A book that will enable the reader to have a greater understanding of music's role in our lives, this is a comprehensive study of the history of music from antiquity to the modern era. This book makes its subject matter lively and engaging by including loads of information in a way that the reader can easily grasp with its clearly-written narrative, use of illustrations, information boxes, composer profiles, and generous quantities of interesting material, such as composers' letters and critic's reviews of music throughout the ages. A two-volume anthology and an eight CD set of carefully chosen musical scores are included with this book. This book maintains the traditional divisions of music history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century, all connected by themes such as texture, melody, harmony, rhythm, and composers, which allow the reader to compare and contrast the different elements of musical style throughout the ages. For musicians, music journalists, or any persons in the field of music that need to gain information about music in a historical perspective.

A History of Music in Western Culture

Arts & Photography

Bonds, Mark Evan

Music

PRENTICE/HALL

Anthology of Music in Western Culture, Vol. 1

Anthology of Scores to: A History of Music in Western Culture, Vol. 2 (The Classical Era Through the Twentieth Century) (v. 2)

Anthology of Scores to: A History of Music in Western Culture, Vol. 2 (The Classical Era Through the Twentieth Century) (v. 2)

Listen to the music. Hear the elements. Expand your playlist. Informed by over 300 instructor and student reviews, Listen to This was created for today’s students. It will expand your students’ playlist with its listening-oriented approach and the integration of the musical elements. For the professor, it provides a customizable, modular format that gives you the flexibility to design your ideal music appreciation course. Listen to This also encourages students to explore history, culture, and musical styles through active listening, not just through passive reading. By concentrating on the elements of music, students develop the ability to connect earlier music with their own music. Praised by students and instructors alike for its engaging writing style, stunning design, and flexible format, this text will instill a life-long appreciation and understanding of music in your students by expanding their playlist today!

Listen to This!

Pearson College Div

Music of the Classical Era to the present featuring: new works, improved editions, integrated commentary, improved cross-referencing to text and recordings, and internal trackings keyed to recordings.

Anthology of Scores to A History of Music in Western Culture, Volume II: The Classical Era through the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

Computers & Technology

Operating Systems

Pearson

An anthology of scores that covers Antiquity to the Baroque Era. The works have been carefully selected to represent the developments in music history discussed in the text. Every selection in the anthology is discussed in the text.

Anthology of Scores To History of Music in Western Culture, Volume 1: Antiquity Through the Baroque Era

Listen To This

Gibbons, William

Neal, Jocelyn R.

Kaminski, Joseph

Robinson, N. Scott

NY, NY : Pearson

Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl\nDespite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works, Bonds argues, are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and 
project through his music. The supposedly characteristic furrowed brow and frown, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.

Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works, Bonds argues, are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic furrowed brow and frown, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.

Beethoven: Variations on a Life

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A History of Music in Western Culture

Anthology of Music in Western Culture, Vol. 1

Anthology of Scores to: A History of Music in Western Culture, Vol. 2 (The Classical Era Through the Twentieth Century) (v. 2)

Listen to This!

A History of Music in Western Culture

Anthology of Scores to A History of Music in Western Culture, Volume II: The Classical Era through the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

Anthology of Scores To History of Music in Western Culture, Volume 1: Antiquity Through the Baroque Era

Listen To This

Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Beethoven: Variations on a Life