Masterworks: A Musical Discovery (2nd Edition)

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Summary: An Update on Music Appreciation
Review: A 2nd edition of this worthy text increases listening examples to four CD's and still includes an interactive CD-ROM and companion website. Congratulations to the author for configuring a text that could work in a ten week quarter calendar. The nine chapter format with introduction would be difficult to complete without careful choices-- but a tri-mester calendar would be a snap. The last third of the text considers evolution of American music to the 20th century, after following the traditional Euro-centric focus on art music. Other texts (like Willoughby) attempt to include more diversity from world music cultures, but require a longer term-- the semester calendar.