Gateways to Understanding Music: Edition 2

New to this edition is a broader selection of musical examples that reflect the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion advocated by North American universities. Eight gateways have been replaced. A timeline of gateways helps students see the book’s historical narrative at a glance.

Features

• Values orientation - Diverse, equitable, and inclusive approach to music history.
• All genres of music - Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz.
• Global scope within a historical narrative - Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences.
• Recurring themes - Aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology.
• Modular framework - 60 gateways - each with a listening example - allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven themes.
• Consistent structure - With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music.
• Anthology of scores - For those courses that use the textbook in a music history sequence.

Gateways to Understanding Music continues to employ a website to host the audio examples and instructor’s resources.