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W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
501

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Subjects
Music appreciation, Appréciation, Musique, Musical analysis

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The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening
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Table of Contents

By way of introduction
Music and life: the sources of musical imagery
Melody: musical line
Harmony: musical space
Rhythm: musical time
Tempo: musical pace
Dynamic: musical volume
Instruments of the orchestra
The orchestra
Form: musical structure and design
Musical style
Musical notation
The Romantic movement
Romanticism in music
The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Frédéric Francois Chopin
The nature of program music
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer night's dream
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Liszt: Les préludes
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Nationalism and the Romantic movement
The symphony
Dvorák: New world symphony
The concerto
Two Romantic concertos
The nature of opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Three Romantic operas
The organization of musical sounds: key and scale
The major-minor system
The development of themes: musical logic
The sonata: the first movement
The sonata, continued: the other movements
The classical spirit
Classicism in music
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Classical chamber music
From classical to Romantic: Schubert's Unfinished
Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The Baroque
Main currents in Baroque music
Two seventeenth-century composers
Baroque instrumental music
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
From Baroque to classical
Transition to a new age
Mahler: Symphony no. 4
Impressionism
Claude Debussy
Postromantic composers
Main currents in twentieth-century music
New elements of style
New conceptions of tonality
Igor Stravinsky
Béla Bartók
Arnold Schoenberg
Between the wars
The past
Emergence of the modern American school
American composers
American jazz / Martin Williams
New directions
Composers of our time.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 459-466.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780.15
Library of Congress
MT6 .M134 1970, MT6 .M134 1955, MT6 .M134 1957

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 501 p.
Number of pages
501

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24206271M
Internet Archive
enjoymentofmusi00mach
ISBN 10
0393099296, 0393099407
ISBN 13
9780393099294, 9780393099409
LCCN
55014480, 57006038, 77090980
OCLC/WorldCat
420876, 90941

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