Music: An Appreciation - Hardcover

Kamien, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073526568 ISBN 13: 9780073526560

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Synopsis

Through eight editions, Roger Kamien's Music: An Appreciation has become the most widely used text for Music Appreciation and Introduction to Music Literature courses. The author has approached his new ninth edition with the goal of re-examining the scholarship and refreshing the repertoire while maintaining the strengths that have made the book number one--the clear presentation of musical elements, the vivid depiction of music history, the carefully chosen musical examples, the detailed and informative Listening Outlines, and the unsurpassed supplements package.

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Additional Recordings: A fourth CD has been added to the brief audio set. The new set offers more than 90 minutes of additional music. The set now includes two COMPLETE multi-movement works (Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
New selections and listening guides include:
Ellington: C Jam Blues; Bach: "Forlane" from Orchestral Suite #1; Purcell: Dido's Lament; Berlioz: "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie Fantastique; Dvorak: New World Symphony (First movement); Brahms: "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" from The German Requiem; Schoenberg: "Mondestrunken" from Pierrot Lunaire; Still: Afro-American Symphony (Third Movement); Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (Sonata #2); Glass: "Kneeplay" from Einstein on the Beach; Smith: Lost Your Head Blues
Completely redesigned: In addition to a new format, the text is now four color throughout.
Cultural Perspectives: Each Part of the text now opens with a Perspective to provide historical and cultural context for each period. Additionally, new Timelines in each Part provide an illustration of contemporary events in social and political history.
Multimedia Companion CD-ROM: An upgrade of the Kamien 3.1 CD-ROM introduced last year, this extraordinary study tool includes The new version of this valuable resource now includes more than 5 hours of text-related music as well as Peter Schickele's "New Horizons in Music Appreciation," multimedia demonstrations of music elements, additional book content, self-tests, and more. It is included FREE with each copy of the text.
Complete Multimedia Support: In addition to the multimedia CD-ROM, the text is supported by an Online Learning Center with student quizzes, content, research links, chapter outlines, and more. Free ChartPlayer software can be downloaded from the site to use with the audio CD set.
More Instructor Support: In addition to the Annotated Instructor Edition, the Online Learning Center provides PowerPoint slides, technology "How to's", and templates for creating multimedia lectures.

About the Author

Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073526568
• ISBN 13: 9780073526560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 704