Masterworks: A Musical Discovery, Boxed Set - Softcover

Holoman, D. Kern

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132264080 ISBN 13: 9780132264082

Verlag: Pearson, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This kit contains Holoman's book (Masterworks; A Musical Discovery, 0-13-226358-0; paperbound, 401 pages); a three-disk audio CD set; and a computer interactive CD-ROM (for Mac and IBM). The book covers the technical aspects of pitch, notation, and tonality and moves on to discussions of musical style from the middle ages to contemporary examples of popular songs, jazz, blues, atonality, and electronics. It also contains a glossary and a sampling of musical scores. The audio CDs contain musical performances to illustrate and enhance the presentation in the text. These selections feature good recordings of major artists and musical organizations; however, in several cases not the complete work. More problematical is the computer interactive CD-ROM the publisher decided to include, clearly poorly adapted from another product. The tutorial on its use does not use examples from musical subject matter, and there is a dictionary which under the term Bach yields "to live alone" and "slang for bachelor." Beethoven is not listed. The "Power CD" is very difficult to use, and this kit would not suffer from its absence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Reseña del editor

Its autotutorial component allows readers of varying levels of musical experience to achieve parity at the outset, while it provides self-testing and quick reference throughout the course as well as real-time cueing of specific musical events under consideration.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0132264080
• ISBN 13: 9780132264082
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 401
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