Music: A Listener's Introduction.

First edition of Kenneth Levy's classic music-appreciation text. Quarto, original pictorial boards, timeline endpapers, illustrated throughout. From the collection of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family ("Those Were the Days"). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever, with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation — from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later — and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. With his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper and half-title page. In very good condition. Music: A Listener's Introduction (1983) is a music-appreciation textbook by Kenneth Levy (1927-2013), a distinguished American musicologist and longtime professor at Princeton University. Designed to guide newcomers toward informed and pleasurable listening, the book surveys the elements of music and the Western tradition from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with attention to form, style, and historical context. Levy was an internationally recognized authority on the chant traditions of the early Church, both Gregorian and Byzantine, and on the transmission of medieval music; among his influential scholarly works is Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians (1998). This introductory volume distilled his decades in the classroom into an accessible survey for the general reader and student.…