Listening to Music - Softcover

Zorn, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130160822 ISBN 13: 9780130160829

Publisher: Pearson College Div

Synopsis

This book provides the foundation for development of one's knowledge of music. It concentrates on "listening" skills in order to increase music appreciation and demystify the concert-going experience. The musical process, the materials of music, the common style periods of music, adjunct music, and audience power.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Designed especially for students with very little background in Western concert music, this book/cassette (or CD) package focuses on learning how to listen to and understand music that spans periods from 600 up to the present. Using a lively style and an appealing context, it sets each major musical period in its social, historical, and economic milieu.

About the Author:

Dr. Jay Zorn is the Chairman of the Music Education Department at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, and a past president of the California Music Educators Association. For 30 years, Dr. Zorn has focused on training music educators, teaching music appreciation to thousands of students, and developing new, courses .designed to appeal to the expanding cultural diversity of student populations.

June August is a playwright whose works have been produced in New England, California, Florida, and off-Broadway. She has been the Editorial Director of the Education Division of Walt Disney Productions and Director of Public Information for the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. In addition, June is a writing consultant and trainer for Fortune 500 companies throughout North America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• ISBN 10: 0130160822
• ISBN 13: 9780130160829
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3