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Music: Its Language, History, and Culture

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Music: Its Language, History, and Culture
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Publisher: CUNY Brooklyn College
ISBN/ASIN: 0757546390
Number of pages: 110

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The aim is to introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions, and to enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study, employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, and form used by musicians.

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