Listening To Music

HEAR THE NEWS! "LISTENING TO MUSIC" IS BETTER THAN EVER! Listening to Music"'s step-by-step presentation, accessible and reader-friendly approach, and focus on the music and composers helps you gain the effective listening skills needed to identify composers, their styles, and their music." "Listening to Music "reflects the successful and innovative approach used in Dr. Jay Zorn's popular course in music appreciation. Written in a lively and appealing style, L"istening to Music" provides the foundation for acquiring a lifelong knowledge and appreciation of music. It concentrates on the effective listening skills needed to identify composers and to recognize their styles and some of their representative works-playing in the background of the social, economic, and historical influences in their lives. By reading this book, you'll become an informed consumer of music, gaining not only new expertise and insights but also being able to choose from the musical offerings available to you. From world music to jazz; classical music to rock; Broadway and film; "Listening to Music" is the ideal introduction to today's musical world. NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION "NEW"! UPDATED DESIGN and FULL COLOR FORMAT

• Presents material in a more attractive, readable format.
• Art work and maps presented in full-color

"NEW"! Complete chapter on JAZZ

• Expands coverage
• Gives Jazz the attention it deserves

"NEW! "Limitless online listening

• Exposes students to more music
• Allows professor to customize listening tasks
• Ability to download files for later study

"NEW"! On line Source Documents

• Seminal readings on musichistory available in one place
• Gives students deeper understanding of music history

"EXPANDED AND UPDATED!" Coverage of rock, rap, world music, Broadway, film music, and other styles

• Fulfills need for diversity
• Presents music students know and enjoy

Written in a lively and appealing style, "Listening to Music" provides the foundation for acquiring a lifelong knowledge and appreciation of music. It concentrates on the effective listening skills needed to identify composers and to recognize their styles and some of their representative works. Readers are encouraged to become informed consumers of music and active supporters of the arts. An accompanying 4 CD set provides selections that will reinforce the book's written material. This comprehensive book covers the musical process, the materials of music, the common style periods of concert music (from the Baroque period to the present), and adjunct music, including North American popular music, broadway musical theater, and music in the movies. A useful reference work for those in the music industry.