Understanding Music - Softcover

For one semester/quarter undergraduate-level courses in Music Appreciation. Understanding Music teaches students what to listen for in music. Jeremy Yudkin's text is a rich music appreciation program that supports the instructor's ultimate goal of teaching active listening. By focusing on music of the Western tradition in its social, historical, and global context, this text engages students in an active listening experience of music through a lively narrative and innovative activities- all supported by accompanying CD recordings, web-based listening, and listening guides.

Jeremy Yudkin was born in England and educated in England and the United States. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Classical and Modern Languages from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Stanford University. He has taught at San Francisco State University, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Harvard University, Oxford University, and, since 1982, at Boston University, where he is a professor of music and associated faculty in the department of African American studies. Dr. Yudkin is also visiting Professor of Music at Oxford University. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston University's Society of Fellows, the Camargo Foundation, and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, he has written articles for the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of Musicology, the Musical Quarterly, Musica Disciplina, and Music and Letters, and contributed to several volumes of essays. His research specialties include the Middle Ages, early Beethoven, and jazz studies. A noted lecturer, Professor Yudkin has given talks and presented papers across the United States and in Europe and Russia. He is the author of seven books on various aspects of music and music history, including Music in Medieval Europe (1989), Discover Music (2004), and The Lerox School of Jazz (2006). At Boston University he teaches courses on jazz and the Beatles.