The Enjoyment of Music 5th Edition - Joseph Machlis Hardcover 1984 Ex Library

Description: The Enjoyment of Music 5th Edition - Joseph Machlis Hardcover 1984 Ex Library Preface to the Fifth Edition In preparing this new edition of The Enjoyment of Music, I pondered the question of whether the philosophy of the original book was still valid for students today. Had the unprecedented dissemination of music-made possible by all the recent technological advances-altered my conviction that teaching a student how to enjoy an art is not quite the same as teaching its history? After much thought, I decided that the order in which the material is presented should still be determined by psychological rather than purely chronological considerations. Supporting this decision is the thought that, if I wanted to introduce a young person today to the joys of English literature, I would begin with the great novels of the nineteenth century or the works of Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut before tackling Beowulf or The Faerie Queene. Similarly, once the basic elements of music have been explained, I discuss composers such as Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, Verdi, Wagner, and their contemporaries, whose harmonic and melodic language is most accessible to students today; then I move back to the late-eighteenth-century Classicism of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, from there to the older music of Gregorian chant to Bach and Handel; and finally, to the twentieth century. See photos for exact condition and contents. Free 🇦🇺 postage from Brisbane Queensland

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