The Essential Listening to Music

Author : Craig Wright

9781305113879

304 Pages Paperback

2nd Edition | Previous Editions: 2013, 2008, 2004

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Combining outstanding listening pedagogy with clear writing and cutting-edge digital resources, THE ESSENTIAL LISTENING TO MUSIC, 2e delivers a streamlined and succinct presentation of classical music that inspires a lifelong appreciation of music. Scholar and master-teacher Craig Wright focuses on ... more

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A brief, streamlined version of Wright's comprehensive LISTENING TO MUSIC, the Second Edition of THE ESSENTIAL LISTENING TO MUSIC (with Download Card) offers a succinct 16-chapter presentation of Western (or classical) music.

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The Second Edition's pedagogy is fully integrated with MindTap--giving students the ultimate personal learning experience and providing instructors with high-value gradable activities like Listening Exercises and quizzes.

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Author

Craig Wright

Craig M. Wright, Ph.D., received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in 1966 and his Doctorate in Musicology from Harvard University in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of Kentucky and for over forty years taught at Yale University, where he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright’s courses included his perennially popular introductory course, Listening to Music (also part of the offerings of Open Yale Courses); his large lecture course, Exploring the Nature of Genius; and most recently his Coursera course, Introduction to Classical Music. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on composers ranging from Leoninus to Bach. Wright has also been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. In 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining fellow inductee and banjo player Steve Martin.

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Table of Contents

1. The Appeal of Music.
2. Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony.
3. Color, Texture, and Form.
4. Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
5. Baroque Art and Music.
6. Late Baroque Music: Bach and Handel.
7. Introduction to the Classical Style: Haydn and Mozart.
8. Classical Forms.
9. Classical Genres.
10. Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism.
11. Romanticism and Romantic Chamber Music.
12. Romantic Orchestral Music.
13. Romantic Opera.
14. Late Romantic Orchestral Music.
15. European Impressionism and Modernism.
16. American Modernism and Postmodernism.
Epilogue.
Glossary.
Index.

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