Full Description
Experience Music offers a listening experience—first hearing, featured listening, and finale—along with Spotify playlists and interactive listening guides to motivate and engage students. With McGraw Hill's Connect® students can come to class confident and prepared, as they develop the active listening skills they need for success in the course and a lifetime of more meaningful musical experiences.
McGraw Hill's Connect® offers a learning environment for students to actively engage in listening to music and build their vocabulary in this course area. Students connect to music through interactive assignments such as listening experience activities and hearing the difference comparison questions. Students can access and stream music through the interactive listening guides or through embedded audio players in eBooks.
Instructors can assess the development of students' listening skills—online and at any time—so that they don't have to wait for a midterm for an update on their progress.
Contents
Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music
1 Elements of Music: Sound, Rhythm, Melody, andHarmony
2 Elements that Structure Music: Key, Texture, andForm
3 Musical Instruments and Ensembles
Prelude: The Culture of Medieval Europe
4 Medieval Music
Prelude: The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Humanism
5 Renaissance Music
Prelude: The Triumph of Baroque Style
6 Baroque Opera
7 Cantata
8 Oratorio
9 Baroque Solo and Chamber Music
10 The Baroque Orchestra
Prelude: The Classical Era: Reason and Revolution
11 The Classical Symphony
12 The Classical Concerto
13 Classical Chamber Music
14 Classical Vocal Music
15 The Music of Beethoven
Prelude: Music of the Romantic Era
16 Romantic Songs
17 Romantic Piano Music
18 Romantic Program Music
19 Nationalism in the Romantic Era
20 The Concert Overture
21 The Romantic Concerto
22 Romantic Choral Music
23 The Late Romantic Symphonies
24 Romantic Opera in France and Italy
25 Romantic German Opera
Prelude: The Early Twentieth Century
26 Impressionism and Symbolism
27 Primitivism and Neoclassicism
28 Eastern European Nationalism
29 Germanic Expressionism and the Development ofSerialism
Prelude: American Innovations in the Arts
30 American Music Before World War II
31 Early Jazz Styles
32 Developments in Jazz in the Late TwentiethCentury
33 American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz
34 Twentieth-Century American Classical Styles
35 Musical Theater
36 Film Music
Prelude: New Ideas and Styles from Twentieth-CenturyInternationalism
37 World Musics
38 Post-World War II Innovations
39 Minimalism and Postmodernism
* Rock Music
* Concert Report Forms
