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Roger Kamien (born 1934) is a retired
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of
musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...
at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
. 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''of'' its use mostly in
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(and sometimes in
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s). It is published by
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and provides learners with information on how to understand classical and modern music. 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. 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 Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque music, baroque to 20th-century classical music, 20th-century composers, especially B ...
, among others; and Schenkerian analysis with Felix Salzer and Ernst Oster. He obtained a doctorate degree from
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in 1964.The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
/ref> He is the editor of the widely used series ''Norton Scores'', and the author of numerous academic articles on musicology.


References


Further reading

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


External links


Personal page at the Hebrew University siteOfficial page of the book Music: An Appreciation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kamien, Roger Israeli musicologists Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Living people 1934 births