Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening

by Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell'Antonio

Overview

The essential skills for listening to, understanding, and enjoying music

The Enjoyment of Music, Essential Listening Edition, weaves together a concise text and rich media resources in a compact and affordable package that gives students all they need for an enriched listening experience. The new Fourth Edition features enhanced pedagogy built around new listening objectives and Listening Challenge online activities, a revised repertory that includes popular teaching pieces, and streamlined Listening Guides that make it easier for students to identify the important things to listen for in each selection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393421507
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kristine Forney is Professor Emerita on the music history faculty at California State University, Long Beach, which she first joined in 1978. She specializes in Renaissance music, is a performer and teacher of historical instruments, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles exploring diverse facets of Renaissance musical life and practices. She has taught music appreciation to thousands of undergraduate students and has been an author of The Enjoyment of Music since 1988.

Andrew Dell'Antonio is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Winner of the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, he teaches courses in musical historiography, feminist/queer theory, and cultural studies. Dell'Antonio is a specialist in musical repertories of early modern Europe, and his recent work investigates topics as diverse as postmodern modes of hearing and changing listening practices in the early Italian Baroque.