Music Appreciation
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- 213964
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Music appreciation is designed to teach students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes involved in music composition. Music appreciation classes also typically include information about the composers, the instruments and ensembles, and the different styles of music from an era. Courses revolving around this material are often designed for non-music tertiary students. Students learn how to listen and respond to recordings or live performances of musical pieces or excerpts from pieces such as symphonies, opera arias and concertos.
- Music Appreciation (Mueller et al.)
- The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates naturally with the appreciator.
- Understanding Music - Past and Present (Clark et al.)
- Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.
- Music Appreciation I (Jones)
- Welcome to Music Appreciation. I think you’ve made a smart choice to spend some weeks studying some of the greatest music ever written. Consider for a moment how quickly a hit pop song passes from fashionable to forgotten. Those of us that have been out of high school or college more years than we care to remember have certainly had the experience of hearing a favorite anthem of our youth and thinking, “Oh yeah, that song! I’d forgotten that one.”
- Front Matter
- 1: Medieval and Renaissance
- 2: Baroque
- 3: Classical Genres
- 4: Classical Forms
- 5: Classical Composers
- 6: Early Romantic Era
- 7: Romantic Opera
- 8: Late Romantic Era
- 9: 20th Century- Impressionism, Expressionism, and Twelve-Tone
- 10: 20th Century- Introduction to Primitivism, Nationalism, and Neoclassicism
- 11: 20th Century- Aleatoric, Electronic, and Minimalist Music
- Back Matter
- Music Appreciation II (Kuznetsova)
- Music appreciation is designed to teach students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes involved in music composition. Music appreciation classes also typically include information about the composers, the instruments and ensembles, and the different styles of music from an era.
- Front Matter
- 1: Melody, Harmony, and Scales
- 2: Rhythm and Meter
- 3: Textures and Forms
- 4: Tempo and Dynamics
- 5: Classification of Human Voices
- 6: Musical Instrument Families
- 7: Musical Ensembles, Attending Concerts
- 8: The Middle Ages
- 9: The Renaissance
- 10: The Baroque Era, J. S. Bach
- 11: Baroque Opera, Cantata, Oratorio, G. F. Handel
- 12: Baroque Instrumental Music, A. Vivaldi
- 13: The Classical Era, Classical Forms and Symphony, J. Haydn
- 14: Classical Opera and Choral Music, W. A. Mozart
- 15: Classical Instrumental and Chamber Music, L. Beethoven
- Back Matter
Thumbnail: The large hall of the Wien Konzerthaus (Vienna Concert House). (CC BY-SA 3.0; Andreas Praefcke via Wikipedia)