Listening to Music (with Introduction to Listening CDROM) (Available Titles CourseMate),Used

The only music appreciation text on the market to include listening exercises throughout the book, Listening to Music (Sixth Edition) masterfully develops and refines the listening skills of students. Acclaimed for unparalleled clarity and accuracy, Wright succinctly covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern. Musical examples from each historical period are discussed within their social context, giving students a broad sense of not only the construction of a piece, but also its historical and cultural meaning. Concluding chapters discuss (1) popular music and its impact on musical globalization, and (2) music from East Asia, the Near East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, drawing comparisons between Western and nonWestern musical cultures. This chronological text actively develops listening skills in three important ways: First, Listening to Music includes detailed Listening Exercises throughout the book. These easytograde exercises help students focus on important musical elements and episodes; by providing these exercises in the book, Craig Wright (who teaches music appreciation and uses these exercises himself) frees instructors to spend time on other aspects of class preparation. Second, a free "Introduction to Listening" CD comes packaged with each copy of the text. This CD plays all of the music and musical examples for the listening exercises in Part One, which introduces music fundamentals. Third, Active Listening Guides with streaming music and listening quizzes are available from the Schirmer Cengage Learning premium website to further challenge and test students.About This EditionNew FeaturesIncreasing the flexibility of the package, we now offer a twoCD set of core selections, a fiveCD set of Western repertoire, and a separate popular/world CD. For the first time, music from the CD sets can be fully streamed on the premium website.For the first time, the text's companion site links to a complete online course taught by Craig Wright at Open Yale Courses, an openaccess selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The courses include exciting, live inclass performances and demonstrations.More than 20 new, carefully selected pieces, as well as many fine new recordings of previous selections, have been added.Expanded coverage of popular music, including Broadway musicals and film and video game music, as well as new fullchapter coverage of music of the Far East, the Near East and Africa, and the Caribbean and Latin America. Recordings include more internal tracks to facilitate navigation to significant events in each piece.Margin references to the text website, as well as to online iTunes, Rhapsody, and YouTube playlists.Completely redesigned Active Listening Guides with streaming music that engage students and help make the vocabulary and performances more accessible.Additional FeaturesA split volume of the first 36 chapters, covering only Western (or classical) music, is available. Listening to Western Music will appeal to instructors who teach only classical music or who prefer a briefer and less expensive text that leaves world and popular music to other courses in the school curriculum.The main text is organized into 43 brief chapters that are introduced by eight part openers, each featuring an introduction to the historical period and an illustrated timeline of musical and historic events.The text is written by Craig Wright, a renowned music historian and teacher, who has been teaching music appreciation for more than 30 years. By teaching the course every year, Wright remains in touch with what today's students need to become personally engaged in the act of listening to music.The musical repertoire selected by Craig Wright is a definitive collection of carefully chosen recordings by worldrenowned artists. The complete Western repertoire is packaged in a fiveCD set; a twoCD set provides a smaller, core select