The Vintage Guide to Classical Music - An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	December 1992
Authors:	Jan Swafford
Dimensions:	204 x 131 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	597
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-72805-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	0-679-72805-8
Barcode:	9780679728054

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