iotabebraindead Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 What textbooks do you all use? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleAdams Posted October 20, 2009 Report Share Posted October 20, 2009 My class uses The Enjoyment of Music. It is quite thorough on the history aspect of the class, but it doesn't delve in to theory much at all. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommeDesEnfants Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 The IB Music class at my school uses "Music: An Appreciation," which I haven't had much experience with but looks okay. For my historical music studies, I've used "The Enjoyment of Music" too, which is definitely much more historical-based as opposed to talking about theoretical things. However, their coverage of specific works by pointing out prominent musical features is a nice overview, and is probably sufficient for exams. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nena Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 We use "Music: An Appreciation" and it's super easy to understand Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charizard Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 We also use Kamien's Music: An Appreciation. It's a huge book but I think it has a good balance between musical analysis/characteristics and musical history/context. It also has these useful little listening guides scattered throughout that sound like they would be helpful for our listening exams in terms of structural analysis. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyseed Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 (edited) Our class also uses Kamien's Music: An Appreciation but for World Music we use World Music: A Global Journey by Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari. Edited July 14, 2010 by poppyseed Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplisticwonders Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 I honestly don't know what we use.We have Heinemann Advanced Music as our primary textbook. However, we don't use it.Our lack of textbooks in my school is because our IB Music teacher taught a course similar to it at the college level, so he's teaching us from those notes.Advanced Music covers the Music history as well as some theory. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonatC Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 We mainly use books under the 'Cambridge assignments in music'. For the history aspect of Music we use, 'History of Music' by Roy Bennet And for the world aspect, 'Music Worldwide' by Elizabeth Sharma They are really easy to understand and are great for general knowledge and an overview of the topics but aren't really in depth. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrangerDanger Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 This was really helpful! I've been trying to find books I can use to study since I'm doing Music as independent study and I have no course materials. Thank you all! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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