W.W. Norton & Co. Inc Listen (Eighth Edition) - Kerman/Kerman/Tomlinson - Book/CD/Media Online

Authors: Vivian Kerman, Joseph Kerman, Gary Tomlinson
Format: Paperback with Digital Product License Key Folder and Audio CD (With Total Access registration card)
Version: Text

A classic music-appreciation text made fresh for today's students.

Listen makes music accessible to all, with its concise historical and cultural context, compelling composer biographies, and clear Listening Charts. The redesigned Eighth Edition incorporates new perspectives on music since 1900, new repertory, and illuminating discussions to help students synthesize the important concepts of classical music and develop the listening skills to explore it further.

ENGAGING DISCUSSIONS
Since Listen's original publication in 1972, it has received praise for its distinctive lively prose. The authors enliven discussions of individual works with an authority that is full of warmth and the occasional flash of humour. Additional features that support this superb narrative include Listening Charts and Listening Exercises, which are available online in interactive form to facilitate student comprehension.

AN EMPHASIS ON THE COMMON-PRACTICE REPERTORY - MUSIC MOST LIKELY ENCOUNTERED IN CONCERTS
Listen focuses on music from the time of Bach through the twentieth century. After Unit I (Fundamentals), the historical scheme goes from "early music" - everything before Bach and Handel, when the standard repertory begins - to the three great periods of Western classical music: the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century to the present. Unit II (Early Music: An Overview) is independent of the rest of the text and can be omitted by instructors wishing to do so.

STRONG COVERAGE OF HISTORY AND CULTURE
Listen provides the context needed to get the most out of the material:

• Four Prelude chapters--one for each of the major stylistic eras--contain accounts of musical styles of the time and highlights the cultural aspects that stood in close relation.
• Biography boxes on the lives of major composers include portraits, concise lists of their work, and suggestions for further listening.
• Time lines (Appendix A) locate composers in relation to other important historical figures and events.
• Seven Global Perspectives explore musical traditions outside the western world to elaborate on the European and American topics discussed and highlight the shared common tendencies of music making worldwide.

TOTAL ACCESS
Each copy of the print text contains access to all the streaming audio, interactive listening guides, video resources - including excerpts from the Metropolitan Opera - the complete ebook, and more. Total Access is also available as a standalone purchase online.

Contents:

• Preface: To the Instructor
• Introduction: To the Student
• UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS
  • CHAPTER 1 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
  • CHAPTER 2 Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
  • CHAPTER 3 Scales and Melody
  • CHAPTER 4 Harmony, Texture, Tonality, and Mode
  • CHAPTER 5 Musical Form and Musical Style
• UNIT II EARLY MUSIC: AN OVERVIEW
  • Chronology
  • CHAPTER 6 The Middle Ages
  • Global Perspectives Sacred Chant
  • CHAPTER 7 The Renaissance
  • Global Perspectives Music and Early European Colonialism
  • CHAPTER 8 The Early Baroque Period
  • Global Perspectives African Ostinato Forms
• UNIT III THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  • Chronology
  • CHAPTER 9 Prelude: The Late Baroque Period
  • CHAPTER 10 Baroque Instrumental Music
  • CHAPTER 11 Baroque Vocal Music
  • CHAPTER 12 Prelude: Music and the Enlightenment
  • CHAPTER 13 The Symphony
  • CHAPTER 14 Other Classical Genres
  • Global Perspectives Musical Form: Two Case Studies from Asia
• UNIT IV THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • Chronology
  • CHAPTER 15 Beethoven
  • CHAPTER 16 Prelude: Music after Beethoven: Romanticism
  • CHAPTER 17 The Early Romantics
  • CHAPTER 18 Romantic Opera
  • CHAPTER 19 The Late Romantics
  • Global Perspectives Musical Drama Worldwide
• UNIT V THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
  • Chronology
  • CHAPTER 20 Prelude: Music and Modernism
  • CHAPTER 21 Early Modernism
  • CHAPTER 22 Modernism between the Wars
  • CHAPTER 23 The Late Twentieth Century
  • CHAPTER 24 Music in America: Jazz and Beyond
  • Global Perspectives Global Music
• Appendix A Time Lines
• Appendix B Musical Notation
• Glossary of Musical Terms