The Enjoyment of Music (11th ed.)

The eleventh edition builds on the book?s strengths in a thoughtful revision that offers a more diverse repertory and a stronger emphasis on the cultural significance of musical styles and periods. Responding to the needs of today?s students, powerful new multimedia learning tools have been integrated into the text, including the Student Resource CD?ROM, StudySpace and the Online Listening Lab.

CONTENIDO:

Part 1 Materials of Music
Prelude 1: Listening to Music Today
- Melody: Musical Line
- Rhythm and Meter: Musical Time
- Harmony: Musical Space
- The Organization of Musical Sounds
- Musical Texture
- Music Form
- Musical Expression: Tempo and Dynamics
- Voices and Musical Instrument Families
- Western Musical Instruments
- Musical Ensembles
- Style and Function of Music in Society

Part 2 Medieval and Renaissance Music
Prelude 2: The Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Sacred Music of the Middle Ages
- Secular Music of the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Sacred Music
- Renaissance Secular Music

Part 3 The Baroque Era
Prelude 3: The Baroque Spirit
- Baroque Opera and Its Components
- The Baroque Cantata and Oratorio
- Baroque Instruments and the Suite
- The Baroque Concerto
- Other Baroque Instrumental Music

Part 4 Eighteenth-Century Classicism
Prelude 4: Classicism in the Arts
- The Development of Classical Forms
- Classical Chamber Music
- The Classical Symphony
- The Classical Concerto
- The Sonata in the Classical Era
- Classical Choral Music and Opera

Part 5 The Nineteenth Century
Prelude 5: The Spirit of Romaticism
- Song in the Romantic Era
- Romantic Piano Music
- Music in Nineteenth-Century America
- Romantic Program Music
- Absolute Music in the Nineteenth Century
- National Schools of Romantic Opera
- Late Romantic and Post-Romantic Music

Part 6 Impressionism and the Early Twentieth Century
Prelude 6: Modernism in the Arts
- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Early Modern Musical Style
- Music of the Early Modernists
- European National Schools
- American Modernism in Music
- Nationalism in the Americas

Part 7 Music Beyond the Concert Hall
Prelude 7: The Rise of American Popular Styles
- Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz
- Musical Theater
- Music for Films
- The Many Voices of Rock

Part 8 World War II and Beyond
Prelude 8: New Directions in the Arts
- The New Virtuosity of the Modern Age
- Contemporary Composers Look to World Music
- Technology and Music
- Some Current Trends