Overview

The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening Edition expands the available formats of the most trusted introduction to music with a new, brief, focused, and highly accessible textbook.

The Essential Listening Edition connects students with the music, providing them with the strongest and most affordable media and listening packages available in music appreciation, all designed to help them build listening skills and understand the essentials of music history.

Applicable Courses

Music, Music Appreciation

TopFeatures

• Listening Activities
  

  Students use the Listening Activities — which appear throughout the text — first to listen to short musical excerpts, then to answer a series of questions that ground their conceptual understanding. In the back of the book, students are provided with the correct answers — and helpful feedback.

• Complete coverage of musical elements up front
  

  The Essential Listening Edition gives students a complete overview of the materials of music up front, with greater depth on tonality and form later, in the appropriate historical context (the Baroque and Classical periods, respectively). This overview at the beginning makes these challenging concepts less daunting when examined in their historical context later in the book.

• In-text listening guides
  

  For the Essential Listening Edition, in-text listening guides have been streamlined in order to focus students even more on essential concepts. "What to Listen For" sections have been sharpened, and descriptions of musical moments have been condensed and clarified. Notated musical examples have been kept to a minimum, making the Listening Guides accessible for students of all skill levels.

• Electronic media
  

  The Essential Listening Edition media package includes the Materials of Music Interactive, Interactive Listening Guides, and web-based versions of listening activities — all tools that make listening easier.

Content Summary

 Table of Contents

TopAbout the Authors

Kristine Forney is Professor of Music at California State University, Long Beach, where she regularly teaches music appreciation and music history to undergraduate students.

The late Joseph Machlis was professor of music at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Top Teacher's Resources

• Instructor's Resource Manual
• Instruments of the Orchestra
• Music Example Bank
• Norton Media Library
• Test Bank

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