Music: The Art of Listening - Brossura

Ferris, Jean; Worster, Larry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073401420 ISBN 13: 9780073401423

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009

Riassunto

Music: The Art of Listening weaves the story of great music into the fabric of cultural and social history to provide the reader with a context for developing appreciation. In a clear and accessible format, Jean Ferris and new coauthor Larry Worster introduce music from across several centuries, helping the listener develop techniques to fully appreciate music along the way. Using listening guides, insights into the composers, and illustrations from other arts, Music: The Art of Listening provides every student with a way to engage with great music and to carry that engagement into their wider listening world.

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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.

Larry Worster (B.S., St. Lawrence University; B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder; M.M. University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder) is a Professor of Music at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He taught previously at the University of Colorado, Regis College, and Denver University. He performed for ten years (1984-94) in the Irish folk ensemble Colcannon. Dr. Worster has been active in the leadership of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the College Music Society, the Society for American Music, and the Board of Directors of the Boulder Bach Festival. He is the author of Cecil Effinger: A Colorado Composer published in 1997 by Scarecrow Press. He has published articles in the American Music Research Center Journal and the Sonneck Society Bulletin and presented papers at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Sonneck Society, and the College Music Society. His ChartCreator software is published as shareware at www.chartcreator.com. Six customized sets of ChartPlayer software for the support of general studies music textbooks have been published by McGraw-Hill.

Contenuti:

Table of Contents

Listening Examples

Optional Listening Guides

Preface

Overture

PART ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS

Part One Opener

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 in India

Chapter 4. Harmony

Chords

Tonality

Consonance and Dissonance

Listening Example 4. Charles Ives: "London Bridge Is Fallen Down" from Old Home Days Suite

Texture

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Chapter 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

Harpsichord

Piano

Pipe Organ

Electronic Instruments

Electronic Synthesizer

MIDI

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Encore

Connection: Music Timbres around the World

Chapter 6. Attending Performances

Performance Procedures

Orchestral Performances

Orchestral Forms

The Printed Program

Band Performances

Other Performances

Chamber Music

Choral Music

Dance

Musical Theater

Jazz

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

PART TWO: ANCIENT GREECE, THE MIDDLE AGES, THE RENAISSANCE

Part Two Opener

Chapter 7. The Music of Ancient Greece

Historical perspective

Music in Greek Life

The Greeks' Lasting Influence

Music and Words

Stories and Myths

The Philosophy of Music

Scientific Theories of Music

Classicism versus Romanticism in Art

An Interrupted Legacy

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Connection: Extramusical Perceptions in Several Cultures

Chapter 8. Medieval Music

Historical Perspective

Artistic Style

Early Christian Music

Modes

Further Characteristics of Medieval Music

Gregorian Chant

Listening 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 Polyphony

The Fourteenth Century

Artistic Style

Music

Secular Music

Listening 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 Dame

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Connection: Islamic Chant

Chapter 9. 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

Chapter 10. 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 the Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass for Pope Marcellus)

Protestant Worship Music

Chorale

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

Psalm Tunes

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 11. Secular Music in the Renaissance

Madrigal

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

Instrumental Music

String Instruments

Keyboard 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

Chapter 12. Toward the Baroque

Artistic Style

Music

Venetian Polychoral Music

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)

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

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 13. 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

Chapter 14. Dramatic Music of the Baroque

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

First and Second Practice

Early Opera

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

Recitative

Aria

Henry Purcell (c. 1659-1695)

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

Late Baroque Opera

Bel Canto

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Oratorio

Messiah

Listening Example 18. "Hallelujah" Chorus from Messiah

Johann Sebastian Bach (1785-1750)

Cantata

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

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 15. 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 16. Toward Classicism

The Rococo

Visual Arts

Music

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

The German "Sensitive" Style

Summary

Critical Thinking

Terms to Review

Key Figures

Encore

Chapter 17. 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 18. Formal Design in the Classical Period...

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073401420
• ISBN 13: 9780073401423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480