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Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (excerpt) 8 2 --- --- --- Schubert Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”), I (excerpt) 11 3 --- --- --- Gershwin “Who Cares?” 27 4 --- --- --- Beethoven Joy Theme from Symphony No. 9, IV 30 5 --- --- --- Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, II (excerpt) 30 6 --- --- --- Schubert String Quartet in A Minor, I (excerpt) 34, 38 7 --- --- --- Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), III (excerpt) 34 8 --- Tchaikovsky “Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy” from The Nutcracker 38 9 --- --- --- Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra 18, 41 10–15 --- --- --- Anonymous Plainchant antiphon, “In paradisum” 47 --- 1:1 1 1 Hildegard of Bingen Plainchant sequence, “Columba aspexit” 48 --- 1:2 2 --- Bernart de Ventadorn Troubadour song, “La dousa votz” 50 --- 1:3 3 --- Pérotin Organum, “Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia” 53 --- 1:4 4 --- Anonymous Round, “Sumer Is Icumen In” 54 --- 1:5 5 --- Machaut Chanson, “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” (excerpt) 55 --- 1:6 6 --- Global Perspectives Qur’anic recitation, “Ya Sin” 57 --- 1:28 101 49 Global Perspectives Hawai’ian chant, mele pule 58 --- 1:29 102 --- Global Perspectives Navajo song, “K´adnikini´ya´” 59 --- 1:30 103 50 Dufay Harmonized hymn, “Ave maris stella” 61 --- 1:7 7 --- Josquin Pange lingua Mass, Kyrie 66 --- 1:8 8 2 Josquin Pange lingua Mass, from the Gloria 67 --- 1:9 9 --- Josquin Chanson, “Mille regrets” 68 --- 1:10 10 --- Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass, from the Gloria 70 --- 1:11 11 --- Weelkes Madrigal, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending” 73 --- 1:12 12 --- Anonymous Galliard, “Daphne” 75 --- 1:13 13 --- Anonymous “Kemp’s Jig” 76 --- 1:14 14 --- Global Perspectives Inca processional music, “Hanaq pachap kusikuynin” 78 --- 1:31 104 --- Gabrieli Motet, “O magnum mysterium” 81 --- 1:15 15 --- Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea, Act I, “Tornerai?” and “Speranza, tu mi vai” 86 --- 1:16–17 16–17 --- Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Act III, “Thy hand, Belinda” and “When I am laid” 88 --- 1:18 18 3 Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Act III, “With drooping wings” 88 --- 1:19 19 --- Frescobaldi Canzona, Balletto, and Corrente 92 --- 1:20–22 20–22 --- Global Perspectives Gambian minstrel song, “Laminba” 94 --- 1:32 105 --- Global Perspectives Pygmy polyphony, Elephant-hunt song 95 --- 1:33 106 --- Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G, La stravaganza, Op. 4, No. 12, I 117 --- 1:23 23 4 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G, II 120 --- 1:24 24 5 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, Spring, Op. 8, No. 1, I 122 --- 1:25 25 6 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, I 123 --- 2:1–5 26 7 Bach Prelude in C Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I 129 --- 1:26 27 8 Bach Fugue in C Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I 129 --- 1:27 28 9 Handel Minuet from the Royal Fireworks Music 133 --- 2:6 29 --- Bach Gigue from Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor 134 --- 2:7 30 10 Handel Julius Caesar, “La giustizia” 138 --- 2:8 31 --- Handel Messiah, “There were shepherds” and “Glory to God” 142 --- 2:9 32 11 Handel Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus 142 --- 2:10 33 12 Bach Cantata No. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden” (stanzas 3, 4, and 7) 147 --- 2:11–13 34–36 --- Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, I 165 --- 2:14–19 37 13 Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G (“The Surprise”), II 171 --- 2:20–25 38 14 Haydn Symphony No. 99 in E-flat, III 175 --- 2:26–28 39 15 Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D (“The Clock”), IV 178 --- 2:29–33 40 16 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488, I 184 --- 2:34–38 41 --- Mozart Don Giovanni, from Act I, scene iii, “Ho capito,” “Alfin siam liberati,”

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Global Perspectives Balinese gamelan, Bopong 201 --- 3:35 108 --- Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, I 209 --- 3:1–9 45 17 Beethoven Symphony No. 5, II 209 --- 3:10–11 46 18 Beethoven Symphony No. 5, III 209 --- 3:12–13 47 19 Beethoven Symphony No. 5, IV 209 --- 3:14–15 48 20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, I 216 --- 2:42–45 49 --- Schubert “Erlkönig” 234 --- 3:16 50 21 R. Schumann Dichterliebe, “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai” 238 --- 3:17 51 22 R. Schumann Dichterliebe, “Die alten, bösen Lieder” 238 --- 3:18 52 --- C. Schumann “Der Mond kommt still gegangen” 241 --- 3:19 53 23 Schubert Moment Musical No. 2 in A-flat 243 --- 3:20–23 54 --- R. Schumann Carnaval, “Eusebius” 244 --- 3:24 55 24 R. Schumann Carnaval, “Florestan” 244 --- 3:25 56 25 Chopin Nocturne in F-sharp, Op. 15, No. 2 245 --- 3:26 57 26 Berlioz Fantastic Symphony, V 249 --- 3:27–33 58 27 Verdi Rigoletto, from Act III, “La donna è mobile” and “Bella figlia

dell’amore” 259 --- 4:1–6 59–60 28–29

Wagner The Valkyrie, Act I, scene i 269 --- 4:7–12 61 30 Puccini Madame Butterfly, from Act II, “Un bel dì” 275 --- 4:13 62 31 Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet 279 --- 4:14–25 63 32 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, “Promenade [1]” 284 --- 4:26 64 33 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, “Gnomus” 284 --- 4:27 65 --- Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, “Promenade [2]” 284 --- 4:28 66 --- Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, “The Great Gate at Kiev” 284 --- 4:29 67 34 Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77, III 289 --- 4:30-35 68 --- Mahler Symphony No. 1, III (Funeral March) 293 --- 4:36–43 69 35 Global Perspectives Beijing opera, The Prince Who Changed into a Cat 299 --- 4:44 109 --- Debussy Clouds, from Three Nocturnes 313 --- 5:1–6 70 36 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, from Part I, “The Adoration of the Earth” 317 --- 5:7–13 71 37 Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire, No. 8, “Night” 321 --- 5:14 72 --- Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire, No. 18, “The Moonfleck” 321 --- 5:15 73 38 Berg Wozzeck, Act III, scenes iii and iv 324 --- 5:16–20 74–75 --- Ives Second Orchestral Set, II, “The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s

Outdoor Meeting” 331 --- 5:21–22 76 39

Ravel Piano Concerto in G, I 337 --- 5:23–27 77 --- Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, II 341 --- 5:28–34 78 --- Crawford Prelude for Piano No. 6 (Andante Mystico) 345 --- 5:35 79 --- Still Afro-American Symphony, IV 348 --- 5:36–40 80 --- Copland Appalachian Spring, Sections 1, 2, and 5 350 --- 5:41–43 81–83 40–42 Copland Appalachian Spring, Section 6 350 --- 5:44 84 --- Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky Cantata, “The Battle on Ice” (excerpts) 354 --- 6:1–2 85–86 --- Webern Five Orchestral Pieces, IV 362 --- 6:3 87 43 Varèse Poème électronique (excerpt) 364 --- 6:4 88 --- Ligeti Lux aeterna 366 --- 6:5–8 89 --- Reich Music for 18 Musicians (excerpt) 369 --- 6:9–10 90–91 44–45 Crumb Voices from a Forgotten World (American Songbook, Volume 5),

