Learning to Listen: A Handbook for Music

Cooper, Grosvenor

This clearly written guide to good listening habits is an excellent introduction to the essential musical knowledge one needs to understand the great musical masterpieces of past and present. Complete with examples and illustrations, this handbook introduces its reader to technicalities such as notation, terminology, and metrics, and will enable him to follow a score, identify instruments, pick out themes, and recognize common musical terms.

EAN

9780226115191

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

15 February 1962

Pages

202