Aaron Copland’s What to Listen for in Music

I wish I had more musical knowledge when reading this book. There were many terms I didn’t understand. In class I learned some things that helped me to understand the book but some of the material was over my head. I tried to look up some of the terms I did not understand, in the dictionary, but perhaps I needed some sort of music dictionary for those terms because there were quite a few of them that I could not locate. The vocabulary section in the textbook provided some assistance but there were still some terms that I could not find. It is hard to believe that this book was intended for the layperson. I can’t imagine being able to understand too much of the musical jargon without some sort of music knowledge. I think if I could read music and I cou

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