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Title

Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

Author

Kamien, Roger.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.

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Details

Description

xxxvii, 583 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm +

Subjects

• Music appreciation
• Music > History and criticism

Note

• Accompanying compact discs contain musical examples by various performers.
• CD track lists also on book endpapers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Elements. Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color ; Performing media : voices and instruments ; Rhythm ; Music notation ; Melody ; Harmony ; Key ; Musical texture ; Musical form ; Performance ; Musical style -- The Middle Ages. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450) ; Gregorian chant ; Secular music in the Middle Ages ; The development of polyphony : organum ; Fourteenth-century music : the "new art" in Italy and France -- The Renaissance. Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600) ; Sacred music in the Renaissance ; Secular music in the Renaissance ; The Venetian school : from Renaissance to Baroque -- The Baroque period. Baroque music (1600-1750) ; Music in Baroque society ; The concerto grosso and ritornello form ; The fugue ; The elements of opera ; Opera in the Baroque era ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Henry Purcell ; The Baroque sonata ; Arcangelo Corelli ; Antonio Vivaldi ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; The Baroque suite ; The chorale and church cantata ; The oratorio ; George Frideric Handel -- The Classical period. The Classical style (1750-1820) ; Composer, patron, and public in the Classical period ; Sonata form ; Theme and variations ; Minuet and trio ; Rondo ; The classical symphony ; The classical concerto ; Classical chamber music ; Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven -- The Romantic period. Romanticism in music (1820-1900) ; Romantic composers and their public ; The art song ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Clara Wieck Schumann ; Frédéric Chopin ; Franz Liszt ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Program music ; Hector Berlioz ; Nationalism in nineteenth-century music ; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Bedřich Smetana ; Antonin Dvořak ; Johannes Brahms ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Giacomo Puccini ; Richard Wagner ; Gustav Mahler -- The twentieth century and beyond. Musical styles : 1900-1945 ; Music and musicians in society ; Impressionism and symbolism ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Neoclassicism ; Igor Stravinsky ; Expressionism ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Anton Webern ; Béla Bartók ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Charles Ives ; George Gershwin ; William Grant Still ; Aaron Copland ; Alberto Ginastera ; Musical styles since 1945 ; Music since 1945 : eight representative pieces -- Jazz. Jazz styles : 1900-1950 ; Ragtime ; Blues ; New Orleans style ; Swing ; Bebop ; Jazz styles since 1950 -- Music for stage and screen. Musical theater ; Leonard Bernstein ; Music in film -- Rock. Rock styles ; Rock in American society ; The Beatles -- Nonwestern music. Music in nonwestern cultures ; Music in sub-Saharan Africa ; Classical music of India ; Koto music of Japan.
• Accompanying CD 1. Lohengrin. Prelude to act III / Wagner -- Prelude in c minor for piano, op. 28, no. 20 / Chopin -- Firebird. Scene 2 / Stravinsky -- C jam blues / Ellington -- The young person's guide to the orchestra / Britten -- The stars and stripes forever / Sousa -- I got rhythm / Gershwin -- Unsquare dance / Brubeck -- Over the rainbow / Arlen -- Prelude in e minor for piano / Chopin -- L'Arlésienne suite, no. 2. Farandole / Bizet -- Nutcracker. Dance of the reed pipes / Tchaikovsky -- Suite in e minor for lute. Bourrée / Bach -- Alleluia : vidimus stellam / anon. -- O successores / Hildegard von Bingen -- Estampie / anon. -- Alleluia : nativitas = The birth / Perotin -- Ecco la primavera / Landini -- Puis qu'en oubli ; Notre Dame mass. Agnus dei / Machaut -- Ave Maria, virgo serena / Josquin -- Pope Marcellus mass. Kyrie / Palestrina -- As vesta was descending / Weelkes -- Flow my tears / Dowland.
