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Author Cohen, Douglas, author.

Title Music : its language, history, and culture / Douglas Cohen.

Publication Info. New York : CUNY Academic Works, 2015-
Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library
©2015-

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Current Frequency Updated irregularly.
Description data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Open textbook library
Open Textbook Library.
Note Originally 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014 by the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Contents Elements of Sound and Music -- Musical Instruments and Ensembles -- Composer, Performer, Audience -- European Art Music : Middle Ages through Romantic -- European and American Art Music since 1900 -- American Vernacular Music -- Jazz -- World Music -- Musician Biographies.
Summary "Welcome to Music 1300, Music: Its Language History, and Culture. The course has a number of interrelated objectives: 1. To introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions. These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent); 2. To enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study, employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, and form used by musicians; 3. To explore with you the historic, social, and cultural contexts and the role of class, ethnicity, and gender in the creation and performance of music, including practices of improvisation and the implications of oral and notated transmission; 4. To acquaint you with the sources of musical sounds--instruments and voices from different cultures, found sounds, electronically generated sounds; basic principles that determine pitch and timbre; 5. To examine the influence of technology, mass media, globalization, and transnational currents on the music of today. The chapters in this reader contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts, short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketches of major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music from different periods and places."--Open Textbook Library.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Music: Its Language, History and Culture by the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en_US)
Local Note Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Subject Music -- Instruction and study.
Music -- Instruction and study.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Textbooks.
Added Author Open Textbook Library, distributor.
ISBN 9780991388707
0991388704