Gateways to Understanding Music (TEXTBOOK + ANTHOLOGY PACK)

Out of stock at the UK distributor

You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched

TEXTBOOK Introduction /
PART I: MUSIC HISTORY TO 1500 CE / Chapter 1: Music of Small-Scale Societies / Chapter 2: Ancient and Medieval Religious Music / Chapter 3: Ancient and Medieval Secular Music / PART II: MUSIC HISTORY FROM 1500 TO 1890 / Chapter 4: Music from the European
ANTHOLOGY
PART I: MUSIC HISTORY TO 1500 CE / Gateway 1: Music of Foragers / Gateway 2: Music of Nomadic Pastoralists / Gateway 3: Music of Horticultural Societies / Gateway 4: Buddhist Music / Gateway 5: Christian Chant / Gateway 6: Qur'anic Chant / Gateway 7: Earl
PART II: MUSIC HISTORY FROM 1500 TO 1900 / Gateway 12: Renaissance Sacred Vocal Music / Gateway 13: Renaissance Secular Vocal Music / Gateway 14: Renaissance Dance Music / Gateway 15: Renaissance Lute Music / Gateway 16: North Indian Classical Music / Gat
PART III: MUSIC HISTORY DURING THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY / Gateway 35: The Blues / Gateway 36: American Band Music / Gateway 37: Ragtime / Gateway 38: Music of Early European Modernists / Gateway 39: Balinese Gamelan / Gateway 40: Early Jazz / Gateway 41

About
Explore

About

This two-book package contains the paperback textbook (978-1-032-21629-4) and paperback anthology (978-0-367-48538-2).

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical, popular, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, this chronology presents music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty "Gateways" addresses 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. How did the piece come to be composed or performed? How did it respond to the social and cultural issues at the time, and what does that music means today? Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value the music they encounter in their world.

The anthology to accompany the textbook is comprised of musical "texts." These broadly-defined texts-primarily musical scores-facilitate the integration of score study and music theory into the ethno-/musicology curriculum, a necessary focus in the training of the professional musician. As posed by the textbook, the last question in each modular "gateway" is "Where do I go from here?" This resource provides one more opportunity to go beyond the textbook to examine music scores and texts in even greater depth. The anthology is a combination of primary sources for study: musical scores, music transcriptions, along with a few primary source documents and musical exercises.

Book

Contents

Download queue