Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 934 g
Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 934 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-761115-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Discovering Music offers the context that students need to appreciate music, in a concise format that is visually appealing. Written to inspire students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond, the text is supported by a suite of digital resources, including new How to Listen pedagogy that helps students deepen their listening experience.
The book opens with an introduction to the musical elements; the instruments of the orchestra; and a discussion of how to listen to music. New Learn to Listen pedagogy helps students experience and understand the elements of music. Then, each musical era is highlighted in individual parts, with a brief introduction to the key composers and developments that occurred in music and the related arts. Interactive Listening Maps offer guidance to students on how and why to listen to each work.
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- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I The Elements of Music
- The Listening Experience
- Musical Elements: An Overview
- What Is Classical Music?
- timeline
- CHAPTER 1 Pitch, Melody, and Key
- Pitch
- Notating Pitch
- making connections: The Physics of Sound: The Octave
- Melody
- making connections: The Ancient Greeks and Consonances
- Key
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 2 Rhythm, Meter, Texture, and Dynamics
- Rhythmic Values
- Tempo Markings
- making connections: The Metronome
- Pulse or Beat
- Measures
- Texture
- Harmony
- Tonality
- Dynamics
- making connections: The Sound of Silence
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 3 Timbre, Instruments, and Ensembles
- Timbre
- The Voice
- The Family of Musical Instruments
- Musical Ensembles
- Benjamin Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946)
- check your knowledge
- listening map 1: Benjamin Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra [1946]
- CHAPTER 4 Musical Form
- Binary and Ternary Form
- making connections: Musical Form in Architecture and Painting
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 5 Learning How to Listen
- Listening to Hamilton, "My Shot"
- Mapping the Listening Experience
- listening map 2: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, "My Shot" [2015]
- check your knowledge
- part i summary
- PART II?The Middle Ages
- Why Listen to Medieval Music?
- timeline
- Milestones of the Medieval Era
- CHAPTER 6 Origins of Medieval Music
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 7 Music for the Christian Church
- Gregorian Chant
- The Divine Office and the Mass
- Medieval Christmas Music: Viderunt omnes
- check your knowledge
- listening map 3: Anonymous, Viderunt omnes ("All the Ends of the Earth") [fifth century]
- CHAPTER 8 Hildegard of Bingen
- listening map 4: Hildegard of Bingen, O viridissima virga ("O Greenest Branch") [twelfth century]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 9 Léonin and the Rise of Polyphony
- making connections: Gothic Cathedrals and Polyphonic Architecture
- check your knowledge
- listening map 5: Léonin, First Respond from Viderunt omnes ("All the Ends of the Earth") [twelfth century]
- CHAPTER 10 Secular Medieval Music
- Musical Instruments
- Secular Medieval Song
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 11 Machaut and the Rise of Secular Polyphony
- check your knowledge
- listening map 6: Guillaume de Machaut, Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous ("Since you have forgotten me") [ca. 1365]
- part ii summary
- global connections:
- Myanmar: Buddhist Chant and Ritual Music
- making connections: Music for Celebrations
- PART III The Renaissance
- Why Listen to Renaissance Music?
- Humanism
- Rebirth
- timeline
- Classical Revival
- Artists as Individual Creators
- Transition to Modernity
- CHAPTER 12 The Development of Renaissance Music
- making connections: The Renaissance Rediscovers Classical Antiquity
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 13 Guillaume Dufay and the Franco-Flemish Style
- making connections: Brunelleschi's Dome
- listening map 7: Guillaume Dufay, Mass Se la face ay pale, Kyrie [ca. 1450]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 14 Josquin Desprez
- making connections: Lorenzo the Magnificent
- check your knowledge
- listening map 8: Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria [ca. 1485]
- CHAPTER 15 Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation
- making connections: Martin Luther and the Reformation
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 16 New Currents: National Styles
- The Italian Madrigal
- making connections: Art Imitates Life: The Shocking Music of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa
- The English Madrigal
- listening map 9: Thomas Weelkes, "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending" [1601]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 17 The Rise of Instrumental Music
- making connections: The English Reformation
- listening map 10: William Byrd, "Pavana Lachrymae" for harpsichord solo, based on John Dowland's lute song "Flow My Tears" [ca. 1600]
- check your knowledge
- part iii summary
- global connections:
- Bali: Gamelan Music
- making connections: The Gamelan and the West
- PART IV The Baroque
- Why Listen to Baroque Music?
