Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
- Edition: 1st Edition February 6, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0073025798
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0073025797
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Description
Experience Music! provides an innovative approach to the fundamental challenge of the music appreciation course: the development of real listening skills in each student. With its unique three-part chapter structure in which one piece of music is experienced three times over the course of the chapter, this new text offers a fresh, exciting, and more effective way to help students appreciate and understand great music of all kinds.
Experience Music! incorporates additional features providing other frameworks for listening. In
Hearing the Difference students are challenged to compare two contrasting works and understand their similarities and differences.
The Live Experience exposes students to the role of performers in shaping the music we hear.
A program of well-crafted supplementary material serves the requirements of students as well as instructors using the text. Each new text is packaged with a set of two audio CDs featuring key works addressed in the text and an interactive CD-ROM; additional musical selections are also available for optional purchase. Within the text itself and in the audio CD and CD-ROM components,
Experience Music! provides the tools that help students listen more actively and appreciatively.
About The Author
Katherine Charlton Calkins is chair of the music department at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California, where she has taught full-time since 1974. During a sabbatical in 1990, she taught music history at the American Institute for Foreign Study at the University of London. She holds degrees in classical guitar performance and music history and she has performed on medieval gittern, Renaissance lute, and baroque guitar with her late first husband, Andrew Charlton, who was well known in the field of early music. In addition to performing early music, she has played percussion in the California University at Fullerton Wind Ensemble and toured Japan with the group.
Reader Reviews
If you teach music appreciation courses, or are simply a curious, music hungry student, either way you'll benefit from the excellent coverage and pedagogical approach of this text. The chapters are about ten pages long and extremely well-written, with lively descriptions and eye-catching illustrations that bring to life the concepts under consideration. The recorded music that comes with the text is marvelous--Naxos recordings--that also serve to highlight period style in grand style. Whether for study or pleasure, this text, with its 2 CD's, is hard to top.
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