The Listening Experience: Elements, Forms, and Styles in Music

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James P. O'Brien's enriching and stimulating new textbook systematically develops listening and appreciation skills in four basic areas:● LISTENING SKILLS—emphasizing the "attentive" style of music listening● MUSICAL ELEMENTS—a careful study of essential musical ingredients such as rhythm, pitch, and melody, harmony and tonality, dynamics, texture, and timbre● MUSICAL FORM—illustrating combinations of musical elements that create the overall musical design in both single- and multi-movement forms● MUSICAL STYLES—a global view, stressing the historical and cultural uses of musical elements and forms—including non-Western music and jazz—from medieval times to the 20th centurySpecial features include:● a conceptual framework for listening to and processing musical events while developing historical awareness.● a balanced, thoroughly integrated repertoire of music: Western, non-Western, and jazz.● an all-in-one text and study guide, including marginal callouts of key terms; boxed inserts featuring composer biographies and other helpful information; musical examples; diagrams of listening selections; summary charts; glossary of musical terms; suggestions for further listening; end-of-chapter study guides and self-tests; and a set of recordings keyed to the text.

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Published March 3, 1987
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