Listen / Joseph Kerman, with Vivian Kerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerman, Joseph, 1924-2014.

Contributor:

Kerman, Vivian.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Analysis, appreciation.

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 561 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music ; 26 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Worth Publishers, [1980]

Contents:

Unit I Fundamentals

Listening

Prelude: An Orchestral Prelude by Richard Wagner

Listening Chart 1 Wagner, Prelude to The Valkyrie

Chapter 1 Music, Sound, and Time

1 Sound Vibrations

2 Dynamics (Amplitude)

Listening Exercise 1 Pitch and Dynamics

3 Tone Color: Overtones

4 Duration

Chapter 2 Rhythm and Pitch

1 Rhythm

Listening Exercise 2 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo

Listening Exercise 3 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo

2 Pitch

Interlude A: Musical Notation

Chapter 3 The Structures of Music

1 Melody

Box: Characteristics of Tunes

Listening Exercise 4 Melody and Tune

2 Harmony

3 Texture

Listening Exercise 5 Texture

4 Tonality and Modality

Listening Exercise 6 Mode and Key

Interlude B: Musical Instruments

Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style

1 Form in Music

Listening Exercise 7 Musical Form

2 Musical Style

Listening Chart 2 Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Unit II Early Music: An Overview

Chapter 5 The Middle Ages

1 Music and the Church: Plainchant

Plainchant, Preface for Mass on Whit Sunday, "Vere dignum"

"In paradisum" Plainchant, Gregorian Antiphon

Hildegard of Bingen, Plainchant Sequence, "Columba aspexit"

2 Music at Court

Box: How Did Early Music Sound?

Troubadour song, "La dousa votz" / Bernart de Ventadorn Ventadorn, Bernart de

3 The Evolution of Polyphony

"Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" / Pérotin, Organum

4 Later Medieval Polyphony

"Quant en moi", Motet / Guillaume de Machaut Machaut, Guillaume de

Global Perspectives 1: Sacred Chant

Qur'anic recitation, "Ya Sin"

Hawai'ian chant, Mele pule

Navajo song, "K'adnikini'ya'"

Chapter 6 The Renaissance

1 New Attitudes

Harmonized hymn, "Ave maris stella" / Guillaume Dufay Dufay, Guillaume

2 The High Renaissance Style

Pange lingua Mass / Josquin Desprez Desprez, Josquin

3 Music as Expression

Chanson, "Mille regrets" / Josquin Desprez Desprez, Josquin

4 Late Renaissance Music

Pope Marcellus Mass / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Madrigal, "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending / Thomas Weelkes Weelkes, Thomas

5 Instrumental Music: Early Developments

"Daphne" / Anonymous, Galliard

"Kemp's Jig" / Anonymous

Box: Dance Stylization

Global Perspectives 2 Music and Early European Colonialism

Inca processional music, "Hanaq pachap kusikuynin"

Chapter 7 The Early Baroque Period

1 From Renaissance to Baroque

"O magnum mysterium", Motet / Giovanni Gabrieli Gabrieli, Giovanni

2 Style Features of Early Baroque Music

3 Opera

The Coronation of Poppea / Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi, Claudio

Box: Singing Italian

Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell Purcell, Henry

4 The Rise of Instrumental Music

Suite (Canzona, Balletto, Corrente, and Passacaglia) / Girolamo Frescobaldi Frescobaldi, Girolamo

Global Perspectives 3 Ostinato Forms

"Laminba" / Foday Musa Suso Suso, Foday Musa

Pygmy polyphony, Elephant-hunt song

Unit III The Eighteenth Century

Chapter 8 Prelude: The Late Baroque Period

1 Absolutism and the Age of Science

2 Musical Life in the Early Eighteenth Century

3 Style Features of Late Baroque Music

4 The Emotional World of Baroque Music

Chapter 9 Baroque Instrumental Music

1 Concerto and Concerto Grosso

Violin Concerto in G, La stravaganza, Op. 4, No. 12 / Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi, Antonio

Listening Chart 3 Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, first movement

Listening Chart 4 Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, second movement

Biography: Antonio Vivaldi

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 / Johann Sebastian Bach Bach, Johann Sebastian

Listening Chart 5 Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, first movement

Biography: Johann Sebastian Bach

2 Fugue

Box: Fugues, Free and Learned

The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 4 / Johann Sebastian Bach Bach, Johann Sebastian

Listening Chart 6 Bach, The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 4

3 The Dance Suite

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D (c. 1730) / Johann Sebastian Bach Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chapter 10 Baroque Vocal Music

