Summary
Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music.This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students' attention on musical events as they unfold.Every new copy of the fifth edition is packaged free with the outstanding Multimedia Companion CD-ROM Version 5.0, which makes the study of music easier, more rewarding, and more fun. In addition, the fifth brief edition introduces "Performance Perspectives" boxes and includes revised sections on Jazz and Rock, a new section on music in film, and more!
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I Elements
1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
Pitch: Highnessor Lowness of Sound
Dynamics
Tone Color
Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound
The Firebird, Scene 2 by Igor Stravinsky
LISTENING OUTLINE
C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
LISTENING OUTLINE
2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
Voices
Musical Instruments
String Instruments
Woodwind Instruments
Brass Instruments
Percussion Instruments
Keyboard Instruments
Electronic Instruments
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34, by Benjamin Britten
LISTENING OUTLINE
3. Rhythm
Beat
Meter
Accent and Syncopation
Tempo
4. Music Notation
Notating Pitch
Notating Rhythm
Notating Silence (Rests)
Notating Meter
The Score
5. Melody
6. Harmony
Consonance and Dissonance
The Triad
Broken Chords (Arpegios)
Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No.4, by Frederic Chopin
LISTENING OUTLINE
PEFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Roger Kamien playing Chopin's Prelude in E Minor
7. Key
The Major Scale
The Minor Scale
The Key Signature
The Chromatic Scale
Modulation: Change of Key
Tonic Key
8. Musical Texture
Monophonic Texture
Polyphonic Texture
Homophonic Texture
Changes of Texture
Farandole from L'Arlsienne (The Woman from Arles) Suite No.2, by Georges Bizet
LISTENING OUTLINE
9. Musical Form
Techniques That Create Musical Form
Repetition
Contrast
Variation
Types of Musical Form
Three-Part (Ternary) Form: A B A
Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker Suite, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
LISTENING OUTLINE
Two-Part (Binary) Form: A B
Contradance No. 7 in E Flat from Twelve Contradances for Orchestra, by Ludwig van Beethoven
LISTENING OUTLINE
Listening for Form
10. Musical Style
Part II The Middle Ages and Renaissance
1. Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450)
Gregorian Chant
The Church Modes
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We have seen his star)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
O Successores (You successors) by Hildegard of Bingen
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
Secular Music in the Middle Ages
Estampie
The Development of Polyphony: Organum
School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm
Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in France
Guilaume de Machaut
Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous (Since I am forgotten by you)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
Notre Dame Mass: Agnus Dei
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Andrew Parrott conducting the Agnus Dei from Machaut's Notre Dame Mass
2. Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)
Characteristics of Renaissance Music
Word and Music
Texture
Rhythm and Melody
Sacred Music in the Renaissance
Josquin Desprez and the Renaissance Motet
Ave Maria...virgo serena (Hail Mary...serene virgin)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
Palestrina and the Renaissance Mass
Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie
Secular Music in the Renaissance
Vocal Music: The Renaissance Madrigal
As Vesta Was Descending, by Thomas Weelkes
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
Instrumental Music
Passamezzo and Galiard, by Pierre Fransisque Caroubel, from Terpsichore, by Michael Praetorius
Part III The Baroque Period
1. Baroque Music (1600-1750)
Characteristics of Baroque Music
Unity of Mood
Rhythm
Melody
Dynamics
Texture
Chords and the Basso Continuo (Figured Bass)
Words and Music
The Baroque Orchestra
Baroque Forms
2. Music in Baroque Society
3. The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach: First Movement
LISTENING OUTLINE
4. The Fugue
Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue), by Johann Sebastian Bach
LISTENING OUTLINE
5. The Elements of Opera
6. Opera in the Baroque Era
7. Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo (Orpheus)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Tu se morta (You are dead)
8. Henry Purcell
Ground Bass
Dido and Aeneas
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE: Dido's Lament
9. The Baroque Sonata
Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op.3, No.10, by Arcangelo Corelli
10. Antonio Vivaldi
La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op.8, No.1, from The Four Seasons
LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Violinist Jeanne Lamon plays and conducts Vivaldi's 'Spring' Concerto
11. Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's Music
12. The Baroque Suite
Suite No.3 in D Major, by Johann Sebastian Bach
13. The Chorale and Church Cantata
The Church Cantata
Cantata No.140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake, a voice is calling us) by Johann Sebastian Bach
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Fourth Movement; Seventh Movement
14. The Oratorio
15. George Frideric Handel
Handel's Music
Messiah
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDES: Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted; Hallelujah Chorus
Part IV The Classical Period
Performance Perspective: Murray Perahia
1. The Classical Style (1750-1820)
Characteristics of the Classical Style
Contrast of Mood
Rhythm
Texture
Melody
Dynamics and the Piano
The End of the Basso Continuo
The Classical Orchestra
Classical Forms
2. Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
Vienna
3. Sonata Form
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
Coda
Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First Movement
LISTENING OUTLINE
4. Theme and Variations
Symphony No.94 in G Major (Surprise), by Joseph Haydn: Second Movement
LISTENING OUTLINE
5. Minuet and Trio
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Third Movement
LISTENING OUTLINE
6. Rondo
String Quartet in C Minor, Op.18, No.4, by Ludwig van Beethoven: Fourth Movement
LISTENING OUTLINE
7. The Classical Symphony
8. The Classical Concerto
9. Classical Chamber Music
10. Joseph Hadyn
Haydn's Music
Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major: Third Movement
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart's Music
Don Giovanni
Act I: Excerpt from Opening Scene
Act 1: Madamina (Leporello's catalog aria)
Symphony No.40 in G. Minor, K.550
Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major, K.488
LISTENING OUTLINE: First Movement
PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVE: Pianist Murray Perahia playing and conducting the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488
12. Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven's Music
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op.13 (Pathtique)
Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67
LISTENIG OUTLINES: First Movement; Second Movement
Part V The Romantic Period
1. Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)
Characteristics of Romantic Music
Individuality of Style
Expressive Aims and Subjects
Nationalism and Exoticism
Program Music
Expressive Tone Color
Colorful Harmony
Expanded Range of Dynamics, Pitch, and Tempo
Forms: Miniature and Monumental
2. Romantic Composers and Their Public
3. The Art Song
Strophic and Through-Composed Form
The Song Cycle
4. Franz Schubert
Schubert's Music
Erlknig (The Erlking)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
5. Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann's Music
Carnaval
6. Clara Wieck Schumann
Clara Wieck Schumann's Music
Liebst du um Schnheit (If you love for beauty)
VOCAL MUSIC GUIDE
7. Frdric Chopin
Chopin's Music
Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op.9, No.2
LISTENING OUTLINE
tude in C Minor, Op.9, No.12
LISTENING OUTLINE
Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op.53
8. Franz Liszt
Liszt's Music
Transcendental tude No.10 in F Minor
9. Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn's Music
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op.64: First Movement
10. Program Music
11. Hector Berlioz
Berlioz's Music
Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony)
LISTENING OUTLINE: Fourth Movement
12. Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music
The Moldau, by Bedřich Smetana
LISTENING OUTLINE
13. Antonin Dvořk
Symphony No.9 in E Minor (From the New World)
LISTENING OUTLINE
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