For Music Appreciation courses at the college and high-school levels.
Listening to Music's step-by-step presentation, accessible and reader-friendly approach, and focus on the music and composers helps students gain the effective listening skills needed to identify composers, their styles, and their music.
Listening to Music reflects the successful and innovative approach used in Dr. Jay Zorn's popular course in music appreciation. While teaching his course, he realized students needed a more accessible and reader-friendly text that would cover the genres interesting to them while still teaching the classical repertoire. It takes a listening-based approach, focusing on individual works where the student is guided with appropriate musical and social background in order to understand the relationship to other music.
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Listening to Music's step-by-step presentation, accessible and reader-friendly approach, and focus on the music and composers helps you gain the effective listening skills needed to identify composers, their styles, and their music.
Listening to Music reflects the successful and innovative approach used in Dr. Jay Zorn's popular course in music appreciation. Written in a lively and appealing style, Listening to Music provides the foundation for acquiring a lifelong knowledge and appreciation of music. It concentrates on the effective listening skills needed to identify composers and to recognize their styles and some of their representative works-playing in the background of the social, economic, and historical influences in their lives. By reading this book, you'll become an informed consumer of music, gaining not only new expertise and insights but also being able to choose from the musical offerings available to you. From world music to jazz; classical music to rock; Broadway and film; Listening to Music is the ideal introduction to today's musical world.
NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION
NEW! UPDATED DESIGN and FULL COLOR FORMAT
- Presents material in a more attractive, readable format.
- Art work and maps presented in full-color
NEW! Complete chapter on JAZZ
- Expands coverage
- Gives Jazz the attention it deserves
NEW! Limitless online listening
- Exposes students to more music
- Allows professor to customize listening tasks
- Ability to download files for later study
NEW! On line Source Documents
- Seminal readings on music history available in one place
- Gives students deeper understanding of music history
EXPANDED AND UPDATED! Coverage of rock, rap, world music, Broadway, film music, and other styles
- Fulfills need for diversity
- Presents music students know and enjoy
