Listen

With its superb recording package and innovative listening charts, this landmark text teaches students how to listen to music better than any other. "Listen" makes music approachable by placing it in its cultural context with lavish illustrations, timelines, and maps. Equipped with a free Study Guide CD-ROM, the new edition is more accessible than ever, offering additional help in focused listening and in music fundamentals.

Preface To the Instructor

v

Introduction To the Student

xi

Unit I Fundamentals

1

(44)

Music, Sound, and Time

2

(4)

Rhythm and Pitch

6

(13)

Interlude A Musical Notation

15

(4)

The Structures of Music

19

(20)

Interlude B Musical Instruments

30

(9)

Musical Form and Musical Style

39

(6)

Unit II Early Music: An Overview

45

(54)

The Middle Ages

46

(16)

The Renaissance

62

(18)

The Early Baroque Period

80

(19)

Unit III The Eighteenth Century

99

(112)

Prelude The Late Baroque Period

100

(15)

Baroque Instrumental Music

115

(24)

Baroque Vocal Music

139

(17)

Prelude Music and the Enlightenment

156

(13)

The Symphony

169

(23)

Other Classical Genres

192

(19)

Unit IV The Nineteenth Century

211

(96)

Beethoven

213

(14)

Prelude Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

227

(14)

The Early Romantics

241

(25)

Romantic Opera

266

(18)

The Late Romantics

284

(23)

Unit V The Twentieth Century

307

(115)

Prelude Music and Modernism

309

(14)

The Early Twentieth Century

323

(26)

Alternatives to Modernism

349

(11)

The Late Twentieth Century

360

(23)

Music in America: Jazz

383

(39)

Appendix 1 Maps

Music of Europe

419

(1)

Music of the World

420

(2)

Appendix 2 Further Listening, Suggested Readings, and Recommended Web Sites

422

(5)

Glossary of Musical Terms

427

(12)

Index

439

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