- Baroque Art and Architecture
- The Musical Legacy of the Baroque
- timeline
- CHAPTER 18 Elements of Baroque Music
- The Development of Tonality
- The Basso Continuo
- Melody, Rhythm, and Dynamics in Baroque Music
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 19 Claudio Monteverdi and the Rise of Italian Opera
- making connections: St. Mark's Basilica, Venice
- making connections: Orfeo and the Rise of the Orchestra
- listening map 11: Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, Act III, "Possente spirto" ("O Powerful Spirit"), excerpt [1607]
- Barbara Strozzi and the Chamber Cantata
- listening map 12: Barbara Strozzi, "Voglio morire" ("I Wish to Die") from L'Amante segreto (The Secret Lover) [1651]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 20 The Spread of Opera
- Opera in France
- making connections: Music as Royal Power: Lully at the Court of Louis XIV
- Henry Purcell and English Opera
- check your knowledge
- listening map 13: Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Act III, "When I Am Laid in Earth" [1689]
- CHAPTER 21 Baroque Instrumental Music
- The Violin Family
- The Harpsichord
- The Organ
- New Musical Genres
- Arcangelo Corelli
- The Baroque Concerto
- listening map 14: Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 10 [1689]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 22 Antonio Vivaldi
- listening map 15: Antonio Vivaldi, Spring from The Four Seasons, Op. 8 No. 1, First Movement [ca. 1725]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 23 Johann Sebastian Bach's Life and Career
- Bach's Early Life and Career Beginnings
- The Move to Cöthen
- Final Years in Leipzig
- making connections: Bach's Children and Wives
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 24 Bach's Instrumental Music
- Bach and the Fugue
- making connections: Fugues beyond Music
- listening map 16: J. S. Bach, “Little” Fugue in G Minor for Organ [ca. 1708-1717]
- Bach's Concertos
- check your knowledge
- listening map 17: J. S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, First Movement [1721 or earlier]
- CHAPTER 25 Bach's Sacred Music
- Bach's Cantatas
- making connections: A Tale of Two Churches
- listening map 18: J. S. Bach, Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf (Sleepers, Awake!), First Movement [1731]
- Bach's Other Religious Music
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 26 George Frideric Handel
- making connections: Handel versus Bach: Two Baroque Titans Compared
- Handel's Life and Career
- listening map 19: G.F. Handel, Water Music: Alla Hornpipe [1717]
- Handel and Italian Opera
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 27 Handel and the English Oratorio
- making connections: Handel, the Duke of Cumberland, and Bonnie Prince Charlie
- making connections: Handel's Messiah and Jonathan Swift
- listening map 20: G.F. Handel, Messiah, Aria, "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion" [1742]
- listening map 21: G.F. Handel, Messiah, "Hallelujah" Chorus [1742]
- making connections: Standing Up for Handel
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 28 The End of the Baroque
- check your knowledge
- part iv summary
- global connections:
- Japan: The Koto
- making connections: Musical Representations of Spring
- PART V The Classical Period
- Why Listen to Music from the Classical Period?
- The Enlightenment
- timeline
- The Revival of Antiquity
- CHAPTER 29 Music in the Classical Period
- Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges
- LISTENING MAP 22: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges, Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 5 No. 2, Rondeau [ca. 1775]
- Melody in Classical Music
- making connections: Balance in Neoclassical Art and Architecture
- Dynamics in Classical Music
- Rhythm in Classical Music
- Harmony and Texture in Classical Music
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 30 Genres and Forms in Classical Music
- New Instrumental Genres
- Sonata Form
- Theme and Variations Form
- Minuet and Trio
- listening map 23 W.A. Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), K. 525, First Movement, Allegro [1787]
- listening map 24 Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major ("Surprise"), Second Movement (Andante) [1791]
- Rondo Form
- listening map 25 W.A. Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), K. 525, Third Movement (Allegretto) [1787]
- making connections: The Rise of the Minuet
- listening map 26 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"), Third Movement (Allegro) [1798]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 31 Joseph Haydn
- Haydn's Life and Music
- making connections: The Esterházys and Haydn
- Haydn and the Classical Orchestra
- making connections: Haydn in England
- Haydn and the String Quartet
- listening map 27 Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major ("Surprise"), Fourth Movement (Allegro Molto) [1791]
- Haydn's Influence
- listening map 28 Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 No. 3 ("Emperor"), Second Movement (Poco adagio, cantabile) [1797]
- making connections: The Politics of Haydn's "Emperor's Hymn"
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 32 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Mozart's Life and Career
- making connections: Mozart as Freemason
- making connections: Mozart and Posterity
- Mozart and the Classical Concerto
- Maria Theresia von Paradis: "The Blind Enchantress"
- listening map 29 Maria Theresia von Paradis, "Morgenlied eines armen Mannes" ("The Morning Song of a Poor Man") [1786]
- Mozart and Italian Opera
- listening map 230 W.A. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488, First Movement (Allegro) [1786]
