The World of Music - Softcover

Willoughby, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072491507 ISBN 13: 9780072491500

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2002

Synopsis

The "World of Music" offers a diverse and entertaining recordings package and an approach that emphasizes the progressive development of listening skills. Students are introduced to music elements through simpler music styles and familiar recordings and gradually build up to the most rigorous forms of Western music. The structure of the text provides an alternative to traditional music appreciation texts while still successfully investing readers with the skills necessary to listen to all music with knowledge and sophistication.

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From the Publisher:

Innovative format: Willoughby begins with vernacular and non-Western music and progresses into more complex Western compositions. Popular and world forms appear throughout the text instead of being discussed in a single, final chapter.
Excellent listening pedagogy: Each Study in Sound begins with Goals for listening and is followed by Reflections. These goals and reflections become increasingly sophisticated as students move through the text, resulting in the progressive development of their listening skills.
Student-friendly Music Examples: Students are introduced to concepts of meter, harmony, rhythm, phrase structure, etc' by music they are likely to have heard and know well. The prior edition presented these and many other elements with songs by Pete Seeger, Louis Armstrong, The Allman Brothers, and Little Richard, among others.
Strong World music component: Discussions of the music cultures of North and South America, as well as those of Asia and Africa, are integrated throughout the text.
The sequential development strategy: This new edition further refines the strategy that is the core of Willoughby's approach students are gradually invested with listening skills that build upon and reinforce one another. Basic but sometimes difficult elements are explained using simpler music styles. As the text progresses, the examples gain complexity until students are comfortably studying the most rigorous forms of Western art music.
New vocabulary is presented as needed: To reduce the daunting amount of vocabulary and elements in the early part of the course, significant terms are now presented as needed throughout the book. For example, terms and concepts unique to classical music are not presented until chapter 10 and beyond.
More Music: The Instructor's Recordings Package includes 92 musical examples on five CDs (9 more than the third edition). The Student's Package provides 44 listening examples, including several contemporary recordings. Among the additions are a performance by jazz pianist Bill Evans, and a recording from the key contemporary singer and producer, Babyface.
More American folk music, blues, and American religious music: Chapter 4, Folk Music and the Blues, now includes a discussion of urban blues and of the 1960s folk revival. In the audio package, this chapter is augmented by new recordings of Joan Baez, Taj Mahal, and B. B. King. Chapter 5 now discusses religious music both prior to the 20th century and during the 20th century, with an increased emphasis on contemporary popular religious music. New recordings for Chapter 5 include an example of Southern Gospel by The Chuck Wagon Gang and Contemporary Christian music by Sandi Patti.
More Western art music: The number of Western classical musical examples has been increased. Musical examples by Tallis (Anglican church music), Dowland (lute music), Corelli (concerto grosso), Mozart ("Dove sono," from Le Nozze di Figaro) and early 20th-century avant-garde music by Edvard Varése add balance to the presentation of Western classical music in the Record Set.
More World Music: Gamelan and Indonesian popular music styles have been added. The music of this vibrant culture has been added to the discussion of world music in chapter 9.

About the Author:

Dr. David Willoughby, Professor Emeritus of Music at Eastern New Mexico University and former Dean of its College of Fine Arts, retired in 1993 after twenty years of service. He moved to Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and immediately was named Head of the Music Department at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, a position he held for three years. From 1970-1973, he held the position of Assistant Director of the Ford Foundation/ MENC Contemporary Music Project, where, among other responsibilities, he served as Editor of the CMP Newsletter. From 1960-1970, he was Assistant/Associate Professor of Music at Elizabethtown College. Willoughby is now Minister of Music at the Church of the Brethren in Elizabethtown, where he directs the Adult Choir and the Bell Choir. He continues to play double bass and serves as Editor of the Newsletter of The College Music Society (CMS). The fourth edition of his book, The World of Music, has just been published by McGraw-Hill. Regarding CMS, he serves on the Council of Past Presidents, having served as President in 1987 and 1988. Previously, he was Board member for Music and General Studies (1980-1985) and a member of the Executive Committee (1986-1989). He served as Director of the Wingspread Conference on Music in General Studies (1981) and of the first four summer Institutes for Music in General Studies, Boulder, Colorado (1982-1985). (It was this Conference on Music in General Studies and these Institutes that prompted the first conversations, in 1985, that led to the first edition of The World of Music.)

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072491507
• ISBN 13: 9780072491500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 416