Full Description
Experience Music offers a listening experience pathway--first hearing, featured listening, and finale--that trains students to listen more critically and appreciatively. Spotify playlists and interactive listening guides 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.
Contents
Prelude: The Fundamentals of Music
1. Elements of Music: Sound, Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
2. Elements that Structure Music: Key, Texture, and Form
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
26. Impressionism and Symbolism
27. Primitivism and Neoclassicism
28. Eastern European Nationalism
29. Germanic Expressionism and the Development of Serialism
Prelude: American Innovations in the Arts
30. American Music Before World War II
31. Early Jazz Styles
32. Developments in Jazz in the Late Twentieth Century
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-Century Internationalism
37. World Musics
38. Post-World War II Innovations
39 Minimalism and Postmodernism
Available in Connect's ebook, and through CREATE custom books:
• Rock Music
• Concert Report Forms
