.: "Shenandoah" (excerpt)

Texture

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

5. Timbre

Vocal Timbres

Instruments of the Orchestra

String Instruments

Woodwinds

Brass Instruments

Percussion Instruments

Listening Example 5. Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Keyboard Instruments

Harpsicord

Piano

Pipe Organ

Electronic Instruments

Electronic Synthesizer

MIDI

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Music Timbers around the World

Part Two: Ancient Greece, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance

Part Two Opener

6. The Music of Ancient Greece

Historical Perspective

Music in Greek Life

The Greek's Lasting Influence

Music and Words

Stories and Myths

The Philosophy of Music

Scientific Theories of Music

Classicism versus Romanticism in Art

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Extramusical Pereceptions in Several Cultures

7. Medieval Music

Historical Perspective

Artistic Style

Early Christian Music

Modes

Further Christian Thought

Gregorian Chant

Listening Example 6. Alleluia: "Pascha nostrum" from the Dominica Resurrectionis for Easter Sunday

Hildegard of Bingen: "Nunc aperuit nobis"

Rise of Polyphony

Secular Music

The English Sound

Listening Example 8. Anon: "Sumer is icumen in"

Instrumental Music

The New Method

Artistic Style

Music

The Mass

Guillaume de Machaut: "Gloria" from the Missa Notre Dame

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Islamic Chant

8. The Renaissance: General Characteristics

Historical Perspective

The Reformation

The Counter-Reformation

Artistic Style

Painting

Architecture

Sculpture

Music

Timbre

Texture

Renaissance Modes

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

9. Sacred Music of the Renaissance

Renaissance Motet

Josquin Desprez (c. 1445-1521)

Renaissance Mass

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1524-1594)

Listening Example 10. Palestrina: Agnus Dei I from Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass for Pope Macellus)

Protestant Worship Music

Chorale

Listening Example 11. Martin Luther: "Ein' feste Bug" ("A Mighty Fortress")

Psalm Tunes

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

10. Secular Music in the Renaissance

Madrigal

Listening Example 13. Thomas Weelkes: "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending"

Instrumental Music

String Instruments

Keybpard Instruments

Listening Example 14. John Dowland: "Queen Elizabeth's Galliard"

Wind Instruments

Ensembles

Women Instrumentalists

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Part Three: The Baroque (1600-1750)

Part Three Opener

11. Toward the Baroque

Artistic Style

Music

Venetian Polychoral Music

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)

Listening Example 15. Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata pian' e forte Monody

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

12. The Baroque: General Characteristics

Historical Perspective

Religion

Science and Philosophy

Artistic Style

Literature

Painting

Sculpture

Music

Contrasts

Texture

Rise of Tonality

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

13. Dramatic Music of the Baroque

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

First and Second Practice

Early Opera

Recitative

Listening Example 16. Claudio Monteverdi: "Tu se'morta" from L'Orfeo

Aria

Henry Purcell (c. 1659-1695)

Listening Example 17. Henry Purcell: Dido's "Lament" from Dido and Aeneas

Late Baroque Opera

Bel Canto

Ballad Opera

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Oratorio

Messuah

Listening Example 18. "Hallelujah" Chorus from Messiah

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Cantata

Listening Example 19. Johann Sebastian Bach: "Wachet auf" ("Sleepers Wake" from Cantat No. 140)

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

14. Instrumental Music of the Baroque

Music for Keyboards

Prelude

Fugue

Listening Example 20. J.S. Bach: Fugue in G Minor ("Little" Fugue)

Toccata

Suite

The Basso Continuo

Chamber Music

Sonata

Orchestral Music

Concerto

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Listening Example 21. Antonio Vivaldi: "Spring" Concerto (from The Four Seasons), first movement

Concerto Grosso

Listening Example 22. J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Part Four: The Classical Period (1750-1820)

Part Four Opener

Chapter 15. Toward Classicism

The Rococo

Visual Arts

Music

The German "Sensitive" Style

Listening Example 23. Francois Couperin: "Le tic-toc-choc" from Ordre 18

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 16. The Classical period: General Characteristics

Historical Perspective

the Enlightenment

Artistic Style

Painting

Sculpture and Architecture

Literature

Music

General Characteristics

Viennese Style

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 17. Formal Design in the Classical Period

The Orchestra

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Symphony

Sonata-Allegro

Listening Example 24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550,...

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 007331823X
• ISBN 13: 9780073318233
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 421