罗杰?卡曼(Roger Kamien)，1934年生于巴黎，6个月大被父母带到美国，先后获得哥伦比亚大学音乐学士，普林斯顿大学音乐学硕士和博士，曾在亨特大学教音乐史，音乐理论和音乐文献，后在纽约大学女五学院担任20年音乐欣赏教研主任。19567-1959年，返回巴黎做富布赖特学者，专家研究18世纪音乐。1983年，当选耶路撒冷希伯来大学祖宾?梅塔音乐学会主席，近年来，他和妻子安妮成立一个双人钢琴组。

Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes "Music: An Appreciation, " Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music. This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students' attention on musical events as they unfold. This edition moves most of the content of the companion multi-media CD-ROM to the Online Learning Center providing open access for all students to the many activities and video instrument demonstrations.