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By: Joseph Kerman, Gary Tomlinson ;  with Vivian Kerman
Contributors: Tomlinson, Gary; Kerman, Vivian
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780312593469; 9780312663117
Subjects: Music appreciation
Notes: DVD contains 30 minutes of video excerpts and 16 audio tracks, keyed to the text.

Includes bibliographical references, index and glossary.
Table of contents: title: Preface: To the instructor; title: Introduction: To the student; title: unit I. Fundamentals. Prelude: A musical thunderstorm / by Richard Wagner ; ch. 1. Rhythm, meter, and tempo ; ch. 2. Pitch, dynamics, and tone color ; ch. 3. Scales and melody ; ch. 4. Harmony, texture, tonality, and mode ; ch. 5. Musical form and musical style; title: unit II. Early music: an overview. ch. 6. The Middle Ages ; ch. 7. The Renaissance ; ch. 8. The early Baroque period; title: unit III. The eighteenth century. ch. 9. Prelude: The late Baroque period ; ch. 10. Baroque instrumental music ; ch. 11. Baroque vocal music ; ch. 12. Prelude: Music and the Enlightenment ; ch. 13. The symphony ; ch. 14. Other classical genres; title: unit IV. The nineteenth century. ch. 15. Beethoven ; ch. 16. Prelude: Music after Beethoven: Romanticism ; ch. 17. The early Romantics ; ch. 18. Romantic opera ; ch. 19. The late Romantics; title: unit V. The twentieth century and beyond. ch. 20. Prelude: Music and Modernism ; ch. 21. Early Modernism ; ch. 22. Alternatives to Modernism ; ch. 23. The late twentieth century ; ch. 24. Music in America: jazz and beyond; title: Appendix A. Time lines; title: Appendix B. Musical notation; title: Glossary of musical terms.