Music and human experience

Music and human experience / Arthur Komar.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Komar, Arthur J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Schirmer Books, ©1980.
Series:Macmillan.
Subjects:
Music appreciation.
Table of Contents:
  • Index of composers and compositions
  • Introduction
  • Note to the student
  • Acknowledgments
  • Unit I. Music and nature. Nature in orchestral settings - Basics: music history and form - Basics: research and notation - Nature in vocal music - The composer as imitator - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit I
  • Unit II. The music of lands and peoples. The music of European nationalism - Basics: nineteenth-century music history - American music - Basics; the concept of tonic - Popular music in the American concert hall - Home and abroad - The old world looks at the new - Checklist: concepts and terms in Unit II - Review: units I and II
  • Unit III. Music and society. Marriage and the social class - The family - Society: real and ideal - Music and children - Musical democracy: chamber music - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit III
  • Unit IV. Music and ideas. The composer as philosopher - The Romantic composer/philosopher - The twentieth-century composer/philosopher - Music and literature - Faust and the dilemma of the modern composer - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit IV - Review: units III and IV
  • Unit V. Music and religion. The music of Catholicism - Music and the Protestant reformation - Religious drama - Basics: religion and music history - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit V
  • Unit VI. Music and emotion. Music and mood - Music of mania and despair - Music and love - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit VI - Review: units V and VI
  • Unit VII. Music and death. The dance of death - The voice of death - Memorial music - Finality--must it be? - Checklist: concepts and terms in unit VII - Review: unit VII - Note to reader - Appendix I. Projects and assignments - Appendix II. Glossary of terms - Notes
  • General index.

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