The enjoyment of music
Subtitle: an introduction to perceptive listening
Edition: 3d ed./shorter.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780393099294; 9780393099409
Subjects: Music appreciation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 459-466.
Table of contents: title: By way of introduction; title: Music and life: the sources of musical imagery; title: Melody: musical line; title: Harmony: musical space; title: Rhythm: musical time; title: Tempo: musical pace; title: Dynamic: musical volume; title: Instruments of the orchestra; title: The orchestra; title: Form: musical structure and design; title: Musical style; title: Musical notation; title: The Romantic movement; title: Romanticism in music; title: The short lyric forms as an expression of Romanticism; title: Franz Schubert; title: Robert Schumann; title: Frédéric Francois Chopin; title: The nature of program music; title: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer night's dream; title: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; title: Liszt: Les préludes; title: Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; title: Nationalism and the Romantic movement; title: The symphony; title: Dvorák: New world symphony; title: The concerto; title: Two Romantic  concertos; title: The nature of opera; title: Giuseppe Verdi; title: Richard Wagner; title: Three Romantic operas; title: The organization of musical sounds: key and scale; title: The major-minor system; title: The development of themes: musical logic; title: The sonata: the first movement; title: The sonata, continued: the other movements; title: The classical spirit; title: Classicism in music; title: Joseph Haydn; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Ludwig van Beethoven; title: Classical chamber music; title: From classical to Romantic: Schubert's Unfinished; title: Harmony and counterpoint: musical texture; title: The Middle Ages; title: The Renaissance; title: The Baroque; title: Main currents in Baroque music; title: Two seventeenth-century composers; title: Baroque instrumental music; title: Johann Sebastian Bach; title: George Frideric Handel; title: From Baroque to classical; title: Transition to a new age; title: Mahler: Symphony no. 4; title: Impressionism; title: Claude Debussy; title: Postromantic composers; title: Main currents in twentieth-century music; title: New elements of style; title: New conceptions of tonality; title: Igor Stravinsky; title: Béla Bartók; title: Arnold Schoenberg; title: Between the wars; title: The past; title: Emergence of the modern American school; title: American composers; title: American jazz / Martin Williams; title: New directions; title: Composers of our time.