Gateways to Understanding Music

Timothy Rice, Dave Wilson

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Routledge
14 November 2022

Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); 20th century & contemporary classical music

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical, popular, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, this chronology presents music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of 60 ""gateways"" addresses a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. How did the piece come to be composed or performed? How did it respond to the social and cultural issues at the time, and what does that music mean today? Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they encounter in their world.

New to this edition is a broader selection of musical examples that reflect the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion advocated by North American universities. Eight gateways have been replaced. A timeline of gateways helps students see the book’s historical narrative at a glance.

Features

Values orientation - Diverse, equitable, and inclusive approach to music history.

All genres of music - Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz.

Global scope within a historical narrative - Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences.

Recurring themes - Aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology.

Modular framework - 60 gateways - each with a listening example - allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven themes.

Consistent structure - With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music.

Anthology of scores - For those courses that use the textbook in a music history sequence.

Gateways to Understanding Music continues to employ a website to host the audio examples and instructor’s resources.

By: Timothy Rice, Dave Wilson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 1.420kg
ISBN: 9781032216294
ISBN 10: 1032216298
Pages: 478
Publication Date: 14 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy Rice is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, and founding director of the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dave Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Reviews for Gateways to Understanding Music

"""At last! An innovative, practical, and inclusive approach to studying music of Europe, North America, and beyond that puts popular and world music, American jazz, and European classical music into conversation with one another by looking at their origins and interrelationships through the lens of World history."" —Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor, The College of William and Mary ""Gateways to Understanding Music provides a profoundly new and refreshingly original approach to examining the music of the world’s cultures in cohesive, comparable, and contrasting ways that illuminate the power and meaning of all of the musics."" —Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina"