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NOW ... understanding more about music can be as easy as listening to your favorite recordings. Understanding. What you need to know to increase your listening pleasure. Stereo Review is proud to announce an important new set of recordings created to help you expand your understanding of music. This unique four-disc album is interesting, easy to comprehend, and instructive. It is the first project of its kind to approach the understanding of music through its basic elements: rhythm ... melody ... harmony ... texture (tone) If you have wanted to know more about music--or simply to enjoy it more--Stereo Review's GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC will be the most rewarding step you can take in that direction. Written and narrated exclusively for Stereo Re view by David Randolph, Music Director of the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation, this fascinating set of stereo records will help you become a more sophisticated, more knowledgeable listener-- and a more completely satisfied one as well. It will give you an "ear for music" you never thought you had. In the GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC, David Randolph first discusses, by means of recorded narration, how the composer uses and unifies all the basic musical elements. After each musical point is made in the narration, a musical demonstration of the point under discussion is provided. Thus you become a part of the creative musical process by listening, by understanding, by seeing how music's "raw materials" are employed by com posers and performers to attain their highest level of expressivity and communication through musical form. FOUR LONG-PLAY STEREO RECORDS Record I--The Elements of Music 1. Rhythm 2. Melody 3. Harmony 4. Texture Record II--Sense and Sensation in Music (The Instruments of the Orchestra) How Music Is Unified Record III--Form in Music Words and Music Record IV--Can Music Tell a Story or Paint a Picture? The Interpretation of Music The GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC contains OVER 200 MUSICAL EXAMPLES which have been carefully chosen from among thousands of recordings by major record companies as the best illustrations of musical points made in the recorded narration. In addition, supplementary musical demonstrations were specially re corded for this album. FREE BOOKLET INCLUDED The accompanying booklet is a valuable complement to the album. It presents David Randolph's straightforward professional approach to music, and shares the insights and understanding of his many years of experience in bringing music to listeners ... as well as advice on how you can make the best use of the album. If you already have some knowledge of music, the Guide to Understanding Music can expand and enrich that knowledge. It you've always wanted to understand music but have been discouraged be cause it looked too difficult and time-consuming, the Guide to Understanding Music can show you how easily and quickly you can make yourself at home with any music. ---------- First Time Ever Offered The Guide to Understanding Music has been several years in the planning and production stages to assure that it would be as complete, as up-to-date, and as effective a presentation of its subject as possible. The exclusive four-disc recording is now ready, available for the first time through Stereo Review. The special low price is just 521.93 , postpaid, for all four 33 1/3 rpm stereo long-play records, a price made possible by the availability of the consultative and production facilities of Stereo Review and its staff. Under ordinary auspices, a work of this nature and importance would cost much more. ---------- SPECIAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY OFFER Of particular importance is the role the GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC can play as a teaching tool for music departments in schools throughout the country. Orders for 3 sets or more are available to schools and libraries at the SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE of only $19.78 per album, a savings of 10% off the regular price of $21.98. This special quantity price is also available to individuals and organizations who may have a need for more than one album. Schools may submit orders on standard purchasing forms. Individuals and organizations are requested to use the coupon on 'this page and enclose payment with order. Ziff-Davis Service Division, Dept. R, 595 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012. Also see:
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