The enjoyment of music : an introduction to perceptive listening / by Joseph Machlis.
| Author/creator | Machlis, Joseph |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Third edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton, [1970] |
| Description | xx, 682 pages : illustrations (part color), facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface to the third edition -- Part one. The materials of music. By way of introduction ; Music and life: the sources of musical imagery ; 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 -- Part two. Nineteenth-century Romanticism. The Romantic movement ; Romanticism in music ; Song and piano piece. The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Frederic Francois Chopin ; Other song composers ; Other piano composers ; Program music. The nature of the 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 ; Absolute music. The symphony ; Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony ; Dvorak: New World Symphony ; Brahms: Symphony no. 3 ; Tchaikovsky: Pathetique symphony ; Other symphonists ; The concerto ; Grieg: piano concerto ; Two Romantic concertos ; Opera. The nature of opera ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Richard Wagner ; Bizet: Carmen ; Musorgsky [Mussorgsky]: Boris Godunov ; Puccini: La boheme -- Part three. 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 -- Part four. 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 -- Part five. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture ; The remote past ; The later middle ages ; The Renaissance ; Sixteenth-century music ; The Baroque ; Main currents in Baroque music ; Further aspects of Baroque music ; Claudio Monteverdi ; Baroque opera ; Vocal music of the Baroque ; Baroque instrumental music ; Johann Sebastian Bach (Instrumental music) ; Johann Sebastian Bach (vocal music) ; George Frideric Handel ; The Baroque, concluded ; Aftermath of the Baroque: The Rococo ; Opera and symphony in the pre-classical era -- Part six. The twentieth century ; Transition to a new age ; Strauss: Salome ; Mahler: Symphony no. 4 ; Impressionism ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Other postromantic 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 -- Part seven. The American scene ; The past ; Emergence of the modern American School ; Charles Ives ; American composers (I) ; American composers (II) ; American Jazz ( by Martin Williams) -- Part eight. The new music ; New directions ; Composers of our time -- Appendix I. Suggested reading ; Appendix II. Comparative ranges of instruments ; Appendix III. Complete list of major and minor scales ; Appendix IV. Chronological list of composers, world events and principal figures in literature and the arts ; Appendix V. The harmonic series. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 637-644. |
| LCCN | 77090980 |
| ISBN | 0393099296 |
| Stock number | 8.95 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | MT6.M134 E5 1970 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | MT6.M134 E5 1970 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |