The Enjoyment of Music
Essential Listening Edition
The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening Edition expands the available formats of the most trusted introduction to music with a new, brief, focused, and highly accessible textbook.
The Essential Listening Edition connects students with the music, providing them with the strongest and most affordable media and listening packages available in music appreciation, all designed to help them build listening skills and understand the essentials of music history.
Listening Activities
Students use the Listening Activities—which appear throughout the text—first to listen to short musical excerpts, then to answer a series of questions that ground their conceptual understanding. In the back of the book, students are provided with the correct answers—and helpful feedback.
Complete coverage of musical elements up front
The Essential Listening Edition gives students a complete overview of the materials of music up front, with greater depth on tonality and form later, in the appropriate historical context (the Baroque and Classical periods, respectively). This overview at the beginning makes these challenging concepts less daunting when examined in their historical context later in the book.
In-text listening guides
For the Essential Listening Edition, in-text listening guides have been streamlined in order to focus students even more on essential concepts. “What to Listen For” sections have been sharpened, and descriptions of musical moments have been condensed and clarified. Notated musical examples have been kept to a minimum, making the Listening Guides accessible for students of all skill levels.
Electronic media
The Essential Listening Edition media package includes the Materials of Music Interactive, Interactive Listening Guides, and web-based versions of listening activities—all tools that make listening easier.
CD-ROM
Essential musical works for offline listening.
Student Resource DVD
The Student Resource DVD-ROM offers the following: Electronic Listening Guides, with listening quizzes and listening cues for each piece; Materials of Music Interactive Exercises, which allow students to manipulate music on-screen and then view and hear the results; and iMusic Examples, which featuring over an hour of complete musical works or excerpts.
Study Guide
This useful workbook reinforces chapter content with text-review materials, including listening exercises, cultural explorations, sample concert report outlines, and review assignments.
StudySpace
This free student website features study plans, chapter outlines, flashcards, quizzes, and more tools to help you study and review.
Online Listening Lab
An alternative to traditional audio CDs, the Online Listening Lab includes streaming and downloadable music.
Instructor's Resource Manual
The Instructor’s Resource Manual offers an overview of the text’s components to help instructors make the most of the text's resources, including suggested approaches to teaching, with a sample course syllabus and teaching schedule; a resources list for enhancing key units; and answers to Study Guide questions.
Instruments of the Orchestra
Recorded at the Eastman School of Music, this DVD shows the instruments of the orchestra in action. Ideal for classroom use, the DVD allows instructors to select clips alphabetically or by instrument family and includes complete descriptions of each instrument.
Music Example Bank
The Music Example Bank enlivens class presentations through 4 CDs of diverse musical excerpts that illustrate core concepts in Western, traditional, and non-Western musics. Topical and composer indices make this rich resource practical and easy to use.
Norton Media Library
This newly expanded resource for multimedia presentations offers: 140 musical excerpts from the Music Example Bank, PowerPoint Lecture Slides for each textbook chapter and PowerPoint-ready Instruments of the Orchestra videos, PDFs of in-text listening guides, and all StudySpace questions formatted in PowerPoint for classroom response systems.
Test Bank
