The Usborne Internet-Linked Introduction to Music,9780746037690

The Usborne Internet-Linked Introduction to Music

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ISBN13: 9780746037690
ISBN10: 0746037694
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Edc Pub
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Summary

Covers a wide range of musical information including music styles, composing, performing, musical notation, movie soundtracks, sound recording, opera, ballet, the music industry and how instruments work

Table of Contents

Listening to musicp. 3
Internet linksp. 4
Types of musicp. 6
Rock and popp. 8
Popular music stylesp. 10
More popular stylesp. 12
The music industryp. 14
What is jazz?p. 16
How jazz beganp. 18
Music in ancient timesp. 20
Medieval musicp. 21
Renaissance musicp. 22
Writing music downp. 24
Scalesp. 26
Baroque musicp. 28
Classical musicp. 30
Romantic musicp. 32
Nationalist musicp. 34
20th century musicp. 36
Music in the Far Eastp. 38
Music in Africap. 40
Native American musicp. 42
Arab musicp. 43
The science of soundp. 44
The composerp. 46
The performerp. 48
Balletp. 50
Singingp. 52
The story of opera Ip. 54
The story of opera IIp. 56
Music for movies and televisionp. 58
Sound reproductionp. 60
How instruments workp. 62
The orchestrap. 64
Stringed instrumentsp. 66
Woodwind instrumentsp. 67
Brass instrumentsp. 68
Percussion instrumentsp. 69
Keyboard instrumentsp. 70
Electric and electronic instrumentsp. 71
Learning and instrumentp. 72
Reading music Ip. 74
Reading music IIp. 76
Reading music IIIp. 78
Classical composersp. 80
Music on the Internetp. 86
Glossaryp. 90
Instructions in musicp. 93
Indexp. 94
Acknowledgementsp. 96
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