Roger Kamien

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Roger Kamien (born 1934) is a retired professor emeritus of musicology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He was born in Paris, and was raised in America. He is the author of the book Music: An Appreciation, which is intended to show students the basics and the importance of music. It is considered essentially a textbook because its use mostly in colleges (and sometimes in high schools). It is published by McGraw-Hill and provides learners with information on how to understand classical and modern music.

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Kamien taught at Queens College, New York. He developed the concept of the listening outline, which he incorporated into the first edition of Music: An Appreciation and which he has refined and enhanced in every subsequent edition. This is a text intended for students of all levels and backgrounds. The latest edition is the twelfth. [1] It contains a multimedia CD-ROM and histories of jazz, rock, and classical music and details of the composition of an orchestra.

Kamien has studied the piano with Claudio Arrau, among others; and Schenkerian analysis with Felix Salzer and Ernst Oster. [2] He obtained a doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1964. [3]

He is the editor of the widely used series Norton Scores, and the author of numerous academic articles on musicology.

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References

  1. "Music: An Appreciation: Roger Kamien". Amazon.com. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. Jerusalem Music Centre
  3. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Further reading

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