Music : its language, history, and culture / Douglas Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Douglas, author.

Contributor:

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Open Textbook Library.

Open textbook library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study.

Music.

Music--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Updated irregularly.

Distribution:

Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

Place of Publication:

New York : CUNY Academic Works, 2015-

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"Welcome to Music 1300, Music: Its Language History, and Culture. The course has a number of interrelated objectives: 1. To introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions. These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent); 2. To enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study, employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, and form used by musicians; 3. To explore with you the historic, social, and cultural contexts and the role of class, ethnicity, and gender in the creation and performance of music, including practices of improvisation and the implications of oral and notated transmission; 4. To acquaint you with the sources of musical sounds-instruments and voices from different cultures, found sounds, electronically generated sounds; basic principles that determine pitch and timbre; 5. To examine the influence of technology, mass media, globalization, and transnational currents on the music of today. The chapters in this reader contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts, short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketches of major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music from different periods and places."--Open Textbook Library.

Contents:

Elements of Sound and Music

Musical Instruments and Ensembles

Composer, Performer, Audience

European Art Music : Middle Ages through Romantic

European and American Art Music since 1900

American Vernacular Music

Jazz

World Music

Musician Biographies

Notes:

Originally 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014 by the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

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Description based on online version, 2015; Title from PDF (viewed on May 2, 2017)

ISBN:

0991388704

9780991388707

OCLC:

985111476

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access