Music Appreciation
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Music appreciation courses introduce students to the context and creative processes behind musical composition. These classes typically cover composers, musical instruments, ensembles, and styles from various eras, offering insights into the cultural and historical backdrop of the music. Designed primarily for non-music students, these courses teach how to analyze and respond to musical recordings or live performances, including symphonies, opera arias, and concertos. The focus is on fostering an understanding and appreciation of music's artistry and its role in society.
- 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.”
- 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.
Thumbnail: The large hall of the Wien Konzerthaus (Vienna Concert House). (CC BY-SA 3.0; Andreas Praefcke via Wikipedia)