Soundscapes exploring music in a changing world

Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World


A global approach to music across cultures – this book helps students listen to all music and understand its place in an interconnected world. Using a cross-cultural framework that balances coverage of traditional, classical, and popular styles of music from every region of the world and a three-part organization – Listening to Music, Transmitting Music, and Understanding Music – the book presents music as an ever-changing, geographically unrestrained form of human expression. Music fundamentals are presented from a global perspective. An Indian raga is used to introduce intervals, while rhythm and meter are illustrated by comparing a four-beat, straight-ahead rhyming Bahamian spiritual with Dave Brubeck's nine-beat
Blue Rondo à la Turk
. In-text listening guides feature "what to listen for" boxes highlighting essential features of each work, and concise headnotes with recording dates, performers, composers, forms, and functions. Interactive listening guides compatible with mobile devices allow students to focus on essential features as they listen online anytime, anywhere. Accessible text, streamlined design, and engaging pedag

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Book Description

Listening without boundaries―Total Access to the music of the world. Music doesn’t stop at the

border, and neither should your textbook. This text gives students a global sense of music and its

significance across cultures by introducing them to a diverse repertoire and developing listening

skills applicable to all music. An accessible three-part model for listening―sound, setting, and

significance―facilitates comparisons of various musical styles and meanings, and with Total

Access, Soundscapes provides the digital resources students need to discover new music in a

digitally connected world.










Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (ThirdEdition)BOOK DETAILAmazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a freebusiness account Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Third edition (February 1,2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393918289 ISBN-13: 978-0393918281 Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.9 x10 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)Step By Step To Download Or Rea

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Creator

Kay Kaufman Shelemay



Format

Books



Language

English



Publication



Third edition

New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

©2015





Physical Details



xxxix, 425 pages, 60 variously numbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm





ISBNs

9780393918281, 0393918289, 9780393522624



OCLC

ocn898043718






Supplemented by Recordings disc DVD-ROM.

Includes bibliographical references and index.





Part I, Listening to music. Sound : the materials of music ; Setting : the study of local musics ; Significance : music's meaning in everyday life -- Part II, Transmitting music. Music and migration ; Music and memory ; Music, mobility, and the global marketplace -- Part III, Understanding music. Music and dance ; Music and ritual ; Music and politics ; Music and identity





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Soundscapes: Exploring Music In A Changing World (Second Edition) PDF The innovative music textbook packaged with its three accompanying audio CDs.Soundscapes breaks new ground by organizing the study of world music according to its cultural significance, rather than by geography alone. The Second Edition provides even better coverage of the cultures surrounding the music and focuses more closely on honing students’ listening skills. The Second Edition also features a striking new design, new chapter organization, and expanded listening guides. This edition also includes three accompanying audio CDs, which contain over seventy performances discussed in the text and outlined in the listening guides. This edition contains both the textbook and the audio CDs. The textbook (978-0-393-92567-8) and the three-CD set (978-0-393-10684-8) are also each available to be purchased separately. Paperback: 450 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition (June 8, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393167135 ISBN-13: 978-0393167139 Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 1 x 10.1 inches Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds Average Customer Review: 4.1 out