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Title: Gateways to Understanding Music
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138039063
ISBN 13: 9781138039063
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 3.106 pounds

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Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, students are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world.

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Global scope―Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz.
Historical narrative―Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences.
Modular framework―60 gateways in 14 chapters allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology.
Listening-guided learning―Leads to understanding the emotion, meaning, significance, and history of music.
Introduction of musical concepts―Defined as needed and compiled into a Glossary for reference.
Consistent structure―With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music.

In addition to streamed audio examples, the companion website hosts essential instructors’ resources.

About the Author

Timothy Rice is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, and founding director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Herb Alpert School of Music.

Dave Wilson is Lecturer in Music at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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