Music : an appreciation / Roger Kamien.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Elements -- Sound: pitch, dynamics, and tone color -- Performing media: voices and instruments -- Rhythm -- Music notation -- Melody -- Harmony -- Key -- Musical texture -- Musical form -- Performance -- Musical style -- Part II. The middle ages -- Music in the middle ages (450-1450) -- Gregorian chant -- Secular music in the middle ages -- The development of polyphony: organum -- Fourteenth-century music: the "new art" in Italy and France -- Part III. The renaissance -- Music in renaissance (1450-1600) -- Sacred music in the renaissance -- Secular music in the renaissance -- The venetian school: from renaissance to baroque -- Part IV. The baroque period -- Baroque music (1600-1750) -- Music in baroque society -- The concerto grosso and ritornello form -- The fugue -- The elements of opera -- Opera in the baroque era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The baroque cantata -- Barbara Strozzi -- Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre -- The baroque sonata -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The baroque suite -- The chorale and church cantata -- The oratorio -- George Frideric Handel -- Part V. The classical period -- The classical style (1750-1820) -- Composer, patron, and public in the classical period -- Sonata form -- Theme and variations -- Minuet and trio -- Rondo -- The classical symphony -- The classical concerto -- Classical chamber music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Part VI. The romantic period -- Romanticism in music (1820-1900) -- Romantic composers and their public -- The art song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Clara Wieck Schumann -- Frédéric Chopin -- Franz Liszt -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Program music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in nineteenth-century music -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Bedřich Smetana -- Antonin Dvořák -- Johannes Brahms -- George Bizet -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- Richard Wagner -- Gustav Mahler -- Part VII. The twentieth century and beyond -- Musical styles: 1900-1945 -- Music and musicians in society since 1900 -- Impressionism and symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Lili Boulanger -- Primitivism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Neoclassicism -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- Béla Bartók -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Music in America -- George Gershwin -- William Grant Still -- Aaron Copland -- Alberto Ginastera -- Musical styles since 1945 -- Music since 1945: ten representative pieces -- Part VIII. Jazz -- Jazz styles: (1900-1950) -- Ragtime -- Blues -- New Orleans style -- Swing -- Bebop -- Jazz styles since 1950 -- Part IX. Music for stage and screen -- Musical theater -- Leonard Bernstein -- Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Music in film -- Part X. Popular music genres -- Elements of popular music -- Music genres and star performers from the 1950s to the present -- Part XI. Nonwestern music -- Music in nonwestern cultures -- Music in sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical music of India -- Koto music of Japan.

Music: An Appreciation welcomes nonmajors to the art of listening to great music. Roger Kamien continues to focus on coverage of the elements of music, fostering each student’s unique path to listening and understanding. The 13th edition of Music: An Appreciation equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a lifelong enthusiasm for music.