Research Catalog

Title

Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

Author

Kamien, Roger.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c1998.

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Details

Description

xxv, 454 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music; 23 cm.

Subject

Music appreciation

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes discography (p. 430-437) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Of CD 1 : Lohengrin, Prelude to act III / Wagner -- Take the "A" train / Strayhorn -- The young person's guide to the orchestra / Britten -- Farandole from L Arle sienne, Suite no. 2 / Bizet -- Dance of the reed pipes from Nutcracker suite / Tchaikovsky -- Gavotte from French suite no. 5 in G major / Bach -- Alleluia, vidimus stellam -- O successores / Hildegard of Bingen -- Agnus Dei from Notre Dame mass / Machaut -- Ave Maria ... virgo serena / Josquin Desprez -- As Vesta was descending / Weelkes -- Brandenburg concerto no. 5 in D major, First movement (allegro) / Bach -- Organ fugue in g minor (Little fugue) / Bach -- Tu se morta from Orfeo / Monteverdi -- La Primavera, concerto for violin and string orchestra, from The four seasons, First movement (allegro) / Vivaldi -- Cantata no. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Fourth movement tenor chorale [&] Seventh movement chorale) / Bach --^
• Messiah (Evry valley shall be exalted [&] Hallelujah chorus) / Haydn. Contents of CD 2: Symphony no. 40 in g minor, First movement (molto allegro) / Mozart -- Symphony no. 94 in G major (Surprise), Second movement (andante) / Haydn -- Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Third movement (minuet) / Mozart -- String quartet in c minor, Opus 18 no. 4, Fourth movement (rondo) / Beethoven -- Don Giovanni, Act I: Introduction (opening scene) / Mozart -- Piano concerto no. 23 in A major, First movement (allegro) / Mozart -- Symphony no. 5 in c minor, First movement (allegro con brio) / Beethoven -- Erlko?nig / Schubert -- Nocturne in E flat major, Opus 9 no. 2 / Chopin -- Etude in c minor, Opus 10 no. 12 (Revolutionary) / Chopin -- Symphonie fantastique, Fourth movement: March to the scaffold / Berlioz -- The Moldau / Smetana. Contents of CD 3 : Symphony no. 4 in e minor, Fourth movement (allegro energetico e passionato) / Brahms --^
• La Bohe?me, Act I, excerpt (Mimi's entrance through end of Rudolpho's aria) / Puccini -- Die Walkure, Act I (love scene, conclusion) / Wagner -- Prelude a L Apre's-midi dun faune / Debussy -- Le Sacre du printemps, Part I: Introduction ; Omens of spring ; Dances of the youths and maidens ; Ritual of abduction / Stravinsky -- A survivor from Warsaw / Schoenberg -- Third piece from Five pieces for orchestra, Opus 10 / Webern -- Concerto for orchestra, Second movement: Game of pairs / Bartok -- Appalachian spring, Section 7 (Theme and variations on Simple gifts) / Copland -- Concerto grosso 1985, First movement / Zwilich -- Sextet, Third movement / Reich -- Ritual melodies, excerpt / Harvey -- Title song from Oklahoma! / Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Song from Angola -- Maru-Bihag, Introductory section / Ravi Shankar.

ISBN

0070365210

LCCN

^^^97073723^/MN

OCLC

• 37221018
• SCSB-10498047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library