Gateways to Understanding Music 1st Edition by Timothy Rice

Gateways to Understanding Music 1st Edition by Timothy Rice

1. ISBN-10

   1138039063
2. ISBN-13

   978-1138039063
3. Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all of the classes that represent up to date musical expertise: European classical music, well-liked music, jazz, and world music. Masking the oldest types of human music making to the most recent, the chronological narrative considers music from a worldwide reasonably than a Eurocentric perspective. Every of sixty modular “gateways” covers a specific style, fashion, or interval of music. Each gateway opens with a guided listening instance that unlocks a world of music by means of cautious examine of its structural parts. Based mostly on their listening expertise, college students are requested to take into account how the piece got here to be composed or carried out, how the piece or efficiency responded to the social and cultural points on the time and place of its creation, and what that music means immediately. College students be taught to hear to, clarify, perceive, and finally worth all of the music they might encounter of their world.

   FEATURES

   • International scope―Presents all music as worthy of examine, together with classical, world, well-liked, and jazz.
   • Historic narrative―Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the current, with a shifting focus from world to European to American influences.
   • Modular framework―60 gateways in 14 chapters enable flexibility to arrange chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: aesthetics, emotion, social life, hyperlinks to tradition, politics, economics, and expertise.
   • Listening-guided studying―Leads to understanding the emotion, that means, significance, and historical past of music.
   • Introduction of musical ideas―Outlined as wanted and compiled right into a Glossary for reference.
   • Constant construction―With the identical step-by-step format, college students be taught by means of repeated apply how to hear and the way to take into consideration music.

   As well as to streamed audio examples, the companion web site hosts important instructors’ sources.