Music: The Art of Listening - Softcover

Ferris, Jean

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9780697293848: Music: The Art of Listening

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069729384X ISBN 13: 9780697293848

Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S., 1998

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""Music: The Art of Listening is a practical, concise textbook for the beginning student of music history and appreciation, written in language readily understandable by a student with no previous music experience. Throughout the text, music is presented in its broad cultural and historical context, never as an isolated phenomenon divorced from the world surrounding it. Relationships are drawn between music and the other arts, with which students may have more familiarity, and between the music characteristic of one period and music of the distant past and of modern times."" - from the PrefaceEmphasizing practical teaching over theoretical instruction, "Music: The Art of Listening" is written in an engaging and open style enjoyable to professor and student alike. Notation in the fifth edition remains limited for ease-of-use by students who do not read music. This edition offers more detailed listening guides and new timed listening charts to make it even more accessible to students.

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Detailed Listening Guides: In lieu of text descriptions of musical selections, the fifth edition incorporates timed listening guides to navigate students through the music moment-by-moment. This will give students more confidence that they are hearing precisely what they are listening for.
Timeline: Covering musical, cultural and political events from the Middle Ages to the present, this feature helps students orient themselves in the flow of music history.
Musical Encounters: Within the traditional Appreciation model, Ferris addresses popular and world music with a Cultural Encounters section - a feature that compares music from other cultures to comparable Western forms. This approach introduces students to the music of the world, but in a context that better enables them to appreciate the similarities and differences between the world's music cultures.
Critical Thinking Questions: Concluding the chapters and the Musical Encounters, these questions encourage students to overcome their initial distance from music with which they may be unfamiliar and to begin thinking seriously about what they are hearing.
New music: Verdi's "Celeste Aida" and Vivaldi's "Primavera" concerto. Wagner's Liebestod replaces the "Prelude" to Tristan. A Dowland lute piece and a Couperin harpsichord piece have been added. The "Tonight" ensemble from the first act of Bernstein's West Side Story enhances the discussion of Broadway musicals.
Streamlined 20th century coverage: The information on twentieth-century concert music, overwhelming in the 4th ed., now concentrates on fewer composers and compositions.
The most World Music: Music: The Art of Listening features the largest repertoire of non-Western recordings available for the music appreciation course.
Reorganization: Brief chapter on musical form has been spread throughout the new edition, with musical examples offered at the time a particular formal design (opera, concerto, etc . . .) is introduced. Historical periods are covered in Part II (Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance), Part III (Baroque, Classical, and Romantic), and Part IV (Twentieth-Century Concert Music).

Part VI, Cultural Connections, offers the seven Musical Encounters (Japan, China, Africa, India, Islamic cultures, Native America, and one on the "new internationalism") placed where they need not interrupt a course devoted entirely to Western music, but where they are available for those who like to include non-Western concepts in their explanations of music.

Music in the Vernacular has been placed in Part V, and now includes information on Broadway musicals.

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Throughout this text, music is presented in its broad cultural and historical context, never as an isolated phenomenon divorced from the world surrounding it. Relationships are drawn between music and other arts, and between the music characteristics of one period and another.

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