Zakiyyah Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 I take Music HL and my school uses [i]Listening to Music[/i] by Craig Wright. Unfortunately, I don't think the book really helps me in doing music analysis. All it does is introduce what the four music periods are. It is good to know more about each period, but the book doesn't really give a lot of good examples. I understand what the book says, but when it comes to doing music analysis, I don't know how to apply the knowledge/recognise the stuff on the scores. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what book I should probably refer to in order to improve my music analysis skills? We're currently teaching Romantic, but apparently in our end-of-year exams this year, we're going to be tested as if we were sitting for the real exam and I doubt we'd cover a lot of different music periods/genres before that... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAP Tenor Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 [quote name='Zakiyyah' post='38559' date='Mar 1 2009, 01:42 PM']I take Music HL and my school uses [i]Listening to Music[/i] by Craig Wright. Unfortunately, I don't think the book really helps me in doing music analysis. All it does is introduce what the four music periods are. It is good to know more about each period, but the book doesn't really give a lot of good examples. I understand what the book says, but when it comes to doing music analysis, I don't know how to apply the knowledge/recognise the stuff on the scores. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what book I should probably refer to in order to improve my music analysis skills? We're currently teaching Romantic, but apparently in our end-of-year exams this year, we're going to be tested as if we were sitting for the real exam and I doubt we'd cover a lot of different music periods/genres before that... [/quote] We use History of Western Music 7th Edition---Grout---it's published by W.W. Norton--it's expensive but it takes you through each period and musical form. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastminuteman Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 We Use Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien [url="http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kamienb/"]http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kamienb/[/url] It covers world, western and western art music, and there's a lot of handy terminology in there. Shiny too. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flareout26 Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 World Sound Matters is one of the top picks for understanding world music cultures - by Jonathan Stock Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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