- Mozart and German Opera
- listening map 31 W.A. Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, Act I, Scene 2, Figaro, "Se vuol ballare" ("If you want to dance") [1786]
- listening map 32: W.A. Mozart, The Magic Flute, K. 620, Act II, Scene?3, Queen of the Night, "Der Hölle Rache" ("Vengeance of Hell") [1791]
- Mozart's Legacy
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 33 Ludwig van Beethoven
- Beethoven's Early Period
- making connections: Beethoven and Haydn
- Beethoven's Middle Period
- listening map 33 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ("Moonlight"), First Movement (Adagio sostenuto) [1801]
- making connections: Napoleon as Romantic Figure
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor
- making connections: Finding Meaning in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
- listening map 34 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, First Movement (Allegro con brio) [1808]
- listening map 35: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Second Movement (Andante con moto) [1808]
- listening map 36 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Third Movement (Allegro) [1808]
- Beethoven's Late Period
- listening map 37 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Fourth Movement (Allegro) [1808]
- Beethoven's Death and Funeral
- Beethoven's Legacy
- check your knowledge
- part v summary
- global connections:
- Thailand: Music of the Khaen
- making connections: Free-Reed Instruments
- PART VI The Romantic Period
- Why Listen to Romantic Music?
- Romantic Movements
- timeline
- CHAPTER 34 Music in the Romantic Period
- Melody in Romantic Music
- Dynamics and Expression Marks in Romantic Music
- Tempo and Rhythm in Romantic Music
- Harmony and Tonality in Romantic Music
- Forms and Genres in Romantic Music
- Timbre and Tone Color in Romantic Music
- making connections: Romantic Content in Program Music
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 35 Art Song
- making connections: Lyric Poetry and Us
- Schubert's Life
- Schubert's Lieder
- making connections: Goethe and Music
- Schubert's "Erlking"
- listening map 38 Franz Schubert, "Erlkönig" ("The Erlking") [1815]
- Robert Schumann
- Schumann's Dichterliebe, Op. 48
- Clara Schumann
- listening map 39 Robert Schumann, "Im wunderschönen Monat Mai" ("In the Lovely Month of May"), from Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) [1840]
- Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" ("If You Love for Beauty")
- listening map 40: Clara Schumann, "Liebst du um Schönheit" ("If You Love for Beauty") [1841]
- making connections: Clara Schumann as Composer
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 36 Piano Music
- making connections: The Age of the Virtuoso
- Frédéric Chopin
- making connections: A Double Portrait by Delacroix
- listening map 41 Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in E-Flat Major for Piano, Op. 9 No. 2 [1831]
- listening map 42: Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in D Minor for Piano, Op. 28 No. 24 [1839]
- Franz Liszt
- making connections: Lisztomania
- Fanny Hensel
- listening map 43: Franz Liszt, Petrarch Sonnet No. 104 [1858]
- listening map 44: Fanny Hensel, “Il Saltarello Romano” ("The Roman Saltarello") in A Minor, Op. 6 No. 4 [1841]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 37 Orchestral Music
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- making connections: Mendelssohn as Conductor
- listening map 45: Felix Mendelssohn, Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21 [1826]
- Hector Berlioz
- making connections: The Romantics and Opium
- listening map 46: Hector Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony, Finale, "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" [1830]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 38 Romantic Opera
- Italian Romantic Opera
- French Romantic Opera
- listening map 47: Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto, Act III, Canzone, “La donna è mobile” ("Woman Is Fickle") [1851]
- German Romantic Opera
- making connections: Musical Cues in Wagner and Beyond
- listening map 48: Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold, concluding scene, "The Gods' Entrance into Valhalla" [1854]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 39 Musical Nationalism and Realism
- Nationalism in Music
- making connections: Nationalism in Art
- Antonín Dvorák
- making connections: Jeanette Thurber and Music Patronage, Americanized
- Russian Music
- listening map 49: Antonín Dvorák, Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"), Second Movement, Largo [1893]
- Harry T. Burleigh
- LISTENING MAP 50: Harry T. Burleigh, Deep River (1916)
- listening map 51: Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, "The Great Gate of Kiev" (1874), orchestrated by Maurice Ravel [1922]
- making connections: The Afterlife of La Bohème
- listening map 52: Georges Bizet, Carmen, Act 1, Habanera [1875]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 40 Late Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
- Johannes Brahms
- LISTENING MAP 53: Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, Third Movement
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- LISTENING MAP 54: Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet [1880]
- Program Music of the Late Nineteenth Century
- Gustav Mahler
- LISTENING MAP 55: Gustav Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer, No. 2 [1896]
- part vi summary
- global connections: North India: Rhythm in Hindustani Music
- MAKING CONNECTIONS: Rhythmic Patterns
- PART VII The Modern Era
- Why Listen to Music from the Modern Era?
