Product Description: Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music..
. This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students� attention on musical events as they unfold. .
. This edition moves most of the content of the companion multi-media CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center providing open access for all students to the many activities and video instrument demonstrations. .
Where's my book?!? I ordered this book 2 weeks ago with expedited shipping and It's past the due date and I still haven't got it.
Was this new?? This book was in excellent condition and even included the cd set; that was an unexpected surprise. I payed an excellent price and recieved excellent merchandise.
Brief, but thorough I've seen the unabridged version of this book and it's as big as an encyclopedia. The Brief Edition does well to summarize the important points in music history; though the meat of the book is centered in the classical (Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Classical, Opera) and merely touches on the more modern componets like jazz and rock. Still, the book and accompanying CD are excellent for those wanting to get a light but informative immersion in the classic music world and learn a little bit about its most famous composers.
Music:An Appreciation, Brief Edition I was disappointed with the book I received only because it wasn't the ISBN number that I ordered. I placed the correct ISBN number in and it pulled up the correct book, however, it was not the book with the CD set. I placed the ISBN number in for the book with the CD set. The book I received had a TOTALLY different ISBN number for it. I am TRULY disappointed with this and will probably never order from Amazon again.
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