5-CD set for Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition Author: Roger Kamien | Language: English | ISBN:
0077377729 | Format: PDF
5-CD set for Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition Description
This 5-CD set includes opera clips and other musical pieces for use with the Brief Edition of Music: An Appreciation. These audio CD's may be used with the listening software available on the text's Online Learning Center.
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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 7 edition (July 6, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780077377724
- ISBN-13: 978-0077377724
- ASIN: 0077377729
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This book purports to be a survey of music from the Middle Ages through the present; as such, it spends rather a lot of space covering music from 450 AD through 1900, and precious little attention on anything that could loosely be considered "modern". It also gives only a short chapter nod-of-the-head to non-western music, with a tiny subchapter on sub-Saharan Africa and a slightly longer subchapter on Indian Classical music and Ravi Shankar. It seems to me that if the desire was to write a text on "classical" music from pre-1900, it would have been better to simply do so and make no attempt to PRETEND to pay any attention to anything more recent, and leave the more recent music to another book entirely. (And yet another one for "Non-Western World Music".) By making vague hand-waving gestures at including recent and non-Western music but doing such a slipshod job of it, the author has seriously weakened his claim to accomplishing what he sets out to do.
To make matters worse, the editing in the book is atrocious for a seventh edition; one would hope that the majority of the careless errors in writing would have been caught by now. Granted, most of the errors occur in the parts of the book that deal with post-1900 music, so perhaps it's a sign that these sections simply weren't considered important enough to bother proofreading; we have such sloppy mistakes as (on page 318) "Bela Bartok...was born Hungary..." (rather than "born IN Hungary" -- I suspect the author was not suggesting that Bartok was born with an appetite, and even if he was, THAT was misspelled), or on page 324, "(George Gershwin's) parents were Russian-Jewish immigrant..." rather than "immigrants", or on 325, "...clarinet solo that stasrts...", or on 330, "His textures clear..." rather than "are clear", or on 334, "...
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