An introduction to music

✍ Scribed by Robert Lilienfeld

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 148
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here is an authoritative and informative guide to music by a talented young composer and teacher. It is designed to provide the layman with an awareness of the foundations of music and an appreciation of the value of music in daily life.

A book may discuss music in a variety of terms: historical, emotional, esthetic, or philosophical; or it may explain music in social or psychological terms. This book talks of music in its most important—and most frequently forgotten aspect— music in its organic sense. Robert Lilienfeld discusses music in relation to bodily rhythms, breathing and walking and muscular activity, and the experience of gravity—the most primitive of the senses. He explains the acoustical basis of music, examines the major forms of musical expression, and concludes with an analysis of music in our general culture.

Concise and graceful, AN INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC instills a desire for active participation in musical experience and suggests practical means of entering upon our musical heritage beyond mere concert going and record collecting.

ROBERT LILIENFELD earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in music at New York University. He is a composer, pianist, and choral director and has given piano recitals in New York and Philadelphia.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part One: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC
1. Sound as Artistic Material
2. The Acoustical Foundations of Music
3. The Intellectual Foundations of Music
4. The Scale
Part Two: THE SUBSTANCE OF MUSIC
5. Melody
6. Harmony and Polyphony
7. Rhythm
Part Three: THE PRACTICE OF MUSIC
8. Music as Part of Our Civilization
9. Music as a Practical Craft
10. Listening to Music

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