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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.
Publisher : Vintage; 1st edition (December 15, 1992)
Language : English
Paperback : 624 pages
ISBN-10 : 0679728058
ISBN-13 : 978-0679728054
Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
Dimensions : 5.13 x 1.12 x 7.96 inches
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