How To Listen To Music 7th Ed
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How to Listen to Music, 7th ed
In 'How to Listen to Music,' Henry Edward Krehbiel expertly guides readers through the intricate world of music appreciation, using a blend of scholarly insight and accessible prose. This comprehensive seventh edition refines the foundations laid in previous iterations, emphasizing the importance of active listening and critical engagement with various musical forms. Krehbiel highlights elements of music theory and history while contextualizing them within the broader spectrum of Western classical music, making it an essential text for both novices and seasoned musicians alike. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854-1923) was a prominent musicologist and critic, whose extensive career in journalism and academia significantly influenced American music culture. His deep-seated passion for music drove him to articulate complex musical concepts to a broader audience, promoting a deeper understanding of the art form. Krehbiel's prior experience as a music critic enabled him to distill the nuances of music into lessons that resonate with readers, making the art of listening an attainable skill. 'How to Listen to Music' is a vital resource for anyone wishing to deepen their appreciation for music. Krehbiel's engaging style not only educates but also encourages a profound emotional connection to the art form. Whether an aspiring musician or a casual listener, readers will find invaluable insights that make music more meaningful and enjoyable.
How to Listen to Music, 7th Ed
A passage from the book... This book has a purpose, which is as simple as it is plain; and an unpretentious scope. It does not aim to edify either the musical professor or the musical scholar. It comes into the presence of the musical student with all becoming modesty. Its business is with those who love music and present themselves for its gracious ministrations in Concert-Room and Opera House, but have not studied it as professors and scholars are supposed to study. It is not for the careless unless they be willing to inquire whether it might not be well to yield the common conception of entertainment in favor of the higher enjoyment which springs from serious contemplation of beautiful things; but if they are willing so to inquire, they[Pg 4] shall be accounted the class that the author is most anxious to reach. The reasons which prompted its writing and the laying out of its plan will presently appear. For the frankness of his disclosure the author might be willing to apologize were his reverence for music less and his consideration for popular affectations more; but because he is convinced that a love for music carries with it that which, so it be but awakened, shall speedily grow into an honest desire to know more about the beloved object, he is willing to seem unamiable to the amateur while arguing the need of even so mild a stimulant as his book, and ingenuous, mayhap even childish, to the professional musician while trying to point a way in which better appreciation may be sought.
How to Listen to Music 7th Ed.
Book Excerpt: nd thought about least. Why this should be the case may be explained on several grounds. A sweet mystery enshrouds the nature of music. Its material part is subtle and elusive. To master it on its technical side alone costs a vast expenditure of time, patience, and industry. But since it is, in one manifestation or another, the most popular of the arts, and one the enjoyment of which is conditioned in a peculiar degree on love, it remains passing strange that the indifference touching its nature and elements, and the character of the phenomena which produce it, or are produced by it, is so general. I do not recall that anybody has ever tried to ground this popular ignorance touching an art of which, by right of birth, everybody is a critic. The unamiable nature of the task, of which I am keenly conscious, has probably been a bar to such an undertaking. But a frank diagnosis must precede the discovery of a cure for every disease, and I have undertaken to point out a way in which this grievous ailment in the soRead More