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Gateways to Understanding Music

By (author) Dave Wilson, Timothy Rice
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Published: 28th Jan 2019
Dimensions: w 217mm h 280mm d 28mm
Weight: 1818g
ISBN-10: 1138039063
ISBN-13: 9781138039063
Barcode No: 9781138039063
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Synopsis
Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, students are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world. FEATURES Global scope-Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz. Historical narrative-Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences. Modular framework-60 gateways in 14 chapters allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology. Listening-guided learning-Leads to understanding the emotion, meaning, significance, and history of music. Introduction of musical concepts-Defined as needed and compiled into a Glossary for reference. Consistent structure-With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music. In addition to streamed audio examples, the companion website hosts essential instructors' resources.

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"At last! An innovative, practical, and inclusive approach to studying music of Europe, North America, and beyond that puts popular and world music, American jazz, and European classical music into conversation with one another by looking at their origins and interrelationships through the lens of World history."

-Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor, The College of William and Mary

"Gateways to Understanding Music provides a profoundly new and refreshingly original approach to examining the music of the world's cultures in cohesive, comparable, and contrasting ways that illuminate the power and meaning of all of the musics."

-Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina "At last! An innovative, practical, and inclusive approach to studying music of Europe, North America, and beyond that puts popular and world music, American jazz, and European classical music into conversation with one another by looking at their origins and interrelationships through the lens of World history."

- Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor, The College of William and Mary

"Gateways to Understanding Music provides a profoundly new and refreshingly original approach to examining the music of the world's cultures in cohesive, comparable, and contrasting ways that illuminate the power and meaning of all of the musics."

- Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina