The enjoyment of music : an introduction to perceptive listening / Joseph Machlis.

Author/creator Machlis, Joseph
Format Book
EditionFourth edition
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, ©1977.
Descriptionxvii, 702 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music appreciation.

Contents [Pt. 1] Student text -- [Pt. 2] Workbook / by Richard Wingell.
Contents Preface to the fourth edition XV -- Chapter 1. The materials of music. By way of introduction ; Art as experience ; Melody: musical line ; Harmony: musical space ; Rhythm: musical time ; Tempo: musical pace ; Dynamics: musical volume ; Instruments of the orchestra (I) ; Instruments of the orchestra (II) ; The orchestra ; Form: musical structure and design ; Musical style ; Musical notation -- Chapter 2. Nineteenth-century Romanticism. The Romantic movement ; Romanticism in music ; The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Frederic Francois Chopin ; Other short lyric forms ; The nature of program music ; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique ; Liszt: Les Preludes ; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet ; Strauss: Don Juan ; Nationalism and the Romantic movement ; Nationalism in the symphonic poem ; The symphony ; Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony ; Dvorak: New World Symphony ; Brahms: Symphony no. 3 ; The concerto ; Mendelssohn: Violin concerto ; Liszt: Piano concerto no. 1 ; Rachmaninoff [Rachmaninov]: Piano concerto no. 2 ; The nature of opera ; Verdi: La traviata ; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ; Bizet: Carmen ; Musorgsky [Mussorgsky]: Boris Godunov ; Puccini: La boheme ; The nature of choral music ; Verdi: Messa da requiem -- Chapter 3. More materials of music. The organization of musical sounds: key and scale ; The major-minor system ; The development of themes: musical logic ; The sonata: the first movement ; The sonata, continued: the other movements -- Chapter 4. Eighteenth-century classicism. The classical spirit ; Classicism in music ; Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Classical chamber music ; From Classic to Romantic: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony -- Chapter 5. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture ; The remote past ; The later middle ages ; The Renaissance ; Josquin des Prez ; Other sixteenth-century masters ; The Baroque ; Main currents in Baroque music ; Further aspects of Baroque music ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Henry Purcell ; Vocal music of the Baroque ; Baroque instrumental music ; Johann Sebastian Bach (Instrumental music) ; Johann Sebastian Bach (vocal music) ; George Frideric Handel ; From Baroque to Classical ; Aftermath of the Baroque: The Rococo -- Chapter 6. The twentieth century ; Transition to a new age ; Mahler: Symphony no. 4 ; Impressionism ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Other post-Romantic composers ; Main currents in twentieth-century music ; New elements of style ; New conceptions of tonality ; Igor Stravinsky ; Bela Bartok ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Anton Webern ; Other modern Europeans -- Chapter 7. The American scene ; The past ; The nineteenth century: emergence of an American School ; Twentieth-century Americans (I) ; Charles Ives ; Edgard Varese ; Twentieth-century Americans (II) ; Twentieth-century Americans (III) ; American Jazz ( by Martin Williams) ; Duke Ellington ( by Martin Williams) -- Chapter 8. The new music ; New directions ; Composers of our time -- Appendices. Comparative ranges of voices and instruments ; Complete list of major and minor scales ; Chronological list of composers, world events and principal figures in literature and the arts 1300-1976 ; The harmonic series.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 667-671) and index.
LCCN 76055409
ISBN039309118X

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