Full Description
This work presents a comprehensive review of the material covered in "Introduction to Music" courses in colleges and universities. Such music appreciation courses are intended primarily for non-majors. In keeping with the courses' content, this review book covers the "elements" of music and provides a historical survey of music. The book is formatted in such a way as to provide college students with the essentials of the subject, and to supplement the regular assigned reading.
Contents
Introduction to listening; introduction to the elements of music; music as the measure of time; music as the measure of space; music as the measure of dynamics; musical timbre; music as the measure of harmony; form - order in music; song - the union of music and text; introduction to three levels of music - art, folk and elite; the Medieval period; the Renaissance period; the Baroque period; the classical period; the romantic period; the modern period; music and the world; the worlds of popular music.NER(01): WOW
