Roger Kamien

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

Kamien studied at Queens (NY) College. 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 with which students of all levels and backgrounds can feel comfortable. Currently his latest version of this work has been the Music: An Appreciation 8th Edition. It contains a multimedia CD-ROM and history of jazz, rock, classical period and the composition of an orchestra, including many more facts about music and its development in history with the greatest composers and musicians in history.

In his musical training, Kamien has studied the piano with Claudio Arrau, among others; and Schenkerian analysis with Felix Salzer and Ernst Oster[1]. He has earned his doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1964[2].

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

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  1. ^ Jerusalem Music Centre
  2. ^ publication

Reviews of his books:

  • Music: An Appreciation.
    • Music Educators Journal Nov 2001 v88 p69
    • Teaching Music August 1998 v6 p44
  • Norton Scores. (Book Review)
    • Library Journal Sept 1, 1972 p2712
    • Opera News Oct 12, 1968 p30
    • Library Journal Oct 1, 1968 p3564
    • The New York Times Book Review Sept 8, 1968 p22

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