Listening to Music - Softcover

1. Listening to Music. 2. Rhythm. 3. Melody. 4. Harmony. 5. Dynamics and Color. 6. Musical Texture and Form. 7. Musical Style. Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, 476-1600. 8. Medieval Music, 476-1450. 9. Renaissance Music, 1450-1600. Part III: THE BAROQUE PERIOD, 1600-1750. 10. Introduction to Baroque Art and Music. 11. Early Baroque Vocal Music. 12. Toward Late Baroque Instrumental Music. 13. The Late Baroque: Bach. 14. The Late Baroque: Handel. Part IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1750-1820. 15. Classical Style. 16. Classical Composers: Haydn and Mozart. 17. Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata-Allegro. 18. Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo. 19. Classical Genres: Instrumental Music. 20. Classical Genres: Vocal Music. 21. Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism. Part V: ROMANTICISM, 1820-1900. 22. Introduction to Romanticism. 23. Romantic Music: The Art Song. 24. Romantic Music: Program Music and Ballet. 25. Romantic Music: Piano Music. 26. Romantic Opera: Italy. 27. Romantic Opera: Germany. 28. Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera. 29. Music and Nationalism. 30. Late Romantic Orchestral Music. Part VI: MODERN AND POSTMODERN ART MUSIC, 1880-Present. 31. Impressionism and Exoticism. 32. Modernism in Music and the Arts. 33. Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism. 34. Russian and Eastern European Modernism. 35. Three American Voices. 36. Postmodernism. Part VII: AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC, 1850-Present. 37. American Popular Music, 1850-World War II. 38. Postwar Jazz. 39. Broadway, Film, and Video Game Music. 40. Rock: Music of Rebellion. Part VIII: GLOBAL MUSIC. 41. The Far East. 42. The Near East and Africa. 43. The Caribbean and Latin America. Glossary. Index.

The only music appreciation text on the market to include listening exercises throughout the book, "Listening to Music, Sixth Edition", masterfully develops and refines the listening skills of your students. Acclaimed for unparalleled clarity and accuracy, Wright succinctly covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern. Musical examples from each historical period are discussed within their social context, giving students a broad sense of not only the construction of a piece, but also its historical and cultural meaning. Concluding chapters discuss popular music and its impact on musical globalization, and music from East Asia, the Near East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, drawing comparisons between Western and non-Western musical cultures. This chronological text actively develops listening skills in three important ways: First, "Listening to Music" includes detailed Listening Exercises throughout the book. These easy-to-grade exercises help students focus on important musical elements and episodes; by providing these exercises in the book, Craig Wright (who teaches music appreciation and uses these exercises himself) frees instructors to spend time on other aspects of class preparation. Second, a free "Introduction to Listening" CD comes packaged with each copy of the text. This CD plays all of the music and musical examples for the listening exercises in Part One, which introduces music fundamentals. Third, Active Listening Guides with streaming music and listening quizzes are available from the Schirmer Cengage Learning premium website to further challenge and test your students. For the first time, the text's companion site links to a complete online course taught by Craig Wright at Open Yale Courses, an open-access selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The courses include exciting live in-class performances and demonstrations!