• Accompanying CD 2. Terpsichore. Passamezo ; Galliard / Caroubel -- Plaudite / Gabrieli -- Concerto no. 5 in D major : Brandenburg. I-III ; Organ fugue in g minor / Bach -- Orfeo. Tu se' morta / Monteverdi -- Dido's lament / Purcell -- Trio sonata in a minor, op. 3, no. 10. I-II / Corelli -- The four seasons. La primavera. I-III / Vivaldi -- The well-tempered clavier, book 1. Prelude and fugue in c minor ; Suite no. 3 in D major, S. 1068. Air ; Bourrée ; Gigue ; Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. I, IV, VII / Bach.
• Accompanying CD 3. Messiah. Sinfonia ; Comfort ye ; Ev'ry valley shall be exalted ; For unto us a child is born ; Hallelujah chorus / Handel -- Symphony no. 40 in g minor / Mozart -- Symphony no. 94 in G major : surprise. I-II / Haydn -- Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart -- String quartet in c minor, op. 18, no. 4 / Beethoven -- Trumpet concerto in E-flat major / Haydn.
• Accompanying CD 4. Don Giovanni. Madamina ; Là ci darem la mano ; Piano concerto no. 23 in A major ; Requiem in d minor. Dies irae / Mozart -- Piano sonata in c minor, op. 13 : pathétique ; Symphony no. 5 / Beethoven.
• Accompanying CD 5. Erlkönig ; Die Forelle ; Piano quintet in A major : trout / Schubert -- Carnaval. Chiarina ; Chopin ; Estrella ; Reconnaissance (Reunion) / R. Schumann -- Romance in e-flat minor, op. 11, no. 1 / C.W. Schumann -- Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 ; Étude in c minor, op. 10, no. 12 : revolutionary ; Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53 / Chopin -- Transcendental étude no. 10 in f minor / Liszt -- Concerto for violin and orchestra in e minor / Mendelssohn -- Symphonie fantastique. IV, March to the scaffold ; V, Dream of a witches' sabbath / Berlioz -- Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky-Ravel.
• Accompanying CD 6. Romeo and Juliet. Overture-fantasy / Tchaikovsky -- The Moldau / Smetana -- Symphony no. 9 in e minor : from the new world / Dvorák -- Symphony no. 3 in F major ; A German requiem. How lovely is Thy dwelling place / Brahms -- Rigoletto / Verdi.
• Accompanying CD 7. La Bohème. Excerpt from Act I / Puccini -- Die Walküre. Act I. Love scene, conclusion / Wagner -- Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld / Mahler -- Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune ; Voiles / Debussy -- Bolero / Ravel -- Le sacre du printemps. Introduction, Omens of spring, Dances of the youths and maidens, Ritual of abduction, Sacrificial dance ; Symphony of psalms. First movement / Stravinsky.
• Accompanying CD 8. Pierrot lunaire = Moonstruck Pierrot ; A survivor from Warsaw / Schoenberg -- Wozzeck. Act III. Scenes 4-5 / Berg -- Five pieces for orchestra. Third piece / Webern -- Concerto for orchestra. I-II / Bartók -- Symphony no. 5 in d minor. II / Shostakovich -- Putnam's camp, Redding, Connecticut / Ives -- Afro-American symphony. Third movement / Still -- Rhapsody in blue / Gershwin -- Appalachian spring. Theme and variations on Simple gifts / Copland -- Estancia suite, op. 8. Malambo / Ginastera.
• Accompanying CD 9. Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano. Sonata II / Cage -- Poème électronique = Electronic poem / Varèse -- Threnody : to the victims of Hiroshima / Penderecki -- From where do you come, my love, my child? / Crumb -- Einstein on the beach. Knee-play I / Glass -- Concerto grosso 1985 / Zwilich -- Short ride in a fast machine / Adams -- Shard / Carter -- Maple leaf rag / Joplin -- Lost your head blues / Smith -- Dippermouth blues / Oliver -- Hotter than that / Armstrong -- Ko ko / Parker -- Miles runs the voodoo down / Davis -- West side story. America ; Tonight / Bernstein -- Ompeh / trad. -- Mitamba yalagala kumchuzi / anon. -- Maru-bihag / Shankar -- Godan binuta / Mitsuzaki Kengyo.

Call Number

JMF 13-610

ISBN

• 9780077433512 (alk. paper)
• 0077433513 (alk. paper)
• 9780078025082 (alk. paper)
• 0078025087 (alk. paper)
• 9780077377625 (CDs)
• 0077377621 (CDs)

LCCN

2010019136

OCLC

611967148

Author

Kamien, Roger.

Title

Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

Imprint

New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.

Edition

10th ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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JMF 13-610 [Text] Notes on file.

*LDC 52857 [CD]