“ The House of the Rising Sun” and “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum!” 374 --- 6:11–12 92–93 ---

León Indígena 375 --- 6:13–16 94 --- Thomas “If You Ever Been Down” Blues 387 --- 6:17 95 46 Ellington/ Tizol “Conga Brava” 391 --- 6:18 96 47 Parker and Davis “Out of Nowhere” 395 --- 6:19 97 48 Davis Bitches Brew (excerpt) 396 --- 6:20 98 --- Global Perspectives Yoruba drumming, “Ako” 397 --- 6:23 110 51 Bernstein West Side Story, Cha-cha, meeting scene, and “Cool” 399 --- 6:21–22 99–100 --- Global Perspectives South African popular song, “Anoku Gonda” 411 --- 6:24 111 ---

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b e d f o r d / s t . m a r t i n ’s Boston ◆ New York

LISTEN

joseph kerman University of California, Berkeley

gary tomlinson Yale University

with

vivian kerman

Eighth E d i t i o n

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Acknowledgments

Text acknowledgments and copyrights appear on the same page as the text and art selections they cover; these acknowledgments and copyrights constitute an extension of the copyright page. It is a violation of the law to reproduce these selections by any means whatsoever without the written permission of the copyright holder.

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TO THE MEMORY OF

Joseph and Vivian Kerman

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Joseph Kerman was a leading musicologist, music critic, and music educator from the 1950s into the 2000s. He conceived Listen together with his wife, Vivian Kerman, and was its original author. From his first book, Opera as Drama (1956), to his last, Opera and the Morbidity of Music (2008), including studies of Bach, Beethoven, William Byrd, concertos, and more, Kerman reshaped our understanding and appreciation of Western classical music. He was long a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served two terms as chair of the Music Department.

Gary Tomlinson did the same at the University of Pennsylvania before he moved to Yale University in 2011, where he is now the John Hay Whitney Professor and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center. A former MacArthur Fellow, he has authored books on Claudio Monteverdi, Renaissance musical culture, opera, and the singing rituals of the Aztecs and Incas. His latest book, A Million Years of Music, describes the evolutionary emergence of music.

Teaching was the heart and soul of Kerman’s musical career, and it remains such in Tomlinson’s. Between them, their wide-ranging course offerings have encompassed harmony and ear-training, opera, world music, popular music, interdisciplinary studies, seminars in music history, criticism, anthropology, and — many times over — Introduction to Music for non-majors.

Tomlinson and Kerman worked together on five editions of Listen. Joseph Kerman died early in 2014, just shy of his ninetieth birthday, as this edition went to press.

About the Authors

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P R E F A C E : T O T H E I N S T R U C T O R xxiii

I N T R O D U C T I O N : T O T H E S T U D E N T xxx

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I Fundamentals 2 1 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo 4

2 Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color 10 3 Scales and Melody 22 4 Harmony, Texture, Tonality, and Mode 28 5 Musical Form and Musical Style 35

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II Early Music: An Overview 42 6 The Middle Ages 44

7 The Renaissance 60 8 The Early Baroque Period 79

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III the Eighteenth Century 96 9 P R E L U D E The Late Baroque Period 98

10 Baroque Instrumental Music 114 11 Baroque Vocal Music 135 12 P R E L U D E Music and the Enlightenment 150 13 The Symphony 161 14 Other Classical Genres 181

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IV the nineteenth Century 202 15 Beethoven 204 16 P R E L U D E Music after Beethoven: Romanticism 218 17 The Early Romantics 233 18 Romantic Opera 256 19 The Late Romantics 277

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V the twentieth Century and Beyond 300 20 P R E L U D E Music and Modernism 302 21 Early Modernism 312 22 Modernism between the Wars 335 23 The Late Twentieth Century 358 24 Music in America: Jazz and Beyond 381

A P P E N D I x A Time Lines 414

A P P E N D I x B Musical Notation 419

G L O S S A R y O F M U S I C A L T E R M S 423

I N D E x 431

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Music for the Listening Exercises is on the Unit I CD bound into this book and in LaunchPad for Listen at macmillanhighered.com/listen8e.

Interactive versions of the Listening Charts can also be found in LaunchPad. See the inside back cover for details.

Listening Exercises 1 Rhythm, Meter, and Syncopation 7 2 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo 8 3 Pitch and Dynamics 11

4 The Orchestra in Action 18 5 Melody and Tune 27 6 Texture 30 7 Mode and Key 34 8 Musical Form 38

Listening Charts 1 Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra 41

2 Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, La stravaganza, first movement 118 3 Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, La stravaganza, second movement 121 4 Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in E, Spring, first movement 122 5 Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, first movement 125 6 Bach, Fugue 1 in C Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier 131 7 Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, first movement 167 8 Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G (“The Surprise”), second movement 172 9 Haydn, Symphony No. 99 in E-flat, third movement 176 10 Haydn, Symphony No. 101 in D (“The Clock”), fourth movement 179 11 Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, first movement 186 12 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, first movement 212 13 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, complete work 214 14 Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, first movement 216 15 Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony, fifth movement 254 16 Tchaikovsky, Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet 281 17 Brahms, Violin Concerto in D, third movement 290 18 Mahler, Symphony No. 1, third movement, Funeral March 295 19 Debussy, Clouds, from Three Nocturnes 315 20 Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, from Part I, “The Adoration of the Earth” 319 21 Ives, Second Orchestral Set, “The Rockstrewn Hills” 333 22 Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, first movement 338 23 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, second movement 343 24 Crawford, Prelude for Piano No. 6 345 25 Still, Afro-American Symphony, fourth movement 349 26 Prokofiev, “The Battle on Ice” from Alexander Nevsky Cantata 355 27 Ligeti, Lux aeterna 367 28 Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, opening 370 29 León, Indígena 376

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Rhythm, Meter, and tempo 4 1 | Rhythm 4

Beat and Accent 4

2 | Meter 5 Rhythm and Meter 6 Syncopation 7

LISTENING ExERCISE 1 Rhythm, Meter, and Syncopation 70

3 | Tempo 7 LISTENING ExERCISE 2 Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo 8

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 9

Pitch, Dynamics, and tone Color 10 1 | Pitch 10

2 | Dynamics 11 LISTENING ExERCISE 3 Pitch and Dynamics 11

3 | Tone Color 12 Musical Instruments 13

LISTENING ExERCISE 4 The Orchestra in Action 18

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 2 1

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P R E F A C E : T O T H E I N S T R U C T O R xxiii

I N T R O D U C T I O N : T O T H E S T U D E N T xxx Classical Music — and Other Kinds xxxi

Classical Music and History xxxii

Listening xxxii

How to Use This Book xxxiv

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Scales and Melody 22 1 | Scales 22

The Octave 22 The Diatonic Scale 23 The Chromatic Scale 23 Half Steps and Whole Steps 24

2 | Melody 24 Tunes 25 Motives and Themes 25

Characteristics of Tunes 26

LISTENING ExERCISE 5 Melody and Tune 27

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 2 7

Harmony, texture, tonality, and Mode 28 1 | Harmony 28

Consonance and Dissonance 28

2 | Texture 29 Monophony 29 Homophony and Polyphony 29 Imitation 29

LISTENING ExERCISE 6 Texture 30

3 | Tonality and Mode 30 Tonality 31 Major and Minor Modes 31 Keys 32 Listening for the Major and Minor Modes 32 Listening for Keys and Modulation 33

