Masterworks: A Musical Discovery (2nd Edition)

A COMPLETE PROGRAM

This interconnecting program includes a narrative textbook, a NEW content-rich Masterworks Website (with offline dual-platform CD-ROM), and 4 Sony Music audio compact discs. Masterworks enhances the traditional approach to understanding a musical work by using the personal computer and the Internet to unite the historical story, the visual imagery, and the music.

MUSIC APPRECIATION FUNDAMENTALS

At the core of the program is the text, Masterworks: A Musical Discovery. Using a carefully crafted narrative that draws on the author's engaging lecture style, the text focuses on listeners' own experiences as they come to integrate music and the arts into their lives.The 4 CDs range from Gregorian chants recorded especially for the project by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices to Bethany Beardslee's epochal recording of Babbitt's Philomel, composed with the Princeton/Columbia RCA Mark IV synthesizer. Soloists range from Vladimir Horowitz and Itzhak Perlman to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

BUILDING ON SUCCESS

Now in its second edition, The Masterworks program has been enhanced by a number of important new features:

• Harnessing the dynamic power of the World Wide Web, the main source for the student's multimedia musical experience is now the Masterworks Companion Website. An off-line version of the Masterworks Website is contained on an included CD-ROM.
• The contents of the Masterworks Companion Website has been reorganized so that it mirrors the textbook's chapter organization, making this intuitive program even more "user-friendly." Additionally, marginal icons have now been placed throughout the textbook alerting students to related learning opportunities on the Companion Website.
• As the listening experience stands at the heart of this course, an additional audio compact disc has been added to the recordings program. Ranging from Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor to Amy Beach's Violin Sonata in A Minor to Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 (Heaven-Earth-Mankind), the new selections enrich and enliven an already strong program.