Music Listening Today 3e 3rdEditon Edition  (English, Book, HOFFER)

Charles Hoffer's best-selling Music listening today is a complete course solution that develops students' listening skills while teaching them to appreciate the different styles, forms, and genres of music. This affordable, brief, chronological survey text features two CDs-automatically included with new copies of the book at no additional cost-that contain the text's core music selections. It also features CengageNOW, an online multimedia tool that helps students hone their listening skills while it aids instructors in organizing and managing their courses. As in previous editions, MUSIC LISTENING TODAY provides dozens of familiar and less familiar selections-all carefully chosen for their ability to get students interested in listening to all kinds of music. The text's modular format lets instructors teach in any way they choose.

Key Features

• Every copy of this text includes two free audio CDs at no additional cost. These include a complete core listening program of 32 selections that covers the entire text.
• 43 concise chapters give instructors flexibility in course management and can be read in one sitting.
• The book offers coverage of popular music as well as a substantial sample of music from different cultures around the world.
• Short composer biographies and informational boxes offer cultural and social background that enriches the musical selections.
• Downloadable Active Listening Guides for the CDs graphically show the progression of the work in a Listening Guide perfectly synchronized with the music. As an arrow moves along the work, musical examples and commentary appear at just the right moment. Replaying any section of the work is as easy as a click of the mouse. These tools also give students live access to biographical sketches, musical terms, interactive"Practice Listening Quizzes," and links to related websites.

Table Of Contents
Part I. The nature of music.

• 1. Music Listening and You.
• 2. Rhythm.
• 3. Melody and Harmony.
• 4. Dynamics, Timbre, and Organization.
• 5. Orchestral Instruments.
• 6. Other Musical Instruments.

Part II. Early, medieval, and renaissance music.

• 7. Early Western Music.
• 8. Medieval Music.
• 9. Renaissance Music.

Part III. Baroque music.

• 10. The Baroque Period.
• 11. Oratorio and Cantata.
• 12. Opera in the Baroque.
• 13. Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata.
• 14. Baroque Instrumental Music: Concerto and Fugue.

Part IV. Classical music.

• 15. Classicism and Classical Music.
• 16. Sonata Form.
• 17. The Concerto.
• 18. Classical Opera.
• 19. Chamber Music.
• 20. Piano Sonatas.
• 21. Beethoven and the Symphony.

Part V. Romantic music.

• 22. Romance and Romanticism.
• 23. Early Romantic Music.
• 24. Romantic Piano Music.
• 25. Program and Ballet Music.
• 26. Romantic Opera.
• 27. Late Romantic Music.
• 28. Nationalism.
• 29. Impressionism and Post-Romanticism.

Part VI. Twentieth-century music.

• 30. Music in the Twentieth Century.
• 31. The Mainstream.
• 32. Expressionism and Primitivism.
• 33. Neoclassicism and Tone Row Music.
• 34. New Sounds and New Techniques.

Part VII. Music in the united states.

• 35. American Music Before 1920.
• 36. Art Music Since 1920.
• 37. Popular Music and Jazz to 1950.
• 38. Popular Music Since 1950.
• 39. Music for Stage and Film.

Part VIII. Music around the world.

• 40. Folk and Ethnic Music.
• 41. Folk Music of Europe and the Americas.
• 42. Music of Africa and the Middle East.
• 43. Music of Asia.