LISTENING ExERCISE 7 Mode and Key 34

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 3 4

Musical Form and Musical Style 35 1 | Form in Music 35

Form and Feeling 35 Form and Forms 36 Musical Genres 37

LISTENING ExERCISE 8 Musical Form 38

2 | Musical Style 38 Musical Style and Lifestyle 39

Benjamin Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (1946) 39

LISTENING CHART 1 41

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 4 1

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Early Music: An Overview / 42 Chronology 43

the Middle Ages 44 1 | Music and the Church 44

Music and Church Services: Liturgy 44 Plainchant 45 Characteristics of Plainchant 46 Gregorian Recitation and Gregorian Melody 47

Anonymous (c. ninth century), Plainchant antiphon, “In paradisum” 47

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Plainchant sequence, “Columba aspexit” 48

2 | Music at Court 49 Troubadour and Trouvère Songs 49

Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1135–1194), Troubadour song, “La dousa votz” 50 The Estampie 51

How Did early Music sound? 51

3 | The Evolution of Polyphony 52 Organum 52

Pérotin (c. 1200), organum, “Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia” 53

4 | Later Medieval Polyphony 54 Anonymous (late thirteenth century), Round, “sumer Is Icumen In” 54 Ars Nova 55

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377), Chanson, “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” 55

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 5 6

Global Perspectives | Sacred Chant 57

the Renaissance 60 1 | New Attitudes 60

Early Homophony 61

Guillaume Dufay (c. 1400–1474), Harmonized hymn, “Ave maris stella” 61 The Mass 63

2 | The High Renaissance Style 64 Imitation 64 Homophony 64 Other Characteristics 65

Josquin Desprez, Pange lingua Mass (c. 1510) 65

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3 | Music as Expression 67 Josquin Desprez, Chanson, “Mille regrets” 68

4 | Late Renaissance Music 69 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass (1557) 70 The Motet 72 The Italian Madrigal 72 The English Madrigal 72

Thomas Weelkes, Madrigal, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending” (1601) 73

5 | Instrumental Music: Early Developments 74 Renaissance Dances 74

Anonymous (sixteenth century), Galliard, “Daphne” 75

Anonymous (sixteenth century), “Kemp’s Jig” 76

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 7 6

Global Perspectives | Music and Early European Colonialism 77

the Early Baroque Period 79 1 | From Renaissance to Baroque 79

Music in Venice 79 Extravagance and Control 81

Giovanni Gabrieli, Motet, “o magnum mysterium” (c. 1610) 81

2 | Style Features of Early Baroque Music 82 Rhythm and Meter 82 Texture: Basso Continuo 82 Functional Harmony 83

3 | Opera 83 Recitative and Aria 84 Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) 85

singing Italian 85

Claudio Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea (1642) 86

Henry Purcell (1659–1695) 88

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (1689) 88

4 | The Rise of Instrumental Music 90 Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) 91

Girolamo Frescobaldi, Canzona, Balletto, and Corrente (1627–1637) 92

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 9 3

Global Perspectives | African Ostinato Forms 94

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the Eighteenth Century / 96 Chronology 97

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the Late Baroque Period 98 1 | Absolutism and the Age of Science 98

Art and Absolutism 99 The Music of Absolutism 101 Art and Theatricality 102 Science and the Arts 102 Science and Music 103

2 | Musical Life in the Early Eighteenth Century 105

3 | Style Features of Late Baroque Music 107 Rhythm 107 Dynamics 107 Tone Color 108 The Baroque Orchestra 108 Melody 108 Ornamentation 109 Texture 110 The Continuo 110 Musical Form 111

4 | The Emotional World of Baroque Music 112 G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 1 1 3

Baroque instrumental Music 114 1 | Concerto and Concerto Grosso 115

Movements 116 Ritornello Form 116

Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, La stravaganza, op. 4, no. 12 (1712–1713) 117

LISTENING CHART 2 118

Baroque Variation Form: The Ground Bass 118

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) 119

Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in G, second movement 120

LISTENING CHART 3 121

Vivaldi’s Greatest Hits 121

Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in e, Spring, op. 8, no. 1 (before 1725) 122

LISTENING CHART 4 122

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Johann sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, and orchestra (before 1721) 123

LISTENING CHART 5 125

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) 127

2 | Fugue 126 Fugal Exposition 128 Fugal Devices 129

Johann sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (1722) 129

LISTENING CHART 6 131

Glenn Gould (1932–1982) 131

3 | Baroque Dances 132 The Dance Suite 132 Baroque Dance Form 132

George Frideric Handel, Minuet from the Royal Fireworks Music (1749) 133

Johann sebastian Bach, Gigue from Cello suite no. 2 in D Minor (c. 1720) 134

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 1 3 4

Baroque Vocal Music 135 1 | Opera 135

Italian Opera Seria 137 Recitative 137

The Castrato 137 Aria 138

George Frideric Handel, Julius Caesar (1724) 138

2 | Oratorio 140 George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) 141

George Frideric Handel, Messiah (1742) 142

Women in Music 146

3 | The Church Cantata 145 The Lutheran Chorale 145

Johann sebastian Bach, Cantata no. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden” (1707) 147

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Music and the Enlightenment 150 1 | The Enlightenment and Music 150

“The Pursuit of Happiness” 152 Art and Entertainment 153 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Opera 153 The Novel 154

2 | The Rise of Concerts 154

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3 | Style Features of Classical Music 155 Rhythm 155 Dynamics 156 Tone Color: The Classical Orchestra 156 Melody: Tunes 158 Texture: Homophony 158 Classical Counterpoint 159

4 | Form in Classical Music 159 Repetitions and Cadences 159 Classical Forms 160

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the Symphony 161 1 | The Movements of the Symphony 161

2 | Sonata Form 162 Exposition (A) 163 Development (B) 164 Recapitulation (A9) 164

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (1788) 165

LISTENING CHART 7 167

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) 168

3 | Classical Variation Form 169 Symphonies of Haydn 169

Franz Joseph Haydn, symphony no. 94 in G (“The surprise,” 1791) 171

LISTENING CHART 8 172

4 | Minuet Form (Classical Dance Form) 173 Baroque and Classical Dance Form 173

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) 174

Franz Joseph Haydn, symphony no. 99 in e-flat (1793) 175

LISTENING CHART 9 176

5 | Rondo Form 177 Franz Joseph Haydn, symphony no. 101 in D (“The Clock,” 1793–1794) 178

LISTENING CHART 10 179

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 1 8 0

Other Classical Genres 181 1 | The Sonata 181

2 | The Classical Concerto 183 Double-Exposition Form 183

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 23 in A, K. 488 (1786) 184

LISTENING CHART 11 186

3 | The String Quartet 187 Chamber Music 188

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4 | Opera Buffa 189 The Ensemble 189

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni (1787) 190

G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 1 9 5

Global Perspectives | Musical Form: Two Case Studies from Asia 196

the nineteenth Century / 202 Chronology 203

Beethoven 204 1 | Between Classicism and Romanticism 204

The French Revolution 205

2 | Beethoven and the Symphony 206 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) 207 The Scherzo 208

Ludwig van Beethoven, symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 (1808) 209

LISTENING CHART 12 212

LISTENING CHART 13 214

3 | Beethoven’s “Third Period” 215 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano sonata in e, op. 109 (1820) 216

