Study Guide: For the Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening, Tenth Edition

by Kristine Forney

This useful workbook reinforces chapter content with text-review materials, including listening exercises, cultural explorations, sample concert report outlines, and review assignments. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393928918
• ISBN13: 9780393928914
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent History of Music!!!

This is an excellent book to read and study music from. It lays out the history of music in a very understandable manner for an average person. The timeline of music consisting of such musical eras as the medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, post-romantic, impressionism, early twentieth century and later twentieth century is very enlightening. It's all there from folk to jazz to ragtime and swing. The great composers would have loved to read this one. By the way, poets, make your feast on the history of the Troubadours, Trobairitz, Trouveres and Minnesingers poet-musicians from the middle ages from France and Germany. This is really an interesting book to read regarding music. It's truly educational. Also check "Trilogy Moments for the Miond, Body and Soul" with a new selection of Epulaeryu poems.

Responding to "a reader"

In response to "a reader's" review, Holst and Orff did not contribute to the larger schema of music history. Although a work like "Carmina Burana" is significant only because it's been rehashed over in dramatic parts of a film, it has little value in terms of delineating trends in music. I only partially agree with his/her assessment of J.-de-la-Guerre because her work is used more to show a common example of highly ornamented French harpsichord music, rather than the composer herself. This is a well-organized book, giving a survey (keyword: SURVEY) of Western music, which means that if you want to learn about Elgar, read a book on him.

Is there a better book introducing classical music?

If you love classical music, as I do, this is the book to tell you about what you are listening to. That is, for someone like me who has almost no natural musical ability, but does for some strange reason have a profound appreciation for it. How classical music manages to convey its ineffable beauty, I don't know, but it does. This book allows you to place what you are listening to in its place within the whole field of Western classical music.

One of the very best of its kind

I had read this book when I was a music student, and thought, at the time, it was one of the most interesting books ever assigned by any teacher. I am now a music teacher and have been recommending this book to the students who came to me asking for a good music appreciation book. To say everyone is happy with the book is to understate the fact. The book, indeed, speaks for itself!

An Amazing Introduction to Music History

Being both a music teacher and a music student I approached this book from many angles and happily, I was not disappointed at all. This book superbly captures Music History and with the right balance of pictures and content, makes a tough subject truly enjoyable. I specifically enjoyed the Cultural Perspectives that gave a alternative angle on the information. If you have the accompanying CD's or tapes then this book can be described as a truly memorable experience. If you haven't, don't be put off. It still is an essential read.