Combining a student-friendly presentation with cutting-edge digital resources, Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, equips you with the tools to actively listen to and inspire a lifelong appreciation for music. Known for its clear, conversational style, LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, guides you -- even if you have no music background -- about what to listen for and why it is important to the piece. The music clips are curated and clipped to keep you focused and engaged on a few musical elements at a time. The text is organized chronologically and discusses musical examples from each era in its social context, describing the construction and culture of each piece. LISTENING TO MUSIC is fully integrated with MindTap to better help you develop your listening skills and maximize your course success. Online resources include interactive exercises, streaming music, Directed Listening Guides, chapter and listening quizzes.
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO LISTENING.
1. The Power of Music.
2. Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony.
3. Color, Texture, Form, and Style.
Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, 476-1600.
4. Medieval Music, 476-1450.
5. Renaissance Music, 1450-1600.
Part III: THE BAROQUE PERIOD, 1600-1750.
6. Early Baroque Music: Opera.
7. Toward Late Baroque Instrumental Music.
8. The Late Baroque: Bach.
9. The Late Baroque: Handel.
Part IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1750-1820.
10. Introduction to Classical Style: Haydn and Mozart.
11. Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata, Allegro.
12. Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo.
13. Classical Genres: Instrumental Music.
14. Classical Genres: Vocal Music.
15. Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism.
Part V: ROMANTICISM, 1820-1900.
16. Introduction to Romanticism.
17. Romantic Music: The Art Song.
18. Romantic Music: Program Music, Ballet, and Musical Nationalism.
19. Romantic Music: Piano Music.
20. Romantic Opera: Italy.
21. Romantic Opera: Germany.
22. Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera.
23. Late Romantic Orchestral Music.
Part VI: MODERN AND POSTMODERN ART MUSIC, 1880-PRESENT.
24. From Impressionism to Modernism.
25. Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism.
26. American Modernism.
27. Postmodernism.
Part VII: AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC.
28. American Popular Music to 1930.
29. American Popular Music from 1935.
30. Music for Media: Film, TV, and Games.
31. Rock: Music of Rebellion.
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Part VIII: GLOBAL MUSIC.
32. The Far East.
33. The Near East and Africa.
34. The Caribbean and Latin America.
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Lorenzo Candelaria
Lorenzo Candelaria, Ph.D., has a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College (1995) and a doctorate from Yale University (2001). He is an award-winning teacher and author at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is the recipient of prestigious fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was presented with the Robert M. Stevenson Award by the American Musicological Society for his book THE ROSARY CANTORAL (2008).
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Craig Wright
Craig M. Wright, Ph.D., received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in 1966 and his Doctorate in Musicology from Harvard University in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of Kentucky and for over forty years taught at Yale University, where he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright’s courses included his perennially popular introductory course, Listening to Music (also part of the offerings of Open Yale Courses); his large lecture course, Exploring the Nature of Genius; and most recently his Coursera course, Introduction to Classical Music. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on composers ranging from Leoninus to Bach. Wright has also been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. In 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining fellow inductee and banjo player Steve Martin.
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New! Formerly called Listening Guides, the new Directed Listening Activities guide students through key parts of important music pieces with time stamps and detailed annotations -- maximizing their experience.
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All music is available via streaming through MindTap, allowing students to listen to the sections of music referenced in the textbook.
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New author, a fresh voice -- Frank Candelaria is a first-generation Mexican-American college graduate who is now the Dean of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. His active teaching experience with diverse learners gives him a unique perspective on how to connect with the student audience, which shows in his contributions to this edition.
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New recordings! While still providing the music that instructors want the most, MindTap for LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, breaks from the “usual suspects” of big groups, big artists, big labels -- to a variety of performing groups with international scope.
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Accessible to learners from a variety of backgrounds, this edition adopts a student-friendly format that includes 34 chapters introduced by eight-part openers -- each with an introduction and timeline. Checklists of Musical Style help students efficiently summarize the information presented for each era.
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This edition's thorough coverage of women as composers, performers and patrons highlights Hildegard of Bingen, Beatriz of Dia, Clara Schumann, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Caroline Shaw and Bessie Smith.
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Student-centered approach that is rooted in making music accessible to readers that might not have formally studied music or be accustomed to listening deeply to music.
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