LISTENING CHART 14 216

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Music after Beethoven: Romanticism 218 1 | Romanticism 218

The Cult of Individual Feeling 219 Romanticism and Revolt 220 Artistic Barriers 220 Music and the Supernatural 221 Music and the Other Arts 222

2 | Concert Life in the Nineteenth Century 224 The Artist and the Public 224

3 | Style Features of Romantic Music 225 Romantic Melody 226 Romantic Harmony 226 Rhythmic Freedom: Rubato 227

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The Expansion of Tone Color 227

4 | Program Music 228

5 | Form in Romantic Music 229 Miniature Compositions 229 Grandiose Compositions 230 The Principle of Thematic Unity 231

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the Early Romantics 233 1 | The Lied 233

Franz schubert, “erlkönig” (The erlking) (1815) 234

Franz Schubert (1797–1828) 237 The Song Cycle 237

Robert schumann, Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love) (1840) 238

Robert Schumann (1810–1856) 241

Clara schumann, “Der Mond kommt still gegangen” (The moon has risen softly) (1843) 241

Clara Wieck (Clara Schumann) (1819–1896) 242

2 | The Character Piece for Piano 243 Franz schubert, Moment Musical no. 2 in A-flat (1827?) 243

Robert schumann, Carnaval (1833–1835) 244

Frédéric Chopin, nocturne in F-sharp, op. 15, no. 2 (1831) 245

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) 246

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) 247

3 | Early Romantic Program Music 247 The Concert Overture: Felix Mendelssohn 248

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) 248

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847) 248 The Program Symphony: Hector Berlioz 249

Hector Berlioz, Fantastic symphony: episodes in the Life of an Artist (1830) 249

LISTENING CHART 15 254

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) 251

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Romantic Opera 256 1 | Verdi and Italian Opera 257

Recitative and Aria: The Role of the Orchestra 257

Early Romantic Opera 258

Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (1851) 259

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) 261

2 | Wagner and Music Drama 264 Richard Wagner (1813–1883) 265

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Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde (1859) 267 Leitmotivs 268 The Nibelung’s Ring (1848–1874) 268

Richard Wagner, The Valkyrie (1851–1856) 269

3 | Late Romantic Opera 274 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) 274

Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly (1904) 275

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the Late Romantics 277 Romanticism and Realism 277

1 | Late Romantic Program Music 279 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet (1869, revised 1880) 279

LISTENING CHART 16 281

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) 280

2 | Nationalism 282 Exoticism 283 The Russian Kuchka 284

Modest Musorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) 284

Modest Musorgsky (1839–1881) 286

Other Nationalists 287

3 | Responses to Romanticism 286 The Renewal of Classicism: Brahms 287

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) 288

Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 (1878) 289

LISTENING CHART 17 290 Romantic Nostalgia: Mahler 291

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) 292

Gustav Mahler, symphony no. 1 (1888) 293

LISTENING CHART 18 295

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Global Perspectives | Musical Drama Worldwide 297

the twentieth Century and Beyond / 300 Chronology 301

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Music and Modernism 302 1 | Varieties of Modernism 302

2 | Progress and Uncertainty 303

3 | The Response of Modernism 304

4 | Literature and Art before World War I 305 Impressionists and Symbolists 306 Expressionists and Fauves 308

5 | Modernist Music before World War I 308 Experiment and Transformation: Melody 309 New Horizons, New Scales 310 “The Emancipation of Dissonance” 310

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Early Modernism 312 1 | Debussy and Impressionism 313

Claude Debussy, Clouds, from Three nocturnes (1899) 313

LISTENING CHART 19 315

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 316

2 | Stravinsky: The Primacy of Rhythm 315 Igor stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Part I, “The Adoration of the earth” (1913) 317

LISTENING CHART 20 319

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) 320

3 | Expressionism 320 Arnold schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot) (1912) 321

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) 324

Alban Berg, Wozzeck (1923) 324

schoenberg and serialism 327

4 | The First American Modernist: Ives 330 Charles Ives (1874–1954) 331

Charles Ives, second orchestral set, second movement, “The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s outdoor Meeting” (1909) 331

LISTENING CHART 21 333

Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question (1906) 333

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Modernism between the Wars 335 1 | Mixing Classical Form and Jazz: Maurice Ravel 337

Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G (1931) 337

LISTENING CHART 22 338

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Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) 339

2 | Folk Music, Nationalism, and Modernism: Béla Bartók 340 Béla Bartók (1881–1945) 340

Béla Bartók, Music for strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936) 341

LISTENING CHART 23 343

3 | Varieties of American Modernism 344 Ruth Crawford 345

Ruth Crawford, Prelude for Piano no. 6 (Andante Mystico; 1928) 345

LISTENING CHART 24 345

Ruth Crawford (1901–1953) 346

William Grant Still 346

William Grant Still (1895–1978) 347

William Grant still, Afro-American symphony (1930) 348

LISTENING CHART 25 349

Aaron Copland 349

Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring (1945) 350

Aaron Copland (1900–1990) 352

4 | The Rise of Film Music 352 Composers for Film 353

sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Cantata (1938) 354

LISTENING CHART 26 355

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) 355

Music and Totalitarianism 356

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the Late twentieth Century 358 1 | The Postwar Avant-Garde 358

New Sound Materials 360 Electronic Music 360 On the Boundaries of Time 361

Anton Webern, Five orchestral Pieces (1913) 362

Chance Music 362

2 | The New Generation 363 Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) 363

edgard Varèse, Poème électronique (1958) 364

György Ligeti (1923–2006) 365

György Ligeti, Lux aeterna (1966) 366

LISTENING CHART 27 367

John Cage (1912–1992) 367

John Cage, 4’ 33’’ (1952) 367

3 | Music at the End of the Millennium 368 Steve Reich (b. 1936) and Minimalism 369

steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (1974–1976) 369

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LISTENING CHART 28 370

New Expressionism and Connecting to the Past 372 George Crumb (b. 1929) 372

George Crumb, Voices from a Forgotten World (American Songbook, Volume 5) (2006) 374

Tania León (b. 1943) 375

Tania León, Indígena (1991) 375

LISTENING CHART 29 376

John Adams (b. 1947) 377

John Adams, Doctor Atomic (2005) 377

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Music in America: Jazz and Beyond 381 1 | Early American Music: An Overview 381

The Cultivated Tradition 382 Music in the Vernacular 384 African American Music 385

2 | Jazz: The First Fifty Years 386 Ragtime: Scott Joplin (1868–1917) 386 The Blues 387

sippie Wallace, “If You ever Been Down” Blues (1927) (Composed by G. W. Thomas) 387

New Orleans Jazz 388

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) 390

Big-Band Jazz: Swing 390

Duke ellington, “Conga Brava” (1940) 391

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) 392

Popular Song 393

3 | Later Jazz 393 Bebop 393

Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, “out of nowhere” (1948) 395

Jazz after Bebop 395

Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (1969) 396

Global Perspectives | African Drumming 397

4 | The American Musical 398 Musical Comedy 398 The Musical after 1940 399

Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story (1957) 399

The Later Musical 402

5 | Rock 402 Early Rock ’n’ Roll 403 The 1960s: Rock Comes of Age 404 Motown, Soul, and Funk 404 The British Invasion 405 American Counteroffensives 406

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After the 1960s 407 Trends 1980–2000: Punk, Rap, and Post-Rock 408

Global Perspectives | Global Music 410

6 | Conclusion 413 G O A L S F O R R E V I E W 4 1 3

time Lines 414

Musical notation 419

G L O S S A R y O F M U S I C A L T E R M S 423

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When Joseph and Vivian Kerman launched the first edition of Listen back in 1972, they no doubt hoped — but could not have expected — that it would still be reaching students over forty years later. The staying power of the book is a tribute to many things and many people, but above all it commemorates their initial vision and their continued efforts across several decades in revising and improving it. Joe himself came to regard Listen as far and away the most important contribution of his career, a judgment that sets a high bar, given Opera as Drama, The Beethoven Quartets, Contemplating Music, and the rest. But who would gainsay that judgment, in the light of the hundreds of thou- sands of undergraduates whose lives have been touched and even transformed in courses employing Listen?

