Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition: 2025 Release ISE

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.

• PART I Elements1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments3 Rhythm4 Music Notation5 Melody6 Harmony7 Key8 Musical Texture9 Musical Form10 Musical StylePART II The Middle Ages and Renaissance1 Music in the Middle Ages (450-1450)2 Music in the Renaissance (1450-1600)PART III The Baroque Period1 Baroque Music2 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 Cantata10-11 Barbara Strozzi, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre12 The Baroque Sonata13-14 Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach15 The Baroque Suite16 The Chorale and Church Cantata17 The Oratorio18 George Frideric HandelPART IV The Classical Period1 The Classical Style (1750-1820)2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period3 Sonata Form4 Theme and Variations5 Minuet and Trio6 Rondo7 The Classical Symphony8 The Classical Concerto9 The Symphone Concertane (new)10. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (new)11 Classical Chamber Music12-14 Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van BeethovenPART V The Romantic Period1 Romanticism in Music (1820-1900)2 Romantic Composers and Their Public3 The Art Song4-10 Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel11 Program Music12 Hector Berlioz13 Nationalism in Nineteenth- Century Music14-20 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard WagnerPART VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond1 Musical Styles: 1900-19452 Music and Musicians in Society since 19003 Impressionism and Symbolism4-6 Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger7 Primitivism8 Igor Stravinsky9 Neoclassicism10 Sergei Prokofiev11 Expressionism12-14 Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Béla Bartók15 Music in America16-21 Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Florence Price (New), William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera22 Musical Styles since 194523 Music since 1945: Ten Representative Pieces24 Jazz25 Music for Stage and Screen26 Popular Music GenresPART VII Nonwestern Music1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa3 Classical Music of India