Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition: 2025 Release ISE
PART I Elements
1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
3 Rhythm
4 Music Notation
5 Melody
6 Harmony
7 Key
8 Musical Texture
9 Musical Form
10 Musical Style
PART II The Middle Ages and Renaissance
1 Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450)
2 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)
PART III The Baroque Period
1 Baroque Music
2 Music in Baroque Society
3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
4 The Fugue
5 The Elements of Opera
6 Opera in the Baroque Era
7 Claudio Monteverdi
8 Henry Purcell
9 The Baroque Cantata
10-11 Barbara Strozzi, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
12 The Baroque Sonata
13-14 Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach
15 The Baroque Suite
16 The Chorale and Church Cantata
17 The Oratorio
18 George Frideric Handel
PART IV The Classical Period
1 The Classical Style (1750-1820)
2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
3 Sonata Form
4 Theme and Variations
5 Minuet and Trio
6 Rondo
7 The Classical Symphony
8 The Classical Concerto
9 The Symphone Concertane (new)
10. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (new)
11 Classical Chamber Music
12-14 Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven
PART V The Romantic Period
1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)
2 Romantic Composers and Their Public
3 The Art Song
4-10 Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
11 Program Music
12 Hector Berlioz
13 Nationalism in Nineteenth- Century Music
14-20 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvo?ák, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner
PART VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond
1 Musical Styles: 1900-1945
2 Music and Musicians in Society since 1900
3 Impressionism and Symbolism
4-6 Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger
7 Primitivism
8 Igor Stravinsky
9 Neoclassicism
10 Sergei Prokofiev
11 Expressionism
12-14 Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Béla Bartók
15 Music in America
16-21 Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Florence Price (New), William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera
22 Musical Styles since 1945
23 Music since 1945: Ten Representative Pieces
24 Jazz
25 Music for Stage and Screen
26 Popular Music Genres
PART VII Nonwestern Music
1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures
2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa
3 Classical Music of India
Music: An Appreciation, Brief welcomes nonmajors to the art of listening to great music. Roger Kamien continues to focus on coverage of the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. The latest release of Music: An Appreciation equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills to build a lifelong enthusiasm for music. Acknowledging that music isn't created in a void, the text grounds each of the periods and styles covered (Parts II-XI) in the historical and cultural events of the period, and illustrates other artistic products (fine art, literature, theatre) that were being created concurrently. New recordings have been added to the new edition. All selections can be accessed in McGraw Hill Connect®, or students can purchase an access card that allows them to download MP3 files of selections.