CLASSICAL MUSIC DOESN'T HAVE TO BE INTIMIDATING
Listen makes music approachable and personal, helping you develop your appreciation for music and the listening skills to explore it further. With high-quality recordings, concise historical and cultural context, and interesting composer biographies, this book provides the background you need to understand and appreciate music. The Eighth Edition offers new features to help you study important concepts, new perspectives on twentieth-century music, and new examples to enhance your understanding of the forms and genres of classical music.
Generations of students have developed a love of music and focused listening skills through the enjoyable prose, high-quality recordings, unmatched Listening Charts, and historical context in Listen.
In the eighth edition this classic text gets a fresh face, with a new design that enhances its clarity and accessibility, new features that help students review and synthesize important concepts, new perspectives on twentieth-century music, and new repertory that enhances students’ exposure to the forms and genres of classical music.
