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The Online Guitar Store - Masterworks, Portfolio Edition with CD, Second Edition
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List Price: $36.20
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.17
EAN: 9780131844254
ISBN: 0131844253
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2003-07-08
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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A price-friendly book with a free music compact disk, Masterworks is designed to introduce readers to the most important music of the Western tradition, classical and popular. The CD features the “greatest hits” from the book, encouraging active participation in the musical concepts presented, enabling readers to focus on their own experiences as they come to integrate music into their lives. A comprehensive introduction, called “Hearing the Music”, chronicles composers and performers, and describes the interactive learning experience the book and CD will provide. Topics that follow include: fundamentals of music study; the history of musical style (the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Baroque, The Classical Style, Romanticism); and music today. For any reader with an interest in learning how to listen, this book/CD package is an excellent start on the road to music appreciation.
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Summary: An Update on Music Appreciation
Comment: A 2nd edition of this worthy text increases listening examples to four CD's and still includes an interactive CD-ROM and companion website. Congratulations to the author for configuring a text that could work in a ten week quarter calendar. The nine chapter format with introduction would be difficult to complete without careful choices-- but a tri-mester calendar would be a snap. The last third of the text considers evolution of American music to the 20th century, after following the traditional Euro-centric focus on art music. Other texts (like Willoughby) attempt to include more diversity from world music cultures, but require a longer term-- the semester calendar.
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