The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music - Softcover

Swafford, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679728058 ISBN 13: 9780679728054

Verlag: Vintage, 1992

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Book by Swafford Jan

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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.

Biografía del autor

Composer and writer Jan Swafford received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music; his work has been played throughout the United States and abroad. Among his awards are an NEA Composers Grant, a Tanglewood Fellowship and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679728058
• ISBN 13: 9780679728054
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624