The Enjoyment of Music
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The Enjoyment of Music

Twelfth Edition

Price
$12.19
Format
Hardcover
Pages
672
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0393936377
Dimensions
8.3 x 1.2 x 11.2 inches
Weight
3.38 pounds

Description

Book Description with Total Access Registration Card Kristine Forney is Professor Emerita on the music history faculty at California State University, Long Beach, which she first joined in 1978. She specializes in Renaissance music, is a performer and teacher of historical instruments, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles exploring diverse facets of Renaissance musical life and practices. She has taught music appreciation to thousands of undergraduate students and has been an author of The Enjoyment of Music since 1988. Andrew Dell'Antonio is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Winner of the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, he teaches courses in musical historiography, feminist/queer theory, and cultural studies. Dell'Antonio is a specialist in musical repertories of early modern Europe, and his recent work investigates topics as diverse as postmodern modes of hearing and changing listening practices in the early Italian Baroque.The late Joseph Machlis was professor of music at Queens College of the City University of New York. Among his many publications are Introduction to Contemporary Music (Norton) and singing translations for many operas.

Features & Highlights

  • Setting the Standard. Raising the Bar.
  • The Enjoyment of Music
  • has been the most trusted introduction to music for more than five decades.
  • The Enjoyment of Music
  • continues to teach students how to listen and connect to any kind of music. After more than fifty years of successfully preparing students for a lifetime of informed listening, the Twelfth Edition raises the bar with an expanded repertory of appealing music, an exciting new listening and assessment pedagogy, and the richest and most user-friendly online resources available to students today.

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Top notch book, it was very sleek and shiny and basically brand-new . The only thing was the code inside the book was already been used,it's a good thing I didn't need to use it for class
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Does this book come with the access for listening to music for class assignments?
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good textbook.
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... Survey of Music Literature class and found it very useful in my studies

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It worked for my daughter's college class.