This exploration of the vast world of classical music is a stimulating, visually exciting reference work.
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Extremely useful study guide!,
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I borrowed this from the library as I needed help with my "Music Appreciation" class. It's great! So great I bought myself a copy! It breaks down the material and gives you the important highlights. Very engaging writing style, and it has helped me understand the material to a greater and more "rounded" degree.
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This is a serious book on classical music. Behind all the color illustrations and photographs you have a highly readable, extremely concise survey of personalities, forms and styles of music, ensembles, instruments, opera, choral, and music theory. The contributors are experienced broadcasters, lecturers and writers in the field of music who know their subject and can communicate. For example, I didn't know Stravinsky called Rachmaninoff six feet of gloom. How would you like to read a 300 word evaluation of J. S. Bach? The biographical sketches are usually 200 words with an evaluation of the musician. The book has all the information most classical music fans would want. Unlike a textbook you can profitably read this book while you are on the bus or in the John.
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THERE ARE REFERENCES TO MUSIC IN many of the earliest literary sources, but we have little idea what any of it would have sounded like. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sonata principle, nationalist composers, orchestral forces, two bassoons, operatic overture, folk rhythms, concerto form, three trombones, wind quintet, concerti grossi, piano quartet, opera seria, solo sonata, programme music, two oboes, two violins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vaughan Williams, Richard Strauss, World War, Middle Ages, Born Paris, Fourth Symphony, Third Symphony, Born London, Born Vienna, Benjamin Britten, Berlioz's Symphonie, Fifth Symphony, Johann Strauss, Notre Dame, Boris Godunov, German Romanticism, Born St Petersburg, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Don Giovanni, Midsummer Night's Dream, Born Berlin, Die Fledermaus, Domenico Scarlatti, Hugo Wolf New!
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THERE ARE REFERENCES TO MUSIC IN many of the earliest literary sources, but we have little idea what any of it would have sounded like. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sonata principle, nationalist composers, orchestral forces, two bassoons, operatic overture, folk rhythms, concerto form, three trombones, wind quintet, concerti grossi, piano quartet, opera seria, solo sonata, programme music, two oboes, two violins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vaughan Williams, Richard Strauss, World War, Middle Ages, Born Paris, Fourth Symphony, Third Symphony, Born London, Born Vienna, Benjamin Britten, Berlioz's Symphonie, Fifth Symphony, Johann Strauss, Notre Dame, Boris Godunov, German Romanticism, Born St Petersburg, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Don Giovanni, Midsummer Night's Dream, Born Berlin, Die Fledermaus, Domenico Scarlatti, Hugo Wolf New!
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- The Four Seasons (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Antonio Vivaldi on 7 pages
- Violin Concerto in D Major: Op. 35 (Dover Miniature Scores) by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky on 6 pages
- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 6 pages
- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 6 pages
- Tristan and Isolde: English National Opera Guide 6 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on 5 pages
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