5 CD Set for Wright's Listening to Music, 7th and Listening to Western Music, 7th
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5 CD Set for Wright's Listening to Music, 7th and Listening to Western Music, 7th Details
About the Author Craig M. Wright received his Bachelor of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1966 and his Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of Kentucky and for the past forty years has been teaching at Yale University, where he is currently the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright's courses include his perennially popular introductory course, Listening to Music (also part of the offerings of Open Yale Courses); his large lecture course Exploring the Nature of Genius; and most recently his Coursera course Introduction to Classical Music. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on composers ranging from Leoninus to Bach. Wright has also been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. And in 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining fellow inductee, banjo player Steve Martin. In addition to LISTENING TO MUSIC and LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC, EIGHTH EDITION, Wright has also published THE ESSENTIAL LISTENING TO MUSIC, SECOND EDITION; LISTENING TO MUSIC, CHINESE EDITION (Schirmer Cengage Learning/Three Union Press, 2012), translated and simplified by Profs. Li Xiujung (China Conservatory, Beijing) and Yu Zhigang (Central Conservatory, Beijing), both of whom worked with Wright at Yale; and MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, MEDIA UPDATE (Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2010), with coauthor Bryan Simms. He is currently at work on a volume titled MOZART'S BRAIN: EXPLORING THE NATURE OF GENIUS. Read more
Reviews
The information in the book is fabulous and especially so if you have cd set and are either participating in the online Yale mooc Introduction to Classical Music or watching on youtube Listening to Music by the author who gives a great course, parts of which are included in the mooc.The problem with the book with that it is big, and for it's size, it is flimsy. It's a problem that only a publisher (I suppose) can fix. If it's hardback, it will be way to heavy. The paper should be different. I haven't seen the 5th edition which is the one referred to in both the class and the mooc so I don't know the difference. You have to use this book on a table or desk when actually, you would want to use it wherever you have music. If not for the paper, I would give it 5 stars. It is a fabulous introduction (and even more) to the entire subject. I love the mooc. I think Carig Wright is a special teacher with a great understand of the role of all art in our world.