- Modernist Innovations
- timeline
- CHAPTER 41 Music in the Twentieth Century
- Alternatives to Tonality
- Arnold Schoenberg and the Rejection of Tonality
- making connections: Atonality and Soundtracks
- New Experiments with Rhythm and Timbre
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 42 The Modernist Revolution
- Claude Debussy
- making connections: The Eiffel Tower as Modernist Icon
- making connections: Symbolism
- listening map 56: Claude Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun [1894]
- Igor Stravinsky
- making connections: The Ballets Russes
- listening map 57: Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, "Introduction" and "Augurs of Spring: Dance of the Adolescents" [1913]
- Arnold Schoenberg
- making connections: Wassily Kandinsky and German Expressionism
- listening map 58: Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire, No. 5, "Valse de Chopin" [1912]
- Alban Berg and Anton von Webern
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 43 Neoclassicism
- Sergei Prokofiev
- making connections: Music in the Soviet Union
- Stravinsky and Neoclassicism
- listening map 59: Sergei Prokofiev, "Classical" Symphony, First Movement [1917]
- listening map 60: Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, Second Movement (Psalm 40:1-3) [1930]
- making connections: Stravinsky as Lecturer
- Béla Bartók
- making connections: Palindromes and Musical Symmetries
- check your knowledge
- listening map 61: Béla Bartók, Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta, Third Movement [1936]
- CHAPTER 44 National Styles
- English Music
- Dmitri Shostakovich and Russian Music
- check your knowledge
- listening map 62: Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Second Movement [1937]
- CHAPTER 45 American Music: Beginnings to Aaron Copland
- Amy Beach
- Charles Ives
- listening map 63: Amy Beach, Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 [1893]
- listening map 64: Charles Ives, General William Booth Enters into Heaven [1914]
- William Grant Still
- listening map 65: William Grant Still, "Afro-American" Symphony, Third Movement ("Humor") [1930]
- making connections: The Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro"
- George Gershwin
- making connections: Rhapsody in Blue: An Icon of American Music
- Aaron Copland
- listening map 66: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, Section 7: Variations on the Shaker melody "Simple Gifts" [1944]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 46 Jazz
- The Rise of Jazz: Ragtime and Blues
- making connections: Robert Johnson and the Blues as Literature
- listening map 67: Bessie Smith, "Lost Your Head Blues" [1926]
- Early Jazz: New Orleans and Beyond
- The Birth of Swing Music
- Duke Ellington
- listening map 68: Duke Ellington, "Mood Indigo" [1930]
- The Birth of Bebop
- listening map 69: Charlie Parker, "Constellation" [1948]
- Cool and Free Jazz
- listening map 70: Miles Davis, Bitches Brew ("Miles Runs the Voodoo Down," opening section) [1969]
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 47 Film Music, Musicals, and Contemporary Popular Styles
- The Rise of Film Music
- listening map 71: John Williams, "Imperial March" from The Empire Strikes Back [1980]
- Musicals
- Contemporary Popular Styles
- making connections: The Many Roles of Leonard Bernstein
- listening map 72: Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story, Balcony Scene, "Tonight" [1957]
- making connections: The '60s: Music of Protest
- check your knowledge
- CHAPTER 48 The Eclipse of Modernism: New Frontiers
- The New Order: Total Serialism
- New Resources in Sound
- making connections: An Early Electronic Studio
- listening map 73: Edgard Varèse, Poème électronique (Electronic Poem), opening 2'36" [1958]
- Further Developments in Electronic Music
- listening map 74: John Cage, 4'33" [1951]
- making connections: Across the Arts: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham
- Women and Contemporary Music
- listening map 75: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Concerto grosso, First Movement [1985]
- Postmodernism
- making connections: Minimalism in the Visual Arts
- listening map 76: John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine [1986]
- Into the Twenty-First Century
- The Future
- listening map 77: Sofia Gubaidulina, Violin Concerto No. 2 ("In tempus praesens"), opening section [2007]
- LISTENING MAP 78: Caroline Shaw, The Orangery [2015]
- check your knowledge
- part vii summary
- making connections: BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND THE WORLD
- Glossary
- Credits
- Index
