Music Appreciation: A Guide for the Active Listener
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2024
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Our ability to “appreciate” any subject—whether it is art, music, sports, video games, culinary arts, and so on—is directly linked to our level of understanding about that topic. Consider diehard sports fans or fantasy fiction nerds; they gleefully relish in knowing minute details that seem trivial to nonfanatics. Most of us know someone who has loquaciously tried to explain why everyone should share their passion for a sports team, novel, movie, etc. Other times, we are the fanatic proselytizing about our life-defining hot sauce, shoe brand, work-out routine, and so on.
Music Appreciation: A Guide for the Active Listener assumes that most people have an appreciation of music on some level whether you have had formal training or none at all. No matter what your past experiences in music may be—whether you consider yourself an expert or novice—everyone can deepen their ability to insightfully perceive the aesthetic value of musical works.
Elements of Music
Chapter 1 Beat, Meter, and Rhythm
Chapter 2 Pitch
Chapter 3 Melody
Chapter 4 Intensity
Chapter 5 Timbre & Western Instruments
Chapter 6 Harmony
Chapter 7 Form
Western Classical Music
Chapter 8 The Middle Ages (400–1450)
Chapter 9 The Renaissance (1450–1600)
Chapter 10 The Baroque Era (1600–1750)
Chapter 11 The Classical Era (1750–1825)
Chapter 12 The Romantic Era (1825–1900)
Chapter 13 20th Century (1900–present)
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