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Whether from a concert stage or in front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to connect with an audience. It is his unique combination of a performer's musical sensibility and a teacher's understanding of what works with students that has made Music: An Appreciation the most widely-used text of its kind. The text's impeccable scholarship, clear presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen repertoire of musical selections, and insightful listening guides have been its hallmarks from the first edition. The revision adds a new text feature designed to help students connect their classroom experience to a wider listening world, and an exciting new online component.

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• Part I Elements
• 1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
• 2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
• 3 Rhythm
• 4 Music Notation
• 5 Melody
• 6 Harmony
• 7 Key
• 8 Musical Texture
• 9 Musical Form
• 10 Performance
• 11 Musical Style
• Part II The Middle Ages
• 1 Music an the Middle Ages (450-1450)
• 2 Gregorian Chant
• 3 Secular Music in the Middle Ages
• 4 The Development of Polyphony: Organum
• 5 Fourteenth-Century Music: The "New Art" in Italy and France
• Part III The Renaissance
• 1 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)
• 2 Sacred Music in the Renaissance
• 3 Secular Music in the Renaissance
• 4 The Venetian School: From Renaissance to Baroque
• Part IV The Baroque Period
• 1 Baroque Music (1600-1750)
• 2 Music in Baroque Society
• 3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
• 4 The Fugue
• 5 The Elements of Opera
• 6 Opera in the Baroque Era
• 7 Claudio Monteverdi
• 8 Henry Purcell
• 9 The Baroque Sonata
• 10 Arcangelo Corelli
• 11 Antonio Vivaldi
• 12 Johann Sebastion Bach
• 13 The Baroque Suite
• 14 The Chorale and Church Cantata
• 15 The Oratorio
• 16 George Frideric Handel
• Part V The Classical Period
• 1 The Classical Style
• 2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
• 3 Sonata Form
• 4 Theme and Variations
• 5 Minuet and Trio
• 6 Rondo
• 7 The Classical Symphony
• 8 The Classical Concerto
• 9 Classical Chamber Music
• 10 Joseph Haydn
• 11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 12 Ludwig van Beethoven
• Part VI The Romantic Period
• 1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)
• 2 Romantic Composers and Their Public
• 3 The Art Song
• 4 Franz Schubert
• 5 Robert Schumann
• 6 Clara Wieck Schumann
• 7 Frederic Chopin
• 8 Franz Liszt
• 9 Felix Mendelssohn
• 10 Program Music
• 11 Hector Berlioz
• 12 Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music
• 13 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• 14 Bedrich Smetana
• 15 Antonin Dvorak
• 16 Johannes Brahms
• 17 Giuseppe Verdi
• 18 Giacomo Puccini
• 19 Richard Wagner
• 20 Gustav Mahler
• Part VII The Twentieth Century and Beyond
• 1 Musical Styles: 1900-1945
• 2 Music and Musicians in Society
• 3 Impressionism and Symbolism
• 4 Claude Debussy
• 5 Maurice Ravel
• 6 Neoclassicism
• 7 Igor Stravinsky
• 8 Expressionism
• 9 Arnold Schoenberg
• 10 Alban Berg
• 11 Anton Webern
• 12 Bela Bartok
• 13 Dmitiri Shostakovich
• 14 Charles Ives
• 15 George Gershwin
• 16 William Grant Still
• 17 Aaron Copeland
• 18 Alberto Ginastera
• 19 Musical Styles Since 1945
• 20 Music Since 1945: Eight Representative Pieces
• Part VIII Jazz
• 1 Jazz Styles: 1900-1950
• 2 Ragtime
• 3 Blues
• 4 New Orleans Style
• 5 Swing
• 6 Bebop
• 7 Jazz Style Since 1950
• Part IX Music for Stage and Screen
• 1 Musical Theater
• 2 Leonard Bernstein
• 3 Music in Film
• Part X Rock
• 1 Rock Styles
• 2 Rock in American Society
• 3 The Beatles
• Part XI Nonwestern Music
• 1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures
• 2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 3 Classical Music of India
• 4 Koto Music of Japan
• Appendixes
• 1 Glossary and Example Locator
• 2 Tone Color and Harmonic Series
• 3 Bibliography and Selected Reading