Music An Appreciation 12th by Roger Kamien
Print ISBN: 9781259892707, 1259892700
eText ISBN: 9781259966408, 1259966402
By: Roger Kamien
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Print ISBN: 9781259892707, 1259892700
eText ISBN: 9781259966408, 1259966402
Edition: 12th
Copyright year: 2018
Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art oflistening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learningthe elements of music, fostering each student’s unique path to listening andunderstanding. This is achieved through step-by-step guidance as they learn theelements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate,and an enhanced McGraw-Hill Connect experience. As the authority in the Music Appreciationcourse, Kamien equips students with the language, tools and listening skillsrequired to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.
About the Author
ROGER KAMIEN was born in Paris and raised in the United States.
He received his BA in music from Columbia College in New York, and his
MA and PhD in musicology from Princeton University. He studied piano
with his mother, composer-
conductor Anna Kamien, Nadia Reisenberg, and
Claudio Arrau. He returned to Paris as a Fulbright scholar for research on
eighteenth-
century music.
Professor Kamien taught music history, theory, and literature for two
years at Hunter College and then for twenty years at Queens College of the
City University of New York, where he was coordinator of the music appreciation
courses. During this time he was active as a pianist, appearing both in the
United States and in Europe. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta
Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Dr. Kamien was the editor of
The Norton Scores, one of the coauthors of A New Approach to Keyboard
Harmony,
and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven.
He has written articles and reviews for journals including Music Forum,
Beethoven
Forum, Musical Quarterly, Journal of Music, The Music Theory Spectrum,
Journal of Musicology, and Journal of the American Musicological Society. Roger
Kamien
has been honored as a “musician, theorist and teacher” by the volume, Bach
to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure, edited by David Beach and Josef
Goldenberg (University of Rochester Press: 2015).
Professor Kamien has appeared as a piano soloist in thirty-two countries on five
continents. He frequently performs together with his wife, the conductor-pianist
Anita Kamien,
who has also contributed immeasurably to Music: An Appreciation. The
Kamiens
have three children and eight grandchildren.
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