The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music
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- Synopsis
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The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:
- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times;
- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement;
- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds;
- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library.
Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 620 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679728054
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/05/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Quatrain Associates, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Music
- Submitted By:
- 170
- Proofread By:
- 170
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.