Many entertaining (and entirely true!) facts await your discovery as bestselling author David W. Barber takes you on another delightful romp through the pages of music history - as it ought to be taught.
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David Barber is a journalist, author, composer and performer who lives and works in Toronto.
Dave Donald works as an art director for a Toronto-based national magazine.
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For its goal, easily a 5!,
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This review is from: If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught (Paperback)
I was unfamiliar with Barber's works and from the title expected the book to accompany my Mus 312 class on Baroque Music History and focus completely on that. (whoops) The book's real goal is a comical approach to music history in its entirety. None the less, I still read the book and enjoyed it immensely. I wish I would have had this (and now Barber's other books which I also highly recommend) for my Mus 100 class (Introduction to Music Masterpieces). Barber's books take the information a textbook offer in an easygoing and funny way. Had my professor assigned all of Barber's Music History books together instead of a normal textbook for an Introduction to Music History, I would have left with the same knowledge a textbook offers but having enjoyed many more laughs along the way. Informative yet funny, how can you lose with that?
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This second book of music history is just as good and as funny as the first, Bach, Beethoven and the Boys - Tenth Anniversary Edition!: Music History As It Ought To Be Taught. More about musical genres than composers, it takes one on hilarious whirlwind tour of music from the earliest times to the present. Dave Donald's illustrations add a humorous touch all their own. Another "must have" book for any music lover.
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A great CD from a Great Artist... He teaches at the CSUS Jazz Camp with the Widner Band and is as good a teacher as he is an artist ... Would highly recommend this CD .....
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SOME PEOPLE WILL TELL YOU there are a lot of different types of music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capo aria, church modes, cantus firmus, solo song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Notre Dame, Middle Ages, Igor Stravinsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, High Mass, Missa Solemnis, Franz Schubert, Johann Stamitz, Old Testament, Richard Wagner New!
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SOME PEOPLE WILL TELL YOU there are a lot of different types of music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capo aria, church modes, cantus firmus, solo song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Notre Dame, Middle Ages, Igor Stravinsky, Alessandro Scarlatti, High Mass, Missa Solemnis, Franz Schubert, Johann Stamitz, Old Testament, Richard Wagner New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Quotable Twain (Quotable Books) by David W. Barber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Quotable Alice (Quotable Books) by David W. Barber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Harvard Dictionary of Music: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (Series I: Diaries) by Willi Apel on page 35, and page 44
- Quotable Jazz (Quotable Books) by Marshall Bowden in Back Matter
- Robin Hood by Margaret Early on page 74
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