1 Opera

Box: The Castrato

Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) / George Frideric Handel Handel, George Frideric

2 Oratorio

Messiah / George Frideric Handel Handel, George Frideric

Biography: George Frideric Handel

Box: Women in Music

3 The Church Cantata

Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" / Johann Sebastian Bach Bach, Johann Sebastian

4 The Organ Chorale

"Christ lag in Todesbanden", Chorale Prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach Bach, Johann Sebastian

Chapter 11 Prelude: Music and the Enlightenment

1 The Enlightenment and Music

2 The Rise of Concerts

3 Style Features of Classical Music

4 Form in Classical Music

Chapter 12 The Symphony

1 The Movements of the Symphony

2 Sonata Form

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Listening Chart 7 Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, first movement

Biography: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3 Classical Variation Form

Symphony No. 95 in C Minor / Franz Joseph Haydn Haydn, Franz Joseph

Listening Chart 8 Haydn, Symphony No. 95, second movement

Biography: Franz Joseph Haydn

4 Minuet Form (Classical Dance Form)

Symphony No. 95 in C Minor, third movement / Franz Joseph Haydn Haydn, Franz Joseph

Listening Chart 9 Haydn, Symphony No. 95, third movement

5 Rondo Form

Symphony No. 95 in C Minor, fourth movement / Franz Joseph Haydn Haydn, Franz Joseph

Listening Chart 10 Haydn, Symphony No. 95, fourth movement

Chapter 13 Other Classical Genres

1 The Sonata

Sonata in F, Op. 1, No. 3 / Francesca LeBrun LeBrun, Francesca

2 The Classical Concerto

Piano Concerto in A., K. 488 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Listening Chart 11 Mozart, Piano Concerto in A, K. 488, first movement

3 The String Quartet

4 Opera Buffa

Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Global Perspectives 4 Musical Form: Two Case Studies from Asia

Listening Chart 12 Japanese gagaku, Etenraku

Listening Chart 13 I Lotring, Balinese gamelan, Bopong

Unit IV The Nineteenth Century

Chapter 14 Beethoven

1 Between Classicism and Romanticism

2 Beethoven and the Symphony

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 / Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven, Ludwig van

Listening Chart 14 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement

Listening Chart 15 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (complete work) Biography / Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven, Ludwig van

3 Beethoven's "Third Period"

String Quartet in F, Op. 135, second movement / Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven, Ludwig van

Chapter 15 Prelude: Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

1 Romanticism

2 Concert Life in the Nineteenth Century

3 Style Features of Romantic Music

4 Program Music

5 Form in Romantic Music

Chapter 16 The Early Romantics

1 The Lied

"Erlkönig" ("The Erlking") / Franz Schubert Schubert, Franz

Biography / Franz Schubert Schubert, Franz

Dichterliebe ("A Poet's Love") / Robert Schumann Schumann, Robert

Biography / Robert Schumann Schumann, Robert

"Der Mond kommt still gegangen" ("The moon has risen softly") / Clara Schumann Schumann, Clara

Biography / Clara Wieck (Clara Schumann) Wieck, Clara, (Clara Schumann)

2 The Character Piece for Piano

Moment Musical No. 2 in A-flat / Franz Schubert Schubert, Franz

Carnaval / Robert Schumann Schumann, Robert

Nocturne in F-sharp, Op. 15, No.

2 / Frédéric Chopin Chopin, Frédéric

Biography / Frédéric Chopin Chopin, Frédéric

3 Early Romantic Program Music

Biography / Franz Liszt Liszt, Franz

Biography / Felix Mendelssohn Mendelssohn, Felix

Biography / Fanny Mendelssohn Mendelssohn, Fanny

Fantastic Symphony: Episodes in the Life of an Artist / Hector Berlioz Berlioz, Hector

Listening Chart 16 Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony, fifth movement

Biography / Hector Berlioz Berlioz, Hector

Chapter 17 Romantic Opera

1 Verdi and Italian Opera

Box: Early Romantic Opera

Giuseppe Verdi / Aida

Biography / Giuseppe Verdi Verdi, Giuseppe

2 Wagner and Music Drama

Box: Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

The Nibelung's Ring: The Valkyrie / Richard Wagner Wagner, Richard

Biography / Richard Wagner Wagner, Richard

Chapter 18 The Late Romantics

1 Late Romantic Program Music

Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Listening Chart 17 Tchaikovsky, Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet

