First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This text provides an understanding of the elements of music appreciation in a multicultural and historical context. The second edition has been restructured to refine and strengthen the elements that help students learn more effectively. The book emphasizes skills in three main areas: listening, musical elements and forms, and musical styles. The textbook is packaged with two sixty-minute cassettes. Each concept presented in the text is demonstrated by a recorded example gathered from a rich di...
Kindling the Spark: Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent
by Professor of Piano Joanne Haroutounian
Painters and musicians have always found inspiration by sharing ideas from both disciplines. How this relationship developed from Philipp Otto Runge's "compositions" in painting to Jean Tinguely's and Niki de Saint Phalle's musical sculpture is the focus of this volume. Selected images and quotations from composers and artists are blended into this study. Runge and Richard Wagner recognised the interdependency of music and art in the creation of abstract, symbolic language. However, as in the wo...
High Low Dolly Pepper (Book + CD) (Songbooks) (Classroom Music)
by Veronica Clark
Teachers can work through this resource, or dip into it. It includes games, poems, songs and stories, and offers children the chance to understand the basic elements which make up music through a collection of varied and humorous material. The CD contains all the songs and stories. Developing basic music skills with songs, rhymes and stories. A wealth of material for cross-curricular learning, including first forays into the science of sound. Photocopiable game sheets and a CD of all t...
Music Smart! Ready to Use Listening Tapes and Activities for Teaching Music Appreciation
by Gwen Hotchkiss
Here is a completre instructional program to introduce K-8 students to 21 great works of music - including background on each composition and composer...teaching strategies for presentation...student activities, games and worksheets...a listening cassette tape.. and a performance score students can play or sing along with the tape.
Professor Anthon E. Darling, B.S., the creation of author David E. Walden, discusses his favourite instrument, the piano, in a book that is riotously revealing, rich and redolent in humour and offering a smidgen of intellectual stimulation. Darling is brutally fearlesss, with searingly honest titles like COULD WE PLEASE DISCUSS THE ROMANTICS WITHOUT MENTIONING S.E.X.? And who else but he would boldly face the piano music of the modern era with a title sure to create controversy, namely FONDLED,...
Irish & Scottish Airs & Ballads for Acoustic Guitar (Mel Bay Archive Editions)
by Bill Brennan
World At Your Fingertips Book 1 (Learning Link, BK 1)
by Deborah Brener and Nancy Lau
Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training. This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate...