The only music appreciation text on the market to include listening exercises throughout the book, LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC, Sixth Edition, masterfully develops and refines your listening skills. Acclaimed for unparalleled clarity and accuracy, using Wright will help you study efficiently, do well on your tests and quizzes, and learn to enjoy many kinds of music. Wright covers traditional Western music from medieval to modern. Learning to listen critically is at the heart of a music appreciation course, and Wright gives you the tools to develop and sharpen your listening skills in three important ways: First, LISTENING TO WESTERN MUSIC is the only text to include detailed Listening Exercises throughout the book. These exercises, which ask questions just like the ones your instructor is likely to ask in quizzes, will help you focus on important musical elements and episodes and do well in the course. Second, a free "Introduction to Listening" CD is packaged with each copy of the text. This CD plays all of the music discussed in the music fundamentals chapters in Part I of the text to help you get a good start in the first few weeks of class. Third, interactive Active Listening Guides and listening quizzes, with streaming music for most of the selections in the text, are available on the Schirmer Cengage Learning website and multimedia eBook.

作者：（美國）剋雷格•萊特 （Craig Wright）

剋雷格•萊特 （Craig Wright），1966年獲伊斯曼音樂學校音樂學士，1972年獲哈佛大學哲學博士，耶魯大學音樂係教授，在該校任教已三十餘年。他寫有大量的學術專著和文章，內容涉及從雷奧南到巴赫的許多作麯傢。他也是很多奬項的得主，包括古根海姆奬學金，美國音樂學協會的“愛因斯坦和金科迪奬”，以及國際音樂學協會的登特勛章。2004年，他被授予芝加哥大學人文學科名譽博士學位。他還與布萊因•希姆斯閤著瞭《西方文明中的音樂》一書（湯姆森•希爾默齣版公司，2006）。