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The enjoyment of music /

Title:
The enjoyment of music /
Author:
Forney, Kristine, author.
Format:
Book, Image
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Part 1. Materials of music. Listening to music ; Melody : musical line ; Rhythm and meter : musical time ; Harmony : musical depth ; The organization of musical sounds ; Musical texture ; Musical form ; Musical expression: tempo and dynamics ; Text and music ; Voices and instrument families ; Western musical instruments ; Musical ensembles ; Style and function of music in society ; Putting music into words -- Part 2. The Middle Ages and Renaissance. Music as commodity and social activity ; Voice and worship : tradition and individuality in medieval chant ; Layering lines : polyphony at Notre Dame ; Symbols and puzzles : Machaut and the medieval mind ; Singing in friendship : the Renaissance madrigal ; Remember me : personalizing the motet in the Renaissance ; Glory be : music for the Renaissance mass ; Instrumental movements : medieval and Renaissance dance music -- Part 3. The Baroque era. Music as exploration and drama ; Voicing gender : women composers in Baroque Italy ; Performing grief : Purcell and early opera ; Musical sermons : Bach and the Lutheran cantata ; Textures of worship : Handel and the English oratorio ; Independent study : Billings and the North American sacred tradition ; Grace and grandeur : the Baroque dance suite ; Sounding spring : Vivaldi and the Baroque concerto ; Process as meaning : Bach and the fugue -- Part 4. Eighteenth-century classicism. Music as order and logic ; Musical conversations : Haydn and classical chamber music ; The ultimate instrument : Haydn and the symphony ; Expanding the conversation : Mozart, chamber music, and larger forms ; Conversation with a leader : the classical concerto ; Personalizing the conversation : Beethoven and the classical sonata ; Disrupting the conversation : Beethoven and the symphony in transition ; Making it real : Mozart and classical opera ; Mourning a hero : Mozart and the Requiem -- Part 5. The nineteenth century. Music as passion and individualism ; Musical reading : Schubert, Schumann, and the early romantic Lied ; Marketing music : Foster and early "popular" song ; Dancing at the keyboard : Chopin and romantic piano music ; Musical diaries : Hensel and programmatic piano music ; Personal soundtracks : Berlioz and the program symphony ; Sounding literature : orchestral program music by Mendelssohn and Grieg ; Absolutely classic : Brahms and the nineteenth-century symphony ; Multimedia hits : Verdi and Italian romantic opera ; Total art : Wagner and German romantic opera ; Poetry in motion : Tchaikovsky and the ballet ; Exotic allure : Puccini and the Italian Verismo tradition ; Accepting death : Faurâe and the Requiem ; Mythical impressions : program music at the end of the nineteenth century ; Jubilees and jubilation : the African American spiritual tradition ; A good beat : American vernacular music at the close of an era -- Part 6. Twentieth-century modernism. Making music modern ; Anything goes : Schoenberg and musical expressionism ; Calculated shock : Stravinsky and modernist multimedia ; Still sacred : religious music in the twentieth century ; War is hell : Berg and expressionist opera ; American intersections : jazz and blues traditions ; Modern America : still and musical modernism in the United States ; Modern experiments : Gershwin and "cultivated jazz" ; Sounds American : Ives, Copland, and musical nationalism ; Also American : Revueltas and Mexican musical modernism ; Classic rethinking : Bartâok and the neo-classical turn -- Part 7. Postmodernism : the mid-twentieth century and beyond. Beyond modernism? ; New sound palettes : mid-twentieth-century American experimentalists ; Staged sentiment : Bernstein and American musical theater ; Less is more : Reich and minimalist music ; Rolling Beethoven over : roots and reworkings of rock ; Returning with interest : Bowie, Glass, and postmodern elaboration ; Neo-romantic evocations : Higdon and program music into the twenty-first century ; Understanding meaning : Williams and music for film ; Icons in sound : Tavener and postmodern orthodoxy ; Reality shows : Adams and contemporary opera.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
MT90 .M23 2018 – Available