Build essential listening skills for understanding and enjoying music
The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening Edition provides students with a framework to help them build their listening skills and engage more deeply with their enjoyment of music. For the Fifth Edition, new tools and new selections enhance an already robust suite of resources and diverse repertoire.
Available for Fall 2024 classes
Exam copies available in late 2023
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Redesigned Listening Guides, in-text and online
The Listening Guide has always been the core of every chapter, and now they have been redesigned to take advantage of the Norton Illumine Ebook platform, seamlessly moving students from reading to guided listening.
A tightly integrated reading and listening experience
The new Norton Illumine Ebook seamlessly weaves together reading and listening, engaging students with Check Your Understanding questions and “First, listen” interactive activities throughout each chapter and guiding them through each piece with embedded interactive Listening Guides.
A diverse and approachable repertory
of music
Enjoyment has always included music accessible to new listeners and teachable by any instructor. With the Fifth Edition, we have added four new chapters on world music, as well as new selections by women composers and composers of color.
About the Authors
Kristine Forney is Professor Emerita of Music at California State University, Long Beach, where she taught for 40 years. She has taught music appreciation to thousands of undergraduate students and has been an author of Enjoyment since 1988.
Andrew Dell'Antonio is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Winner of the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, he teaches courses in musical historiography, feminist/queer theory, and cultural studies.
Image Credits: (Forney) William F. Prizer II; (Dell'Antonio) Andrew Dell’Antonio
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