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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 781.17 EAN: 9780070272125 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0070272123 Label: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: January 01, 2001 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Studio: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Music in Our World is the first text in music appreciation completely devoted to the study of music elements and to investing students with active listening skills. The text examines each musical element from a number of angles - completely integrating world music throughout the discussion. The three chapters on Melody, for example, cite the work of Hildegard of Bingen, Ravi Shankar, and Giacomo Puccini. This unique, elements-based approach engages students in actively listening to the broadest range of music available for music appreciation. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Should clearly state not included soundtrack dischow come a brand new book without the two CD, i am really mad now. Rating: - Good with the badGood: textbook engages form AND context. Attempts to combine multiplicity of legitimate approaches to music, reflecting postmod. emphasis on culture and function rather than just form, theory and "greats" from Western tradition. Appropriate length for course of likely nonmajors and 100 level. Bad: sloppy transitions - very choppy, unbalanced shifts between formal components and the situating of those components into a cultural setting. Ex.: Ch. 4: What is the point of discussing meter ... Read More Rating: - Good Scope, Bad DefinitionThe professor for my general education music appreciation course picked this book because she likes its emphasis on world music and the way that it is organized around the five elements of music. I really like this structure as well. What I don't like so much is when she has to say, "Oksy, this is what the book says, but that's a horrible definition of phrase," for example. "This is the definition we will use." Now, obviously any college course isn't built around a book, but goodness, that doesn't ... Read More Rating:  - No soundscape!Anticipating a lecture on Gregorian chant by Randel, the new president of the University of Chicago, I approached our newly acquired copy of MUSIC IN OUR WORLD through its index. Turning to the indicated pages I saw how Gregorian was discussed in the set of pages overlapping with Hildegard of Bingen. Of course I wanted to hear the contrast between the two musics. Alas! the CD meant to accompany the text was, according to the what we learned from Amazon, NOT YET AVAILABLE. Yet we knew from other sources ... Read More 
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