The Kermans’ vision was at first almost unique: to focus the attention of non-major undergraduates on close, analytic listening to great music at the same time as they came to understand its place in a historical chronology of styles and in a broader story of Western culture. Listen fulfills this vision in a fashion still unsurpassed, and we continue to revise and improve the book in ways that respond to the changing landscape of teaching introductory courses to the Western musical tradition.

New to This Edition The changes in Listen, Eighth Edition, answer to the desires, viewpoints, and indeed criticisms we have solicited from users and non-users alike. Particularly important have been users’ views on the teaching effectiveness of individual works. Of course we have retained the basic elements that have always distin- guished Listen: the stimulating prose, the high-quality recordings, the unmatched Listening Charts, the clear laying-out of musical basics in Unit I, and the broad context outlined in Prelude chapters for each new historical phase. To these we have added new features, new repertory, and a clean, updated new design.

New Features Each historical unit begins with an arresting two-page spread designed to ori- ent the student quickly and effectively. On the left is a very short description of the materials introduced in the unit, on the right a time line of the works students will encounter, tabulating composers’ names, titles of works, and chronological order of composition. In between is an artwork characteristic of the period at hand, with a caption explaining what makes it so.

Each chapter ends with a new bullet list of Goals for Review: checklists of the listening skills and key concepts students should particularly attend to as they study.

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New Repertory As in every new edition, we have sought to improve the coverage of the musi- cal repertories at the heart of our enterprise. We have added a movement from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, always a favorite with students and teachers alike. The coverage of the Classical symphony now exemplifies variations, rondo, and minuet forms with movements from three of Haydn’s London symphonies. A Beethoven piano sonata movement shows features of his late style.

For the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the rethinking has been extensive. For the early part of the period, the coverage of modernism is more inclusive and varied, with the addition of new works by Ruth Crawford and William Grant Still. For the most recent years, Listen adds new selections by Tania León, George Crumb, and John Adams.

All told, the new works are as follows:

• Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in E, La Primavera (Spring), Op. 8, No. 1, I (Allegro) • Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G (“The Surprise”), II (Andante) • Haydn, Symphony No. 99 in E-flat, III (Allegretto) • Haydn, Symphony No. 101 in D (“The Clock”), IV (Finale. Vivace) • Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, I (Vivace) • Ruth Crawford, Prelude for Piano No. 6 (Andante Mystico) • William Grant Still, Afro-American Symphony, IV (Lento, con risoluzione) • George Crumb, “The House of the Rising Sun” and “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum!”

from Voices from a Forgotten World (American Songbook, Volume 5)

• Tania Léon, Indígena • John Adams, Doctor Atomic

New Design The publishers of Listen, no less than the authors, have always worked hard to make this textbook attractive to look at; we all take pride in the book’s design and appearance. But the real point of a good design is to make it both easy and inviting to find your way around in a book. Of necessity there is a lot of diverse material here, lots of bits and pieces — the main text, boxes and charts of dif- ferent kinds, music, marginalia. The new design introduced in this edition enhances the flow of the text and emphasizes important information to make student reading a more effective learning experience. In general, the design gives a clean, updated “look.”

Students these days, perhaps more than ever before, are used to getting information quickly and clearly. Listen, Eighth Edition makes this possible without sacrificing the nuance of subject matter and presentation for which the book has always been praised.

New Formats Listen has always moved forward with new technological developments that are essential to the teaching of music appreciation. For this edition, we offer the full and brief sets of the Listen recordings in a convenient downloadable format; the full set is also available on six high-quality CDs. Streaming record- ings and an interactive e-book are available in LaunchPad, a new, fully cus- tomizable course space. See page xxvii for details.

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Distinctive Features of Listen In the midst of many changes, what have not changed are our basic coverage and organization, which have proved solid over many editions. For new users, we draw attention to the following strong features that we believe set Listen apart.

Fundamentals The Fundamentals unit develops basic musical concepts in a logical, orderly sequence. It begins with rhythm and meter and continues with pitch, dynamics, and tone color, pausing to consider the musical instruments students will be listening to. Next comes melody, and only then are the more challenging issues of harmony, tonality, and modality raised. The introduc- tion to music notation, not necessary for this unit or the book as a whole, is found in an appendix. This presentation, we feel, allows instructors to pick and choose issues they want to highlight more easily without losing the logic of the presentation.

Eight Listening Exercises that work with music on the Unit I CD (bound into the back of the book) illustrate rhythm, melody, texture, modality, and so on, and culminate in the encyclopedic Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten. We show students how to listen to this work as an informal summary of fundamentals at the end of the unit.

Flexible Coverage The main emphasis of Listen is on the common-practice repertory, with a care- ful selection of more modern material and a generous unit on pre-eighteenth- century music. After Unit I, the historical scheme goes from “early music” — in effect, everything before Bach and Handel, when the standard repertory begins — to the three great periods of Western classical music: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the twentieth century to the present. Units III, IV, and V, each containing several chapters, cover these periods. Unit II, “Early Music: An Overview,” is independent of the rest of the text; nothing later in the book depends on having studied it, so if your course plan begins with Bach and Handel in Unit III, students will not need to skip back for explanations of continuo texture, recitative, fugue, and so on.

Cultural Background The Baroque and Classical eras and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are introduced by what we call “Prelude” chapters. Each summarizes fea- tures of the culture of the time, emphasizing those that stand in close rela- tion to music. The Prelude chapters also contain concise accounts of the musical styles of the eras, so that these chapters furnish background of two kinds — cultural and stylistic — for listening to specific pieces of music in the chapters that follow.

Biography boxes segregate material on the lives of the major composers from discussions of their music — again, making the book easier to read and easier to work from. The boxes include portraits, concise lists of works that can serve for study or reference, and, under the heading “Encore,” suggestions for further listening. Time lines in Appendix A locate composers at a glance in relation to other important historical figures and events.

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Non-Western Music The seven Global Perspectives segments of Listen are positioned so as to elaborate on the European and American topics discussed around them. The Global Perspectives segment on sacred chant, for example, comes at the end of the Middle Ages chapter, where Gregorian chant has been discussed; African ostinato forms are exemplified after the early Baroque chapter; and a brief look at complex instrumental forms in Japanese and Indonesian traditions follows the eighteenth-century unit, with its examination of sonata form and other formal types in the Classical symphony.

We believe these materials broaden the coverage of Listen in a meaning- ful way, but we certainly do not offer them as a token survey of world musics. If they are a token of anything, it is the authors’ belief that music making worldwide shows certain common tendencies in which the European classical tradition has shared.

