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

Swafford, Jan

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ISBN 10 : 0679728058 ISBN 13 : 9780679728054

Editeur : Vintage, 1992

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679728058
• ISBN 13: 9780679728054
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible