Music: An Appreciation - Softcover

Kamien, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078025095 ISBN 13: 9780078025099

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2010

Synopsis

What does it take to make a great performance? It takes great music, a great performer and a great instrument. Music: An Appreciation includes some of the greatest music ever created. Roger Kamien's excellence as an interpreter of that music has made his program number one in the market used by over half a million students since its conception. Now, CONNECT Kamien provides the world-class instrument that allows Music: An Appreciation to bring great music to his audience in an extraordinary new way. Music: An Appreciation is great music, a great interpreter, and a great instrument.

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About the Author

Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0078025095
• ISBN 13: 9780078025099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 455