Listening Charts One of the strongest features of Listen, instructors have always told us, is the format for Listening Charts. The charts for instrumental works all fit onto one page, visible at a glance, with concise descriptions and identifications. Off at the side, brief music tags can easily be consulted by those who read music — and just as easily ignored by those who don’t. To see how these charts work, turn to the section “How to Use This Book” on pages xxxiv–xxxvii. Inter- active versions of the Listening Charts can be found in LaunchPad for Listen at macmillanhighered.com/listen8e. Guides for songs, operas, and other vocal works offer texts in original languages and parallel translations; they are set in “Listen” boxes throughout the book.

In the end, this text owes its success less to “features” than to two basic attributes, which the authors have been grateful to hear about many times from many instructors over the history of the book. Listen is distinctive in its writing style and, related to that, in the sense it conveys of personal involve- ment with the music that is treated. The tone is lively and alert, authoritative but not stiff and not without humor. We sound (because we are) engaged with music and we work to engage the student.

The excitement and joy that the experience of music can provide — this, more than historical or analytical data about music — is what most instruc- tors want to pass on to their students. Our efforts are rewarded when students tell us years later that music they studied has become a part of their lives. This is what teaching is about (which is why technology will never replace live instructors), and this is what we have always tried to do in Listen.

Acknowledgments We express our gratitude to the many practiced “music appreesh” instructors who have reviewed this book and its supplements and given us the benefit of their advice for this revision. Their criticisms and suggestions have signifi- cantly improved the text, as have the market surveys in which an even larger number of instructors generously participated. In addition to users of previous editions who over the years have given us suggestions, we wish to thank

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Lois Ash, Delaware State University; Jeanne Belfy, Boise State University; Roxanne Classen, MacEwan University; Cathryn Clayton, University of Utah; Bruce Cook, Diablo Valley College; Lara Saville Dahl, Georgia State University; Chris Davis, North Greenville University; Melissa Derechailo, Wayne State Col- lege; Leanne Dodge, Columbia University; Jennifer Duerden, Brigham Young University–Hawaii; Tracey Ford, Joliet Junior College; Janine Gaboury, Michi- gan State University; Gary Gackstatter, St. Louis Community College–Mera- mec; Scott Gleason, Fordham University; John Glennon, Ivy Tech Community College; David Gramit, University of Alberta; Rolf Groesbeck, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Ross Hagen, Utah Valley University; Barry Hause, East Central Community College; Sharon A. Hickox, University of Nevada, Reno; Todd Jones, University of Kentucky; Karl Kolbeck, Wayne State College; Julianne Lindberg, University of Nevada, Reno; Robin Liston, Baker Univer- sity; John McClusky, University of Kentucky; Ginny Nixon, Concordia Univer- sity; Matthew Parker, Trident Technical College; Todd Quinlan, Blinn College; Katie Roberts, Brigham Young University; Catherine Roche-Wallace, Univer- sity of Louisiana, Lafayette; Ruth Spencer, City College of New York; George Sprengelmeyer, Quinnipiac University; Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, College of Charleston; and Steven Voigt, James Madison University.

The production of a major textbook is a complex, year-long process drawing on professionals from many areas. The main contributors to Listen are listed on the back of the title page, and we are truly grateful to all of them. Our first, special thanks go to the team that has worked in the trenches with the authors to turn this book and its ancillaries into realities and make them better in countless ways. Senior Editor Caroline Thompson, Senior Production Editor Deborah Baker, Art Director Anna Palchik, Designer Marsha Cohen, Editorial Assistant Brenna Cleeland, and picture and permissions consultants Martha Friedman, Kalina Ingham, Susan Doheny, and Margaret Gorenstein — the proj- ect would have been unmanageable without the expertise and hard work of all of them. Carrie Thompson’s efforts in particular often assumed larger-than-life, even operatic proportions. Tom Laskey of Sony Music, responsible for record- ings acquisitions and production, kept his head through the conniptions of the recording industry (even while authors around him did not). The cover was designed by Billy Boardman. Karen Henry, Editorial Director for English and Music, is a longtime supporter of and coworker on Listen; Edwin Hill, Vice President, Editorial, is a new and welcome supporter of the project.

We are delighted that Professor Mark Harbold has again undertaken the Instructor’s Resource Manual for the present edition, and we are grateful and fortunate indeed that Davitt Moroney agreed to perform a work specially for the CD set: He recorded the Frescobaldi Canzona, Balletto, and Corrente on the seventeenth-century Spanish organ by Greg Harrold at the University of California, Berkeley, in meantone tuning.

The high quality of Listen is a tribute to the expertise, dedication, tenacity, and artistry of all of these people. We are indebted to them all.

G. T. (for J. K. also)

Branford, CT, July 2014

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Resources for Listen, Eighth Edition Bedford/St. Martin’s offers resources and format choices that help you and your students get the most out of your book and course. To learn more about or to order any of the following products, contact your Macmillan sales representative, e-mail sales support (sales_support@bfwpub.com), or visit the Web site at macmillanhighered.com/catalog/listen.

LaunchPad for Listen, eighth edition: Where students Learn LaunchPad provides engaging content and new ways to enhance your course. Get an interactive e-book combined with unique, book-specific materials in a fully customizable course space; then assign and mix our resources with yours.

• The complete Listen recordings are included in LaunchPad in a streaming format, integrated with the e-book. LaunchPad makes all of the music for the course available in one place, so there’s no need to purchase discs or downloads. Music for the Listening Exercises in Unit I is included in addition to all the recordings from the 6-CD set.

• Interactive Listening Charts provide the book’s 29 Listening Charts in a multimedia format, making it even easier for students to listen as they read the brief explanatory notes. Students can play back main sections of the charts with a single mouse click in order to study and compare specific events in the music.

• Pre-built units—including chapter text, streaming music, listening quizzes, reading quizzes, and more—are easy to adapt and assign by adding your own materials and mixing them with our high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options.

• LaunchPad also provides access to a gradebook that provides a clear window on the performance of your whole class, individual students, and even individual assignments.

• A streamlined interface helps students focus on what’s due, and social commenting tools let them engage, make connections, and learn from each other. Use LaunchPad on its own or integrate it with your school’s learning management system so that your class is always on the same page.

To get the most out of your course, order LaunchPad for Listen packaged with the print book for a reasonable additional charge. (LaunchPad for Listen can also be purchased on its own.) An activation code is required.

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The Instructor’s Resource Manual, prepared by Mark Harbold of Elm- hurst College, is the most comprehensive teaching guide to accompany any music appreciation textbook. In addition to chapter overviews and suggested teaching objectives, the instructor’s manual includes detailed suggestions for lectures, demonstrations, class discussions, and further listening. The manual is provided as a PDF file.

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Music matters to us. It may not carry us through our moment-to-moment interactions with one another, the way language does, or frame our ideas in words. It may not carry us from one place to another, refrigerate and cook our food, or enable us to search the Internet, as our advanced technologies do. It may even be less important to our immediate comfort, as an old joke has it, than indoor plumbing. Yet it matters to us, and matters deeply.

Every reader of this book comes to it having grown up surrounded by music of one type or another — usually, these days, of many types. Most readers have counted musical experiences among the important formative moments of their lives. And in fact it is hard for us to think of major events without music: a ceremony, a parade, a holiday, a party. Music saturates human societies — all of them, without exception.

Perhaps you have wondered just why music matters so much. If so, you’re not alone. Philosophers, psychologists, musicologists, and many others have been asking the same question in a line stretching all the way back to Plato, 2,500 years ago, and probably farther than that. The answers are not easy to come by, but in general they involve the ways in which music seizes us, commands our attention, changes our outlook, arouses our emotions, even transforms us — in short, the ways music moves us.

