Music : the art of listening /
Ferris, Jean
Music : the art of listening / Jean Ferris - 4th ed. - Madison, WI : Brown & Benchmark, c1995. - 448p. : ill. (some col) ; 23cm.
Includes index
[This] is a ... textbook for the beginning student of music history and appreciation, written in language readily understandable by a reader with no previous music experience. Throughout the text, music is presented in its broad cultural and historical context, never as a phenomenon isolated from the experience surrounding it. Relationships are drawn between music and the other arts, with which students may have more familiarity, and between the music characteristic of one period and music of the distant past and of modern times.-Pref.
0697245446
Music appreciation.
780 FER
Music : the art of listening / Jean Ferris - 4th ed. - Madison, WI : Brown & Benchmark, c1995. - 448p. : ill. (some col) ; 23cm.
Includes index
[This] is a ... textbook for the beginning student of music history and appreciation, written in language readily understandable by a reader with no previous music experience. Throughout the text, music is presented in its broad cultural and historical context, never as a phenomenon isolated from the experience surrounding it. Relationships are drawn between music and the other arts, with which students may have more familiarity, and between the music characteristic of one period and music of the distant past and of modern times.-Pref.
0697245446
Music appreciation.
780 FER