Music An Appreciation
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Music
Music An Appreciation Details
About the Author Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita. Read more
Reviews
I've used this text book for the past 5 years in my college entrance to Fine Arts Music class. Personally I've found this text book very easy to use compared to other texts. Subject matter is laid out logically according to music time periods starting with the Medieval era and coming to the present. Plenty of listening and written musical examples to illustrate the evolution of music from a Western World view. Does not include any music of the world such as Oriental, East Indian, South Pacific history. The brief is approximately 200 pages shorter than the full text version, but I prefer this shorter version for beginning college students.
