Music as a Multicultural Experience w/ CD
Edition: 6
Copyright: 2011
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After having presented and shared the ineffable beauties of music with undergraduates and non-majors for over a quarter of a century, Shelley Davis has gained a revitalized perspective from the experience, particularly with regard to music-appreciation
curricula.
Today’s society and our music students seem increasingly to feel a need for partaking in an ever-widening musical spectrum: European classics remain an expectation, but their interrelationships with (and opposition to) other styles are eagerly sought in today’s world since for many of us, jazz, folk, international, popular, and other musical styles have become integral to our auditory experience.
Music as a Multicultural Experience addresses principally undergraduate non-music majors, and it draws from a variety of sources in selected Euro-American Western musical styles and non-Western musical traditions.
Music as a Multicultural Experience:
- Is packaged with a CD
- Includes chapter conclusions, suggested bibliographies, and discographies allow for expansion of the material, if so desired.
- Widens the reader’s awareness of some of the many and diverse musical styles, genres, and customs available to them.
Introduction – Context
1 SOCIETY
Music in Society
Ideas
Quotation
Words
The Supernatural
Drama
Dance
Synergism
Notation: A Means of Communication
Traditional Staff Notation
Other Notations: A Sampling
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
Helpful Viewing
Review Sheet
Part One – Elements
2 TIMBRE
The Voice
Aerophones
Pipe Organ
Chordophones
Membranophones
Idiophones
Electrophones
Idiom Transfer
Mixed Timbres
Nature
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
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Review Sheet
3 TIME
Pulse and Tempo
Meter and Rhythm
Simple vs. Compound Meter
Additive Meters
Syncopation
Hemiola and Changing Meters
Rhythmic Cycles (Structured Pulse)
Rhythmic Modes
Turkish Usûl
Isorhythm
Colotomic Music
Polyrhythm
Simultaneous Hemiola
Free Rhythm (Unmeasured Pulse)
Improvised Rhythm
Indian Tala (North Indian Tal, Tal’)
Key Words
Suggested Reading
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Review Sheet
4 MELODY
Scale
Mode
Disjunct vs. Conjunct Intervals
Contour
Melody Type
Stylistic Options
Modulation
Melodic Improvisation
Key Words
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Review Sheet
5 TEXTURE AND HARMONY
Various Types of Texture
Monophony
Heterophony
Polyphony
Parallel Motion
Oblique Motion
Imitative Counterpoint
Nonimitative Counterpoint
Homophony
Harmony
Other Harmonic Concepts
Broken Chords
Cadences
Rest and Motion
Tonality
Context
Tempo
Harmonic Improvisation
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
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Review Sheet
6 FORM
Closed Forms
Modular Forms
Strophe and Refrain Forms
Theme and Variation
Free-Strict Pairing
Developmental Forms
Open Forms
Compound Forms
Religious Services and Celebrations
Formal Improvisation
Indeterminacy
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
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Review Sheet
Part Two - Style
7 BAROQUE MUSIC: Bach and Raga
The Baroque Era
Baroque Style
Basso Continuo Textures
Improvisation
The Affective Style
The Doctrine of Affections
Style Consciousness and Transfer of Idiom
Baroque Genres
Monody and Early Opera
Instrumental Music: Sonata and Concerto
The Late-Baroque Concerto
The Apotheosis of Baroque Instrumental and Vocal Styles: Bach and Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Bach’s Orchestral Music
Handel’s Organ Concertos
The Concerto in F Major, Opus 4, No. 4
Bach’s Sacred Vocal Music
Bach’s Cantatas
Handel’s Vocal Music: The Operas
Handel and the English Oratorio
Messiah
India
Music Making
Ra¯ga
Ra¯ga and Mood
Ali Akbar Khan
Ta¯la
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
Helpful Viewing
Review Sheet
8 CLASSICISM: Mozart and the Mehter
High Classicism: Haydn and Mozart
The Encyclopedists
Early Classic Trends
Haydn: Freedom and Innovation
Haydn in England
Symphony No. 100 in G Major, “Military”
Haydn’s Vocal Music
Mozart: Grace and Balance
Style
Timbre
Rhythm and Melody
Polyphony and Harmony
Form
Mozart and the Mehter
Late Classicism: Beethoven
Beethoven and Universalism
The Ninth Symphony
Key Words
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9 ROMANTICISM: Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and Beijing Opera
The Romantic Period
Romanticism in Literature and Art
Music in the Romantic Era
Program Music
Nationalism and Opera
German Romantic Opera
Wagner
Wagner’s Early Operas
The Music Drama
The Ring Cycle
Wagner and Chromatic Harmony
Tristan und Isolde
The Gesamtkunstwerk
Later Occurrences of the Gesamtkunstwerk Ideal
Beijing Opera
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
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Review Sheet
10 SYMBOLISTS AND IMPRESSIONISM: Debussy and the Game?lan
Debussy and the Symbolist Poets
Debussy’s Musical Style and Impressionism
Indonesian Music
Java
Key Words
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11 THE 20th CENTURY: Bartók and Ethnic Folk Music
Crosscurrents in the Arts
The New Music
Bartók
Eclecticism and Assimilation
Bartók and Ethnic Music
Hungarian Popular Music
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
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Review Sheet
Part Three – Global Perspectives
12 THE MIDDLE EAST by Lisa Urkevich
The Cradle of Civilization
The Islamic World
Views of Music in Islamic Middle East
Music Makers
Music Characteristics
Music and the Word
The Significance of Melody
Improvisation and Intricacy
The Primary Elements: Melody and Rhythm
Melodic Modes: Maqa–m, Makam, Dastga–h
Rhythmic Modes: Iqa’a–, Usûl, Darb
Tarab: A Music Aesthetic
The Instruments
The Takht (from Persian ‘stand’ or ‘platform’)
The Takht Instruments
‘Ud, Nay, Qanun, Kamanja, Riqq
Key Words
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13 AFRICA
Talking Drums
Group Singing of the Ba-Benzele
Mbira
Yoruba Entertainment Music
Timbila
Key Words
Suggested Reading
Suggested Listening
Helpful Viewing
Supplementary Listening
Review Sheet
14 WOMEN IN MUSIC
Women as Composers by Suzanne Beicken
Women as Patrons by Bonnie Jo Dopp
Women as Performers by April Nash Greenan
Balkan Women and Diaphony by Robin Wildstein
Women as Teachers by April Nash Greenan
Key Words
Suggested Reading
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Review Sheet
15 AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC: Early Genres
Ragtime
Blues
Gospel
Jazz
New Orleans
Key Words
Suggested Reading
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Review Sheet
Glossary
Appendix I: Pitches and Durations (Note-Values)
Appendix II: Key Signatures
Appendix III: “Church” Modes and Solmization
Appendix IV: The Overtone Series and Intervals
Appendix V: Dynamics
CD Tracks
Index