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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190938927
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190938925
• Author: R. Larry Todd

Make your Music Appreciation course as inspiring as the music it covers. Discovering Music, Second Edition, offers a compelling and contemporary guide that invites your students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond. The second edition features an expanded video program, additional coverage of women and minority composers, and new “Making Connections” sections that allow students to make connections with non-Western musical traditions. Please click the “Book Information” tab for detailed information on the text’s unique features.

Table contents:

PART I. THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

Chapter 1. Pitch, Melody, and Key

Chapter 2. Rhythm, Meter, Texture, and Dynamics

Chapter 3. Timbre, Instruments, and Ensembles

Chapter 4. Musical Form

Chapter 5. Learning How to Listen

PART II. THE MIDDLE AGES

Chapter 6. Origins of Medieval Music

Chapter 7. Music for the Christian Church

Chapter 8. Hildegard of Bingen

Chapter 9. Lonin and the Rise of Polyphony

Chapter 10. Secular Medieval Music

Chapter 11. Machaut and the Rise of Secular Polyphony

PART II SUMMARY

PART III. THE RENAISSANCE

Chapter 12. The Development of Renaissance Music

Chapter 13. Guillaume Dufay and the Franco-Flemish Style

Chapter 14. Josquin Desprez

Chapter 15. Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation

Chapter 16. New Currents: National Styles

Chapter 17. The Rise of Instrumental Music

 

PART III SUMMARY

PART IV. THE BAROQUE

Chapter 18. Elements of Baroque Music

Chapter 19. Claudio Monteverdi and the Rise of Italian Opera

Chapter 20. The Spread of Opera

Chapter 21. Baroque Instrumental Music

Chapter 22. Antonio Vivaldi

Chapter 23. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life and Career

Chapter 24. Bach’s Instrumental Music

Chapter 25. Bach’s Sacred Music

Chapter 26. George Frideric Handel

Chapter 27. Handel and the English Oratorio

Chapter 28. The End of the Baroque

 

PART IV SUMMARY

Chapter 29. Music in the Classical Period

Chapter 30. Genres and Forms in Classical Music

Chapter 31. Joseph Haydn

Chapter 32. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Chapter 33. Ludwig van Beethoven

PART VI. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Chapter 34. Music in the Romantic Period

Chapter 35. Art Song

Chapter 36. Piano Music

Chapter 37. Orchestral Music

Chapter 38. Romantic Opera

Chapter 39. Late Nineteenth-Century Music

 

PART VII. THE MODERN ERA

Chapter 41. The Modernist Revolution

Chapter 42. Neoclassicism

Chapter 43. National Styles

Chapter 44. American Music: Beginnings to Aaron Copland

Chapter 45. Jazz

Chapter 46. Film Music, Musicals, and Contemporary Popular Styles

Chapter 47. The Eclipse of Modernism: New Frontiers

 

PART VII SUMMARY

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