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100 1 _aCohen, Douglas
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aMusic
_bIts Language, History, and Culture
_cDouglas Cohen
264 2 _aMinneapolis, MN
_bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified]
_bCUNY Academic Works
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015.
300 _a1 online resource
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Chapter 1: Elements of Sound and Music -- Chapter 2: Musical Instruments and Ensembles -- Chapter 3: Composer, Performer, Audience -- Chapter 4: European Art Music: Middle Ages through Romantic -- Chapter 5: European and American Art Music since 1900 -- Chapter 6: American Vernacular Music -- Chapter 7: Jazz -- Chapter 8: World Music -- Appendix 1: Musician Biographies -- Appendix 2: Glossary
520 0 _aWelcome to Music 1300, Music: Its Language History, and Culture. The course has a numberof interrelated objectives:1. To introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions.These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Agesthrough the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).2. To enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study,employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre,and form used by musicians.3. To explore with you the historic, social, and cultural contexts and the role of class, ethnicity, and gender in the creation and performance of music,including practices of improvisation and the implications of oral andnotated transmission.4. To acquaint you with the sources of musical sounds—instruments and voices fromdifferent cultures, found sounds, electronically generated sounds; basic principlesthat determine pitch and timbre.5. To examine the influence of technology, mass media, globalization, and transnationalcurrents on the music of today.The chapters in this reader contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts,short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketchesof major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music fromdifferent periods and places.
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546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource
650 0 _aHumanities
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650 0 _aArts
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650 0 _aMusic
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710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
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856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/446
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