书名：What to Listen for in Music 如何欣赏音乐
作者：Aaron Copland亚伦·科普兰
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531766
商品尺寸：10.5x 2.0 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：266 （以实物为准）

What to Listen for in Music《如何欣赏音乐》（怎样欣赏音乐）是美国著名作曲家艾伦·科普兰著作的一本关于音乐的文学性作品，书中就“音乐欣赏”的问题进行了论述。本书于1939年首次出版，后被译成多种文字，销量已突破150万册。本书适合有一定英文基础的音乐爱好者、教师或学生阅读。
推荐理由：
1.内容深入浅出、循序渐进，对欣赏音乐的专业脉络讲解得十分清晰到位；
2.用词较为简单，书中的乐理知识也浅显易懂，属于入门级的音乐类科普读物；
3.英文原版无删节，采用轻型环保纸印刷，书本小巧轻盈，方便随身携带。
Whetheryoulisten to Mozart or Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland invitesyouto askyourselftwo basic questions: Areyouhearing everything that is going on? Areyoureally being sensitive to it?If you can’t not answer yes to both questions, you owe it to yourself to read this book.With his provocative suggestions, Copland guidesyouthrough a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of all art forms.This classic work, the only book of its kind written by an eminent American composer, features:
·Chapters on contemporary music and film music
·Recommended recordings for each chapter
·A selected list of books for further reading and reference
In this edition, leading music critic Alan Rich continuesCopland’s discussion of contemporary music for today’s listeners and traces the composer’s success in bringing music lovers“closer to the magical mysteries of the music we can hear and want to hear better.”
“By far the best thing of its kind yet to appear.”—Modern Music
“One of the most helpful, sensible, and enjoyable discourses on the subject ever published.”—Victor Record Review
WITH A FOREWORD AND AN EPILOGUE BY ALAN RICH AND A NEW APPRECIATION BY LEONARD SLATKIN

What to Listen for in Music《如何欣赏音乐》通过分析音乐的各种要素和结构，深入浅出地叙述了有关音乐欣赏的一些必要知识，书中某些篇章高出了单纯音乐欣赏的范围，具有学理性探讨价值，这对音乐爱好者或大多数专业音乐工作者也具有一定的参考价值。

Aaron Copland: America’sMusic Voice
Foreword
Introduction
Author’sNotefor the 1757Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Preliminaries
HowWe Listen
TheCreative Processin Music
TheFour ElementsofMusic—Ⅰ. Rhythm
TheFour ElementsofMusic—Ⅱ. Melody
TheFour ElementsofMusic—Ⅲ. Harmony
TheFour ElementsofMusic—Ⅳ. Tone Color
MusicalTexture
MusicalStructure
FundamentalForms—Ⅰ.Sectional form
FundamentalForms—Ⅱ.Variation Form
FundamentalForms—Ⅲ.FugalForm
FundamentalForms—Ⅳ.SonataForm
FundamentalForms—Ⅴ.FreeForm
Opera andMusic Drama
Contemporary music
Film music
FromComposertoInterpretertoListener
Epilogue:“Since Then”
AppendixⅠ
AppendixⅡ
AppendixⅢ
SuggestedBibliographyforFurther Reading
Index

Aaron Copland艾伦·科普兰，美国当代著名的作曲家、指挥家、钢琴家、演讲家和作者。他于1900年11月14日生在纽约的布鲁克林区。科普兰先后从名师魏金斯坦,艾德勒、戈尔德马克和布朗瑞学习钢琴和作曲，曾受聘于纽约新社会研究院和哈佛大学的伯克郡音乐中心。他一贯致力于开拓美国音乐并他一贯致力于开拓美国音乐并推广现代音乐。科普兰的许多乐曲具有典型的美国风格，散发着浓郁的美国乡土气息。他为民间芭蕾舞剧《处女地》《小伙子比利》《竞技表演》和《阿巴拉契亚山区的春天》谱写的音乐在美国都是脍炙人口的作品。他还写了许多其它管弦乐和室内乐作品，并对爵士乐和拉丁美洲音乐也颇有研究和建树，也曾为多部影片写过配乐。
Aaron Copland’s well-known and highly regarded compositions, performed and recorded extensively throughout the world, include the Pulitzer Prize–winning balletAppalachian Spring,as well asBilly the Kid,Rodeo,Lincoln Portrait, and the film scores ofOur Town and The Heiress. On being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1986, Copland was praised for his “uniquely American music that reflects the very soul and experience of our people.” During his career, Copland taught composition at Harvard and the Berkshire Music Center, lectured all over the United States, and wroteOur New MusicandMusic and Imagination.He died in 1990.

All books on understanding music are agreed about one point: You can’t develop a better appreciation of the art merely by reading a book about it. If you want to understand music better, you can do nothing more important than listen to it. Nothing can possibly take the place of listening to music. Everything that I have to say in this book is said about an experience that you can only get outside this book. Therefore, you will probably be wasting your time in reading it unless you make a firm resolve to hear a great deal more music than you have in the past. All of us, professionals and nonprofessionals, are forever trying to deepen our understanding of the art. Reading a book may sometimes help us. But nothing can replace the prime consideration—listening to music itself.
Luckily, opportunities for hearing music are much greater than they ever were before. With the increasing availability of good music on radio and phonograph, not to mention television and the movies, almost anybody has the chance to listen to music.