Music in ceremony: The University of Maryland band marches in the presidential inauguration. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

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It is the basic premise of this book that these experiences can be deepened by careful study devoted to the music at hand. We can extend music’s transformative powers by thinking about how it is put together, how it relates to other music and other arts, and when and where it was made, and then, above all, by taking this knowledge and listening carefully again and again. We did not choose our title, after all, by accident: Listen!

Classical Music — and Other Kinds Listen cannot survey all types of music; to do so would require not one book but very many indeed. The particular tradition of music to which we devote our attention is what has come to be known as classical music; but this term, if it is unavoidable, is also vague and in need of some preliminary explanation.

Classical or classic is ordinarily used to describe something old and established, and valued on that account. Think of the classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, classic literature, classic movies, or classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s. Classical music, in the way we use the term, refers to a tradition extending over more than a thousand years, practiced mainly (until recently) in Europe, and cultivated especially by privileged levels of society. Sometimes this tradition goes under other names: Western music, music of the Western tradition, or even simply art music — though this should not be taken to imply that other kinds of music are not art.

The classical in classical music has come to contrast this tradition with another kind of music, popular music, especially the multiple branches of popular music that evolved across the twentieth century from African American roots. This development, which embraces everything from spirituals to jazz and the blues, from ragtime to hip-hop, and from Elvis and the Beatles to Beyoncé and the latest winner of The Voice, has been so important in recent decades that it has threatened to cast classical music completely into the shadows. It is not the central focus of Listen, but it is a major force in music, and we take stock of it in a chapter at the end of the book.

In the orchestra pit and onstage: rehearsal at the National Ballet of Canada. Mike Slaughter/Toronto Star/ Getty Images.

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We also take up other kinds of music for comparison. All through this book we make sidelong glances toward musical traditions from around the world, from outside the Western classical heritage: Chinese, Native American, African, and more. The Global Perspectives inserts in which these non-Western traditions are raised do not attempt to do justice to the great richness of these traditions. Instead, they aim to point up broad similarities between them and Western traditions — similarities of musical technique or of the social uses of music, or sometimes of both together.

Classical Music and History The classical tradition, as we said above, has extended over a thousand years. Across this long span of time, the tradition has evolved and been transformed many times over; but it has also endured. It has provided many, many generations of listeners with pleasure, joy, inspiration, and solace, and it can do the same for us.

It is also true, however, that the classical music most performed and listened to today comes from a period of European history shorter than a millennium. It stems especially from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the period from around 1700 to 1900, beginning with Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and concluding with Mahler, Debussy, and Stravinsky. This central historical period of classical music, together with its outgrowths across the twentieth century and into our own time, forms the main coverage of Listen. This coverage is a historical one in that it is arranged in chronological order, with careful attention paid to the sequence of musical styles and to the influence of each on successive ones.

At the same time, we do not ignore the earlier centuries of the millennium of classical music. These, from about 1000 c.e. up to 1700 c.e., have a unit of their own, which your instructor might or might not choose to emphasize. This so-called early music is also presented in historical sequence.

Throughout all this historical coverage, we have endeavored to choose the most moving, transformative, and enduring — to use those three words once more — individual works for you to study and listen to. Your listening will, we hope, be entertaining; but it will also be something deeper than entertainment. These musical works provide knowledge—or if not exactly knowledge, insight into the human experience as it extends over time. Music historians devote themselves not only to the appreciation of music from the past but also to an appreciation of the ways in which it captures experiences of past lives. It conveys these things in ways that are distinctly musical — different from the ways of a poem, a novel, a painting, or a statue.

Listening The different ways music captures experiences bring us back once more to listening. Listening to recordings is the crucial assignment necessary for all those who would make productive use of this book. It is not the only way to experience music, of course. We hope that you will never forget about the possibility of performing music, at whatever level you can manage: from singing in the shower or strumming a guitar in your room to playing in your college symphony, forming a garage band, or singing in your college musical. We hope also that you will take advantage of opportunities around you to

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hear live music. Recordings are not the same as live music. No matter how faithful a reproduction of sound they are, they lack the physical pleasure of performing and the immediacy and empathy struck up among performers or among performers and audience in live-music situations.

Since, however, the main experience of music on which this book relies is listening to recordings, it is worth a few words to describe how we think this should be undertaken. Often you just hear music rather than listening to it — hear it out of the corner of your ear, so to speak. The center of your attention is somewhere else: on the car ahead of you cutting in from the next lane, on the organic chemistry you’re studying while the music plays in the background, on the text message coming in from your friend, and so on. It’s necessary to turn this hearing into true listening, to make a listen- ing commitment to music, comparable in its way to the dedication of the composers and performers who create it. Background listening isn’t enough, for real listening requires recognizing specific events in the music as it goes by in time, holding them in your memory, and relating them to one another in your mind. Classical music requires full attention to yield its full rewards.

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How to use This Book To foster your appreciation of music, Listen contains a number of features to help focus your listening and further your understanding.

To help you listen closely to the music Listening Charts for instrumental music are an integral feature of this text. In essence, the Listening Charts are tables of the main musical events of the pieces they represent, with brief explanatory notes where needed. Repeated listening is useful. We suggest that you first listen to the music by itself, then read the discus- sion of the piece of music in the text, and then listen again while following along with the Listening Chart. Read again, listen again. Interactive versions of these charts can be found in LaunchPad for Listen (see page xxxvii).

Listening Exercises in Unit I function in the same way to help you practice listening for fundamental elements of music such as rhythm, melody, and form. Music for these exercises can be found on the Unit I CD at the back of the book as well as in LaunchPad for Listen.

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Rhythm, Meter, and Syncopation

For samples of duple, triple, and compound meters, and of syncopation, listen to the following music on the Unit I CD or in LaunchPad for Listen.

Duple meter Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag” Count ONE two | ONE two . . . etc., for about half a minute.

Duple meter Beethoven, “Joy Theme” from Symphony No. 9, IV Schubert, from String Quartet in A Minor, I

Count ONE two THREE four | ONE two THREE four . . . etc.

Triple meter

Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Count ONE two three | ONE two three . . . etc.

Compound meter Beethoven, from Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), III

Count ONE two three FOUR | ONE two three FOUR six . . . etc.

Syncopation In Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” listen to the piano left hand, with its steady ONE two | ONE two beat in duple meter, while the right hand cuts across it with syncopations in almost every e.

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16 Many terms we use for historical periods in the arts came into use only after the fact. Baroque, as a designation for a style period in music, was adopted from the field of art history by musicologists in the twentieth century. The term Romantic, instead, was used by the Romantics themselves. It first took hold in literature, and by the time the earliest Romantic

composers began their careers in the 1820s, their literary contemporaries were already excitedly talking about “Romantic” music.

This tells us two important things about music after the time of Beethoven. One is that, largely thanks to Beethoven, people had become highly aware of music as a major art. Music was treated with a new respect in cultivated circles; it was taken seriously in a way it never had been before.

The other is that it seemed quite natural for observers of the time to link up developments in music with parallel developments in literature. From Homer and Virgil to Shakespeare and Milton, literature had always been considered the most important and most convincing of the arts. The prestige and power of literature were now freely extended to music.

