Music Listening Today

Book excerpt: Charles Hoffer’s best-selling MUSIC LISTENING TODAY is a complete course solution that develops student’s listening skills while teaching them to appreciate the different styles, forms, and genres of music. The text features 43 concise chapters, providing instructors with flexibility in course management. MUSIC LISTENING TODAY offers rich illustrations of musical moments in daily life throughout the text, as well as covers a variety of popular music from cultures around the world. MUSIC LISTENING TODAY is a brief, affordable chronological survey text featuring two CDs automatically included with the book at no additional cost. The CDs contain the text’s core music selections, and provide students with the date of work, genre, form, medium, and tempo. Downloadable Active Listening Guides for the CD graphically show the progression of the musical work, providing examples and commentary for student learning. These tools also give students live access to biographical sketches, musical terms, interactive Practice Learning Quizzes, and links to related websites. MUSIC LISTENING TODAY provides dozens of familiar and lesser-known musical selections, all carefully chosen for their ability to get students interested in listening to all kinds of music. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.