The Enjoyment of Music continues to teach students how to listen and connect to any kind of music. After more than fifty years of successfully preparing students for a lifetime of informed listening, the twelfth edition raises the bar with an expanded repertory of appealing music, an exciting new listening and assessment pedagogy and the richest and most user-friendly online resources available to students today.

The Enjoyment of Music, Essential Listening Edition, weaves together a concise text and rich media resources in a compact and affordable package that gives students all they need for an enriched listening experience. The new Fourth Edition features enhanced pedagogy built around new listening objectives and Listening Challenge online activities, a revised repertory that includes popular teaching pieces and streamlined Listening Guides that make it easier for students to identify the important things to listen for in each selection.

For nearly 70 years, The Enjoyment of Music has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Fourteenth Edition expands on this foundation with new chapters and features that add many voices to its already rich repertoire.

The 4 CD set includes the shorter edition repertoire in top quality audio recordings with track points, enabling teachers and students to jump instantly to key musical moments in each work.

Textual notes by Roger Hickman.

New Interactive Listening Guides (iLGs) are designed for lecture presentation and individual study. For the Eleventh Edition, the iLGs have been revised to heighten student awareness of what s going on in the music by prompting them with questions about what they are hearing. The iLGs are available in two formats: DVD and Streaming. No installation is required. All iLGs are just a click away, driven from a menu on the DVD or from the Playlist section of each chapter on StudySpace. The DVD also provides access to mp3 files that students and faculty can drag from the disc into iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iPad or other music player or device. New and innovative features for this new generation of iLGs include:

New, Sequential Listening Pedagogy. Each iLG offers students the optimal listening experience by guiding them through four steps to sharpen their listening skills. These task-oriented steps include:

1. Overview this section of the iLG offers background information and contexts about each work.

2. Journal reports to the Norton Gradebook and is accessed by students as they encounter prompts that help them to Prepare, Focus, and Reflect on their listening experiences.

3. Guide This section of the guide breaks the work down into sections and describes what is occurring musically.

4. Listen For Whether projected in class or accessed in individual study, this section of the guide serves as a reminder of the most salient attributes of the work.

5. Quiz after students have considered context, listened for discovery, been reminded of sections they must remember, they can click from the iLGs to take and online quiz that reports to the Norton Gradebook."

Textual notes by Roger Hickman.

Every major work discussed in the full edition has a recording in the 8 CD Set.