This fact is illustrated in a painting much admired at midcentury, showing a group of literary lions and lionesses listening reverently to Franz Liszt at the piano (see page 219). Their expressions tell us how profoundly the music moves them; their aesthetic experience is very different, clearly, from the casual enjoyment of eighteenth-century listeners pictured on page 133. The painting shows also how important Beethoven was in bringing about this change. Liszt gazes soulfully at Beethoven’s larger-than-life bust. Does it rest on the books stacked on the piano, or loom outside the window, gigantic, against the turbulent sky?

1 | Romanticism Romantic literature and literary theory flourished particularly in and around the first two decades of the nineteenth century. In England, this was a great age of poetry: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron. There was also a brilliant outpouring of German Romantic literature during the same period, though the names of its writers are less familiar in the English-speaking world: Tieck, Novalis, Kleist, Hölderlin, and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

For us, the word romantic refers to love; this usage dates from the nineteenth

Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

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The Cult of Individual Feeling Striving for a better, higher, ideal state of being was at the heart of the Romantic movement. Everyday life seemed dull and meaningless; it could be transcended only through the free exercise of individual will and passion. The rule of feeling, unconstrained by convention, religion, or social taboo (or anyone else’s feelings, often enough) — this became the highest good. Emotional expression became the highest artistic goal. “Bohemians,” as they were disparagingly called at the time, proclaimed romantic love, led irregular lives, and wore odd clothes. We have the Romantics to thank for this familiar image of the artist, still around today.

These attitudes may be laid at the door of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — the same Enlightenment philosopher who had spoken up in the mid-eighteenth century for “natural” human feelings, as opposed to the artificial constraints imposed by society (see page 153). Hailed as the philosophical father of the French Revolution, Rousseau provided the Romantics with the ideal of individual, as well as political, freedom and fulfillment. We have also seen Rousseau as a proponent of a “natural” music, and indeed his own music was still being played

The power of Romantic music: Liszt as the inspiration for novelists Alexandre Dumas, Victor

Countess d’Agoult (see page 247). In the back, opera composer Gioacchino Rossini embraces violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. Bettmann/CORBIS.

To help you understand the historical and cultural context Prelude chapters introduce you to the historical and cultural background of four important eras of music — the Baroque and Classical eras, the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century to the present. Each prelude chapter also describes the stylistic features of the music you will study.

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Due cose, e tosto:

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Una stanza e del vino.

(Son questi i suoi costumi.)

(Oh il bel zerbino!)

(Ah! dear father!)

Two things, and right now.

What?

A room and some wine.

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È sempre misero / C / Mal cauto il core!

Pur mai non sentesi / Felice appieno Chi su quel seno / Non liba amore. La donna è mobil’ . . .

Changing her words and thoughts, She’s a lovable, sweet sight, When she’s weeping or laughing, she’s lying.

Changing her words and thoughts!

Man’s always wretched who believes her; If you trust her, watch out for your heart! Yet he’ll never feel happy Who from that breast does not drink love!

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Chronologies at the beginning of each unit list the works you will study in the order in which they were composed and are accompanied by an overview of the relevant era.

Additional boxes introduce you to interesting topics related to the music you’re studying, such as events in music history, aspects of performance, or social and cultural trends.

Biography boxes throughout the book offer some personal background on each of the major composers you will study, as well as lists of additional works you might want to seek out for further listening.

Mahler’s early life was not happy. Born in Bohemia to an abusive father, he lost five of his brothers and sisters to diphtheria, and others ended their lives in suicide or mental illness. The family lived near a military barracks, and the many marches incorpo- rated into Mahler’s music — often distorted marches — have been traced to his childhood recol- lections of parade music.

After studying for a time at the Vienna Conserva- tory, Mahler began a rising career as a conductor. His uncompromising standards and his authoritarian attitude toward the musicians led to frequent disputes with the orchestra directors. What is more, Mahler was Jewish, and Vienna at that time was rife with anti-Semitism. Nonetheless, he was acknowledged as one of the great conductors of his day and also as a very effective musical administrator. After positions at Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, and elsewhere, he came to head such organizations as the Vienna Opera and the New York Philharmonic.

It was only in the summers that Mahler had time to compose, so it is not surprising that he produced fewer pieces (though they are very long pieces) than any other important composer. Ten symphonies, the last of them unfinished, and six song cycles for voice and orchestra are almost all he wrote. The song cycle The Song of

is often called Mahler’s greatest masterpiece.

Mahler’s wife was a famous Viennese beauty, Alma Schindler. By a tragic coincidence, shortly after he wrote his grim orchestral song cycle Songs on the Death of Children, his and Alma’s youngest daughter died of scarlet fever.

Beyond this tragedy, Mahler’s life was clouded by psychological turmoil, and he once consulted his famous Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud. His disputes with the New York Philharmonic directors, which discouraged him profoundly, may have contributed to his premature death.

Chief Works: Ten lengthy symphonies, several with chorus, of which the best known are the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth j Orchestral song cycles: The Song of the Earth, Songs of a Wayfarer, The Youth’s Magic Horn (for piano or orchestra), Songs on the Death of Children

Encore: After Symphony No. 1, listen to the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; Songs of a Wayfarer.

Biography

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

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HOW DID EARLY MUSIC SOUND? Because sound recording is only about a hundred years old, the hard truth is that we do not really know how the music of Beethoven sounded in 1800, or the music of Bach in 1700. We have the scores, and it may be that tradition, writings, anecdotes, and surviving instruments allow us to extrapolate from score to sound with some confidence. But what about early music — music from 1500, 1300, 1100?

Obsolete instruments have come down to us in an imperfect condition, and we can try to reconstruct them; but figuring out how they were actually played is much more speculative. As for singing, who can guess what a cathedral choir, to take just one example, sounded like in the Middle Ages? Since then, language itself has changed so much that it is hard enough to read a fourteenth- century poet such as Geoffrey Chaucer, let alone imagine how the words that he wrote were pronounced — or sung.

Another set of problems involves the way early music was written down. Its composers never indicated the tempo and rarely specified the instrumental or vocal forces that they anticipated for their music. With vocal pieces, they did not say whether one singer or a whole choir was to sing. It has taken generations of patient research and experiment to “reconstruct” the probable sounds of early music.

The Countess of Dia holding forth; she was one of a small number of women troubadours. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

This unit covers music from around 1900 on and brings our survey

up to the present. Looking back to the year 1900, we can recognize

today’s society in an early form. Large cities, industrialization,

inoculation against disease, mass food processing, the first

automobiles, telephones, movies, and phonographs — all were in

place by the early years of the twentieth century. Hence the society

treated in this unit will strike us as fairly familiar, compared to the societies of

earlier centuries.

But the classical music produced in this period may strike us as anything but

familiar. Around 1900, classical music experienced some of the most dramatic

and abrupt changes in its entire history. Along with the changes came a wider

variety of styles than ever before. At times it seemed almost as if each composer

felt the need to create an entirely individual musical language. This tendency

toward radical innovation, once it set in, was felt in repeated waves throughout

the twentieth century. This vibrant, innovative, and unsettling creativity comes

under the label “modernism.”

Another development of great importance occurred around 1900: the widening

split between classical and popular music. A rift that had started in the nineteenth

century became a prime factor of musical life, giving rise to new traditions of

American popular music. With the evolution of ragtime and early jazz, a vital

rhythmic strain derived from African American sources was brought into the

general American consciousness. This led to a long series of developments: swing,

bebop, rhythm and blues, rock, rap, and more.

In this unit we sample the variety of musical modernism and glimpse the

movement’s outgrowths around the turn of the new millennium. The final chapter

deals with America’s characteristic popular music.