Music: An Appreciation Brief Edition with 5-CD Set
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Music: An Appreciation Brief Edition with 5-CD Set Details
About the Author Roger Kamien received his B.A. in Musicology from Columbia and his M.A. and PhD. from Princeton. Kamien taught for 2 years at Hunter College and for 20 years at Queens College, where he coordinated the music appreciation courses. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to Music: An Appreciation, Prof. Kamien has written numerous articles and reviews, co-wrote A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony, and edited the Norton Scores. He is an accomplished pianist and, in recent years, has formed a two-piano team with his wife, Anita. Read more
Reviews
The book has errors in page call outs, in the text. Otherwise, the book is very good, and excellently fits the needs for a class. The CD set has issues with the song titles. CD 2 was fine, CD1 and 3, most especially 1, had to be completely renamed and clarified. The Windows Media Player could not come up with album art, or appropriate song titles. That was confusing, for a five year old addition, that has been updated: Tenth Edition, Seventh Brief Edition. A large part of the issue, McGraw Hill also has an extended, Basic Edition. I would think that McGraw Hill would have this publishing and editing thing down by now. Especially since this book and CD set is a requirement for many college music appreciation courses.
