Includes glossary and index.

PART I Elements -- Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color -- Performing Media: Voices and Instruments -- Rhythm -- Music Notation -- Melody -- Harmony -- Key -- Musical Texture -- Musical Form -- Performance -- Musical Style -- PART II The Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Music in the Middle Ages (450–1450) -- Music in the Renaissance (1450–1600) -- PART III The Baroque Period -- Baroque Music -- Music in Baroque Society -- The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form -- The Fugue -- The Elements of Opera -- Opera in the Baroque Era -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Henry Purcell -- The Baroque Cantata -- Barbara Strozzi -- Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre -- The Baroque Sonata -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- The Baroque Suite -- The Chorale and Church Cantata -- The Oratorio -- George Frideric Handel -- PART IV The Classical Period -- The Classical Style (1750–1820) -- Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period -- Sonata Form -- Theme and Variations -- Minuet and Trio -- Rondo -- The Classical Symphony -- The Classical Concerto -- Classical Chamber Music -- Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- PART V The Romantic Period -- Romanticism in Music (1820–1900) -- Romantic Composers and Their Public3 The Art Song -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Clara Wieck Schumann -- Frédéric Chopin8 Franz Liszt -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Program Music -- Hector Berlioz -- Nationalism in Nineteenth- Century Music -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Antonin Dvořák -- Johannes Brahms -- Georges Bizet -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Giacomo Puccini -- PART VI The Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Musical Styles: 1900–1945 -- Music and Musicians in Society since 1900 -- Impressionism and Symbolism -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Lili Boulanger -- Primitivism -- Igor Stravinsky -- Neoclassicism -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Expressionism -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Béla Bartók -- Music in America -- Charles Ives -- George Gershwin -- William Grant Still -- Aaron Copland -- Alberto Ginastera -- Musical Styles since 1945 -- Music since 1945: Ten Representative Pieces -- Jazz -- Music for Stage and Screen -- Popular Music Genres -- PART VII Nonwestern Music -- Music in Nonwestern Cultures -- Music in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Classical Music of India

"Music: An Appreciation" remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art of listening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learning the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. Kamien equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music. The tenth edition places a particular focus on students, giving them step-by-step help as they learn the elements of music, an increased number of musical selections to experience, and an enhanced Connect and SmartBook experience