Music : the art of listening / Jean Ferris

By:

Ferris, Jean

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Madison, WI : Brown & Benchmark, c1995.Edition: 4th edDescription: 448p. : ill. (some col) ; 23cmISBN:

0697245446

Subject(s):

Music appreciation

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 780 FER

Summary: [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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Arts/Music	780 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00007320

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.

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