Biography: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

2 Nationalism

Modest Musorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Biography / Modest Musorgsky Musorgsky, Modest

Box: Other Nationalists

3 Responses to Romanticism

Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 / Johannes Brahms Brahms, Johannes

Listening Chart 18 Brahms, Violin Concerto, third movement

Biography / Johannes Brahms Brahms, Johannes

Symphony no. 1 / Gustav Mahler Mahler, Gustav

Biography / Gustav Mahler Mahler, Gustav

Listening Chart 19 Mahler, Symphony No. 1, third movement, Funeral March

Global Perspectives 5: Musical Drama Worldwide

Japanese kabuki, Dojoji

Beijing opera, The Prince Who Changed into a Cat

Unit V The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Chapter 19 Prelude: Music and Modernism

1 Progress and Uncertainty

2 The Response of Modernism

3 Literature and Art Before World War I

4 Modernist Music Before World War I

Chapter 20 The Twentieth Century: Early Modernism

1 Debussy and Impressionism

Three Nocturnes / Claude Debussy Debussy, Claude

Listening Chart 20 Debussy, Clouds

Biography / Claude Debussy Debussy, Claude

2 Stravinsky: The Primacy of Rhythm

The Rite of Spring: Part I, "The Adoration of the Earth" / Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky, Igor

Listening Chart 21 Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, from Part I

Biography / Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky, Igor

3 Expressionism

Pierrot lunaire / Arnold Schoenberg Schoenberg, Arnold

Biography / Arnold Schoenberg Schoenberg, Arnold

Wozzeck / Alban Berg Berg, Alban

Box: Schoenberg and Serialism

4 Modernism in America: Ives

Second Orchestral Set, second movement / Charles Ives Ives, Charles

Listening Chart 22 Ives, "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting"

Biography / Charles Ives Ives, Charles

The Unanswered Question / Charles Ives Ives, Charles

Chapter 21 Alternatives to Modernism

Box: Opera in the Early Twentieth Century

1 Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto in G / Maurice Ravel Ravel, Maurice

Listening Chart 23 Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, first movement

Biography / Maurice Ravel Ravel, Maurice

2 Béla Bartók

Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta / Béla Bartók Bartók, Béla

Listening Chart 24 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, second movement (Allegro)

Biography / Béla Bartók Bartók, Béla

3 Aaron Copland

Appalachian Spring / Aaron Copland Copland, Aaron

Biography / Aaron Copland Copland, Aaron

4 The Rise of Film Music

Box: Music and Totalitarianism

Alexander Nevsky / Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev, Sergei

Listening Chart 25 Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky, Cantata

5 The Battle On Ice

Biography / Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev, Sergei

Chapter 22 The Late Twentieth Century

1 Modernism in Music: The Second Phase

Five Orchestral Pieces of 1913 / Anton Webern Webern, Anton

2 The Postwar Avant-Garde

Lux aeterna / György Ligeti Ligeti, György

Listening Chart 26 Ligeti, Lux aeterna

Poã¿me électronique / Edgard Varã¿se Varã¿se, Edgard

Box: Modernist Music and Architecture

4' 33" / John Cage Cage, John

3 Music at the End of the Millenium

Music for 18 Musicians / Steve Reich Reich, Steve

Listening Chart 27 Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, beginning

From the Grammar of Dreams / Kaija Saariaho Saariaho, Kaija

El Niã±o / John Adams Adams, John

Chapter 23 Music in America: Jazz and Beyond

1 Early American Music: An Overview

2 Jazz: The First Fifty Years

Biography: Ragtime / Scott Joplin Joplin, Scott

"If You Ever Been Down" Blues / Sippie Wallace Wallace, Sippie

Biography / Louis Armstrong Armstrong, Louis

"Conga Brava" / Duke Ellington Ellington, Duke

Biography / Duke Ellington Ellington, Duke

Global Perspectives 6 African Drumming

Yoruba drumming, "Ako"

3 Later Jazz

"Out of Nowhere" / Charlie Parker and Miles Davis Davis, Charlie Parker and Miles

"Bitches Brew" / Miles Davis Davis, Miles

4 The Influence of Jazz and Blues

Piano Prelude No. 1 / George Gershwin Gershwin, George

West Side Story / Leonard Bernstein Bernstein, Leonard

5 Rock: The First Fifty Years

Global Perspectives 7: Global Music

South African popular song, "Anoku Gonda" / Solomon Linda Linda, Solomon

6 Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0879011270

OCLC:

6791243