Music: An Appreciation

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.

• Listening Outlines and Vocal Music Guides Listed by Composer Preface PART I Elements 1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color 2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments3 Rhythm4 Music Notation 5 Melody 6 Harmony 7 Key8 Musical Texture9 Musical Form10 Performance11 Musical Style PART II The Middle Ages 1 Music in the Middle Ages (450–1450)2 Gregorian Chant 3 Secular Music in the Middle Ages 4 The Development of Polyphony: Organum 5 Fourteenth-Century Music: The “New Art” in Italy and FrancePART III The Renaissance 1 Music in the Renaissance (1450–1600)2 Sacred Music in the Renaissance3 Secular Music in the Renaissance4 The Venetian School: From Renaissance to BaroquePART IV The Baroque Period1 Baroque Music (1600–1750)2 Music in Baroque Society3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form4 The Fugue5 The Elements of Opera6 Opera in the Baroque Era7 Claudio Monteverdi8 Henry Purcell9 The Baroque Cantata10 Barbara Strozzi11 Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre12 The Baroque Sonata13 Arcangelo Corelli 14 Antonio Vivaldi 15 Johann Sebastian Bach 16 The Baroque Suite 17 The Chorale and Church Cantata 18 The Oratorio 19 George Frideric HandelPART V The Classical Period 1 The Classical Style (1750–1820)2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period3 Sonata Form 4 Theme and Variations5 Minuet and Trio 6 Rondo 7 The Classical Symphony8 The Classical Concerto9 Classical Chamber Music10 Joseph Haydn11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart12 Ludwig van BeethovenPART VI The Romantic Period 1 Romanticism in Music (1820–1900)2 Romantic Composers and Their Public3 The Art Song 4 Franz Schubert5 Robert Schumann6 Clara Wieck Schumann7 Frédéric Chopin8 Franz Liszt9 Felix Mendelssohn10 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel11 Program Music12 Hector Berlioz13 Nationalism in Nineteenth- Century Music14 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky15 Bedřich Smetana16 Antonin Dvořák17 Johannes Brahms18 Georges Bizet19 Giuseppe Verdi20 Giacomo Puccini21 Richard Wagner22 Gustav MahlerPART VII The Twentieth Century and Beyond1 Musical Styles: 1900–19452 Music and Musicians in Society since 19003 Impressionism and Symbolism4 Claude Debussy5 Maurice Ravel6 Lili Boulanger7 Primitivism8 Igor Stravinsky9 Neoclassicism10 Sergei Prokofiev11 Expressionism12 Arnold Schoenberg13 Alban Berg14 Anton Webern15 Béla Bartók16 Dmitri Shostakovich17 Music in America18 Charles Ives 19 George Gershwin20 William Grant Still21 Aaron Copland22 Alberto Ginastera23 Musical Styles since 194524 Music since 1945: Ten Representative PiecesPART VIII Jazz 1 Jazz Styles: (1900–1950)2 Ragtime3 Blues4 New Orleans Style 5 Swing 6 Bebop7 Jazz Styles since 1950PART IX Music for Stage and Screen1 Musical Theater2 Leonard Bernstein3 Lin-Manuel Miranda 4 Music in Film PART X Popular Music Genres1 Elements of Popular Music  2 Music Genres and Star Performers from the 1950s to the Present PART XI Nonwestern Music 1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures 2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa 3 Classical Music of India 4 Koto Music of Japan Appendixes Index