Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening Edition

Building the essential listening skills for understanding and enjoying music

Students come to this course because they love music and want to know more. But understanding music is challenging and students need a framework. That is what The Enjoyment of Music provides. With its focus on what to listen for using rich, integrated media, and well-chosen selections presented in historical and cultural context, students follow a pathway to understanding better and engaging more deeply with their enjoyment of music.

Kristine Forney is Professor Emerita on the music history faculty at California State University, Long Beach, which she first joined in 1978. She specializes in Renaissance music, is a performer and teacher of historical instruments, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles exploring diverse facets of Renaissance musical life and practices. She has taught music appreciation to thousands of undergraduate students and has been an author of The Enjoyment of Music since 1988.

Andrew Dell'Antonio is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Winner of the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, he teaches courses in musical historiography, feminist/queer theory, and cultural studies. Dell'Antonio is a specialist in musical repertories of early modern Europe, and his recent work investigates topics as diverse as postmodern modes of hearing and changing listening practices in the early Italian Baroque.