Gateways to Understanding Music – eBook

Rice and Wilson’s Gateways to Understanding Music(PDF) explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, jazz, popular music, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music-making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of 60 modular “gateways” covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, students are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Music and college students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter anywhere in their world.

FEATURES

• • Introduction of musical concepts — Defined as needed and compiled into a Glossary for reference.
  • Global scope — Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz.
  • Listening-guided learning—Leads to understanding the emotion, meaning, significance, and history of music.
  • Consistent structure—With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music.
  • Historical narrative—Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences.
  • Modular framework—60 gateways in 14 chapters allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: emotion, social life, links to culture, aesthetics, politics, economics, and technology.

Additional ISBNs: 9781315176130, 978-1138039063, 978-1138039056, 978-1315176130, 1315176130, 978-1351708838

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