Learning to Listen : A Handbook for Music

The University of Chicago Press

Learning to Listen A Handbook for Music\nby Grosvenor Cooper\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Grosvenor Cooper\nTitle: Learning to Listen A Handbook for Music\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Theory of music and musicology\nPublisher: University of Chicago Press\nPublication year: 1962\nISBN-13: 9780226115191\nISBN-10: 0226115194\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis 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 recogn.