Listening to Music
By Lorenzo Candelaria, Craig Wright
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Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, is designed to help develop and refine the listening skills of your students and to inspire a lifelong appreciation of music. Throughout the book, students are guided through some of the most iconic musical compositions, not only to identify musical elements, but also to enjoy them. Organized chronologically, the text discusses musical examples from every era in its social context, describing each piece's construction as well as its culture.
Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, is fully integrated with MindTap to get students to truly listen to music and not just hear it. Designed to develop listening skills, the MindTap online resources include Listening Activities with streaming music, listening quizzes, test banks with audio clips, and Directed Listening Guides that visually represent the musical composition while providing detailed analysis.
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Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, is designed to help develop and refine the listening skills of your students and to inspire a lifelong appreciation of music. Throughout the book, students are guided through some of the most iconic musical compositions, not only to identify musical elements, but also to enjoy them. Organized chronologically, the text discusses musical examples from every era in its social context, describing each piece's construction as well as its culture.
Wright/Candelaria's LISTENING TO MUSIC, 9th EDITION, is fully integrated with MindTap to get students to truly listen to music and not just hear it. Designed to develop listening skills, the MindTap online resources include Listening Activities with streaming music, listening quizzes, test banks with audio clips, and Directed Listening Guides that visually represent the musical composition while providing detailed analysis.
Accessible to learners from a variety of backgrounds, this edition adopts a student-friendly format that includes 34 chapters introduced by eight-part openers -- each with an introduction and timeline. Checklists of Musical Style help students efficiently summarize the information presented for each era.
This edition's thorough coverage of women as composers, performers and patrons highlights Hildegard of Bingen, Beatriz of Dia, Clara Schumann, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Caroline Shaw and Bessie Smith.
Student-centered approach that is rooted in making music accessible to readers that might not have formally studied music or be accustomed to listening deeply to music.
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Part I. Introduction to Listening
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