Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition

Edition: 8, 2015©

Roger Kamien

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OVERVIEW
McGraw-Hill is revolutionizing the Music Appreciation course by introducing its first personalized digital learning
experience with Roger Kamien’s Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition. Using this market-leading instrument that
brings great music to the course in more ways than ever before, students are now transformed into active participants in
the Music Appreciation space. The result is active listening, active reading, and active learning.

FEATURES
New Features

Experience Active Listening with the new, completely reinvented Listening Outlines in Connect Music. Kamien's
online listening guides now allow students and instructors to seamlessly stream each chapter’s full music selections from
any device with a wireless or cellular connection, within Connect Mobile. The listening guides’ new modern design
continues to provide an interactive, visual representation of the piece's structure. And their new grading functionality
makes it even easier to gage whether a student listened to the full selection, while the auto-graded listening response
questions give further insight into what a student has heard in the piece.

Experience Active Reading with Smartbook for Kamien’s Music: An Appreciation, Brief. Available on its own or
within Connect Plus Music, McGraw-Hill SmartBook™ is the first and only adaptive reading experience designed to
change the way students read and learn. It creates a personalized reading experience by highlighting the most impactful
concepts a student needs to learn at that moment in time. As a student engages with SmartBook, the reading experience
adapts by highlighting content based on what the student knows and doesn’t know. This ensures that the focus is on the
content he or she needs to learn, while simultaneously promoting long-term retention of material.

Experience Active Learning with LearnSmart in Connect Music. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and a highly sophisticated
“smart” algorithm, LearnSmart creates a customized study plan, unique to every student’s demonstrated needs. Music
clips within Kamien’s LearnSmart allow students to apply their newly acquired chapter vocabulary, while allowing them to
practice and build their active listening skills. With virtually no administrative overhead, instructors using LearnSmart
report an increase in student performance by one letter grade or more.

A new Connect Music Correlation Guide for every Part of Kamien’s Music: An Appreciation, Brief allows instructors to
easily align the learning assets in Connect Music to their course objectives. Instructors are now able to decipher how each
interactivity in Connect Music aligns to the text’s topics and learning objectives. This results in Connect Music’s ability to
generate powerful reports, showing student progress toward key course outcomes.

New Virtual Field Trips in Music: An Appreciation, Brief prepare students to attend a musical performance or concert,
which is often the capstone of the Music Appreciation course. Accessible in the chapter margins via QR Code, students
are able to simulate this experience via their smartphone or tablet, without having to enter the concert hall. Virtual Field
Trip performance reports in Connect Music allow students to apply their knowledge in a written response.

New 8th Edition discussions of important musical elements and time periods include: New discussions of Melody
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and Words and Song Forms in Part 1, section 5 explain the complex connection between words and melody and how the
two combine to create song forms; Updates to the discussion of Music and Musicians in Society Since 1900 to include
coverage from 1950 to the present day in Part 6, section 2; And a new section on Music in America in Part 6, section 12
provides a brief overview of the American musical landscape and a context for discussion of representative American
composers, including Amy Beach and Eric Whitacre.

Accessing chapter audio selections on a computer or portable device is now easier than ever. The new edition of
Kamien's Music: An Appreciation, Brief delivers the music in three ways:

* Connect Music, where selections stream via computer, tablet, or smartphone in a simple audio player or through the
new interactive Listening Outlines.

* Mp3 download card, which instructors can opt to package with the text. Simply use the unique code printed on the card
to access and download all of the music to your music device of choice.

* Mp3 disc, which replaces the multi-disc audio CD set. This disc contains high-quality mp3s that can be uploaded to a
personal computer or other devices. Instructors can opt to package it with the text.

Retained Features

Part Summaries at the end of each part aid student learning in two important ways: 1.) Summaries of key terms, principal
forms, main composers, and style features tie the chapters of each part together, and encourage student review and
retention. 2.) "Beyond the Classroom" materials prepare the student for further listening outside the classroom by going
beyond the musical pieces and composers directly discussed in the text.

Listening Outlines and Vocal Music Guides within the text as well as Connnect Music for students to follow as they listen
to the recorded pieces focus attention on musical events as they unfold and help develop students' listening skills.

Time-tested and class-tested organization consisting of short chapters provides faculty with the flexibility to pick exactly
what they want to cover and easily communicate that information to students.

Richly illustrated part openers within the text provide historical and cultural context. Timelines, maps, and color photos
illustrate important events or works of art.

Performance Perspective boxes, highlighting the role of performers in making music come alive.

CONTENTS
Preface

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

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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 (1600-1750)

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 Sonata

10. Antonio Vivaldi

11. Johann Sebastian Bach

12. The Baroque Suite

13. The Chorale And Church Cantata

14. The Oratorio

15. 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

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4. Theme And Variations

5. Minuet And Trio

6. Rondo

7. The Classical Symphony

8. The Classical Concerto

9. Classical Chamber Music

10. Joseph Hadyn

11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

12. 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. Franz Schubert

5. Robert Schumann

6. Frederic Chopin

7. Franz Liszt

8. Felix Mendelssohn

9. Program Music

10. Hector Berlioz

11. Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Music

12. Antonin Dvorak

13. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

14. Johannes Brahms

15. Giuseppe Verdi

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16. Giacomo Puccini

17. Richard Wagner

Part VI The Twentieth Century

1. Musical Styles: 1900-1945

2. Music and Musicians in Society

3. Impressionism and Symbolism

4. Claude Debussy

5. Neoclassicism

6. Igor Stravinsky

7. Expressionism

8. Arnold Schoenberg

9. Alban Berg

10. Anton Webern

11. Bela Bartok

12. Music in America

13. Amy Beach

14. Charles Ives

15. George Gershwin

16. William Grant Still

17. Aaron Copland

18. Albert Ginestera

19. Musical Styles Since 1945

20. Music Since 1945: Five Representative Pieces

21. Jazz

22. Music for Stage and Screen

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23. Rock

Part VII Nonwestern Music

1. Music In Nonwestern Cultures

2. Music In Sub-Saharan Africa

3. Classical Music Of India

Appendixes

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roger Kamien
Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2
years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In
1983, he was appointed to his current position. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous
articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an
accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita.

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