Whether from a concert stage or in front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to connect with an audience. It is his unique combination of a performer?s musical sensibility and a teacher?s understanding of what works with students that has made Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition the most widely-used text of its kind. The clear presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen repertoire of musical selections, and insightful listening guides have been its hallmarks from the first edition. This revision is complemented by a refreshed program of musical selections on the CD sets.
Key Features
A listening program featuring high quality recordings of music discussed in the text is available on either a comprehensive 9-CD set or a brief 5-CD set
Listening Outlines and Vocal Music Guides within the text for students to follow as they listen to the recorded pieces
Richly illustrated part openers within the text provide historical and cultural context, and timelines, maps, and colour photos illustrate important events or works of art
Performance Perspective boxes highlight the role of performers in making music come alive. Featured are seven musicians whose performances appear on the CD sets
Digital Support
An Online Learning Centre provides additional teaching and learning resources to adopting schools, including:
listening software
activities and demonstrations
quizzes
outlines
an instructor?s manual
test bank
PowerPoint Presentations.
Key Features
Connect Kamien, a new web-based assignment and assessment platform, gives students the means to better connect with their coursework, their instructors, and with the important concepts that they will need to know for success in Music Appreciation. It incorporates interactive listening assignments and quizzes, streams the full music selections from the CD program through the online listening guides (complete pieces), includes video opera and film excerpts, an audio glossary, and much more. Connect Plus Kamien includes all of this and a complete interactive ebook of the text.
Downloads - All 72 selections from the 5 CD set are available as digital files for downloading. Files can be downloaded and then transferred onto students? preferred devices - CDs, MP3 players, phones ? for portability and listening convenience. Music selections in MP3 format are housed on a SONY partner site for downloading with access code.
New Part Summaries at the end of each part aid student learning in two important ways: 1.) Summaries of key terms, principal forms, main composers, and style features tie the chapters of each part together, and encourage student review and retention. 2.) "Beyond the Classroom" materials prepare the student for further listening outside the classroom by going beyond the musical pieces and composers directly discussed in the text.
A refreshed program of musical selections and new performances on the CD-sets provide instructors with new examples for teaching, including two examples of guitar music: A dance movement by Bach and "Shard" by Elliott Carter; "Flow my tears," a lute song by John Dowland; "Malambo" from the Estancia ballet suite by Ginastera, conducted by the dynamic Gustavo Dudamel; and Bernard Herrmann's score for a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo", using a clip from the film.
Expanded coverage of film music features a listening outline and film clip (accessible online) of the "tower scene" from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Interactive Glossary and Example Locator -- The Glossary and Example locator is now available both online and in the text. The online version has been loaded with clickable listening samples for the forms, styles, and instruments listed in the glossary.
A listening program featuring high quality recordings of music discussed in the text is available on either a comprehensive 9-CD set or a brief 5-CD set which can be packaged with the text for student purchase.
Listening Outlines and Vocal Music Guides within the text for students to follow as they listen to the recorded pieces focus attention on musical events as they unfold and help develop students' listening skills.
Time-tested and class-tested organization consisting of short chapters provides faculty with the flexibility to pick exactly what they want to cover and easily communicate that information to students.
Richly illustrated part openers within the text provide historical and cultural context. Timelines, maps, and color photos illustrate important events or works of art.
Performance Perspective boxes, highlighting the role of performers in making music come alive. Featured are 7 musicians whose performances appear on the CD set.
A text-specific Online Learning Center provides a link to listening software that works in conjunction with the audio CD set to bring the listening guides from the text to life, along with a wealth of additional teaching and learning resources. Student material includes activities and demonstrations, quizzes, outlines, and more. Instructor resources include an instructor's manual, test bank, computerized test bank, and PowerPoint Presentations. All online material can be integrated with leading course management systems.
Connect PLUS Kamien is packaged with the Kamien texts (either Brief 7e or 10e) at text net which means it can be packaged with the Kamien text at the same price as the text stand alone with a $1.75 packaging fee.
To purchase an electronic eBook version of this text, visit www.CourseSmart.com (ISBN 0-07-737774-5). This is a .pdf style eBook and does not include the streaming music. That is found only in Connect.
Table of Contents
Part I: Elements
1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
3 Rhythm
4 Music Notation
5 Melody
6 Harmony
7 Key
8 Musical Texture
9 Musical Form
10 Performance
11 Musical Style
Part II: The Middle Ages
1 Music an the Middle Ages (450-1450)
2 Gregorian Chant
3 Secular Music in the Middle Ages
4 The Development of Polyphony: Organum
5 Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in Italy and France
Part III: The Renaissance
1 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)
2 Sacred Music in the Renaissance
3 Secular Music in the Renaissance
4 The Venetian School: From Renaissance to Baroque
Part IV: The Baroque Period
1 Baroque Music (1600-1750)
2 Music in Baroque Society
3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
4 The Fugue
5 The Elements of Opera
6 Opera in the Baroque Era
7 Claudio Monteverdi
8 Henry Purcell
9 The Baroque Sonata
10 Arcangelo Corelli
11 Antonio Vivaldi
12 Johann Sebastion Bach
13 The Baroque Suite
14 The Chorale and Church Cantata
15 The Oratorio
16 George Frideric Handel
Part V: The Classical Period
1 The Classical Style
2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
3 Sonata Form
4 Theme and Variations
5 Minuet and Trio
6 Rondo
7 The Classical Symphony
8 The Classical Concerto
9 Classical Chamber Music
10 Joseph Haydn
11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Ludwig van Beethoven
Part VI: The Romantic Period
1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)
2 Romantic Composers and Their Public
3 The Art Song
4 Franz Schubert
5 Robert Schumann
6 Clara Wieck Schumann
7 Frederic Chopin
8 Franz Liszt
9 Felix Mendelssohn
10 Program Music
11 Hector Berlioz
12 Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music
13 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
14 Bedrich Smetana
15 Antonin Dvorak
16 Johannes Brahms
17 Giuseppe Verdi
18 Giacomo Puccini
19 Richard Wagner
20 Gustav Mahler
Part VII: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
1 Musical Styles: 1900-1945
2 Music and Musicians in Society
3 Impressionism and Symbolism
4 Claude Debussy
5 Maurice Ravel
6 Neoclassicism
7 Igor Stravinsky
8 Expressionism
9 Arnold Schoenberg
10 Alban Berg
11 Anton Webern
12 Bela Bartok
13 Dmitiri Shostakovich
14 Charles Ives
15 George Gershwin
16 William Grant Still
17 Aaron Copeland
18 Alberto Ginastera
19 Musical Styles Since 1945
20 Music Since 1945: Eight Representative Pieces
Part VIII: Jazz
1 Jazz Styles: 1900-1950
2 Ragtime
3 Blues
4 New Orleans Style
5 Swing
6 Bebop
7 Jazz Style Since 1950
Part IX: Music for Stage and Screen
1 Musical Theater
2 Leonard Bernstein
3 Music in Film
Part X: Rock
1 Rock Styles
2 Rock in American Society
3 The Beatles
Part XI: Nonwestern Music
1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures
2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa
3 Classical Music of India
4 Koto Music of Japan
Appendixes
1 Glossary and Example Locator
2 Tone Color and Harmonic Series
3 Bibliography and Selected Reading
Supplements
9-CD Set for Music: An Appreciation ISBN: 0077377621 Author(s): KAMIEN
Packaging for 9-CD Set ISBN: 0077435680 Author(s): KAMIEN
Study Guide for use with Music: An Appreciation, Brief ISBN: 0077438876 Author(s): KAMIEN
