Whaaaaaaaaat!?: I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide - Couverture souple

Bathory-Kitsz, Dennis

 
9781530729524: Whaaaaaaaaat!?: I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide
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ISBN 10 : 1530729521 ISBN 13 : 9781530729524
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

“Whaaaaaaaaat!? I Don’t Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide” is a tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel classical music is forbidding, complex and grandiose. It is a concise and helpful book with humor and insight written by a composer and performer with a lifetime of experience. Beginning with patterns, pitches and instruments, author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from performers to shrieking singers to the mysterious classical codes, from Beethoven (“the great hulk of a man”) through space music, tone poems, nationalism, and even composers insulting each other. Written in response to a student’s plea for help (“I’m desperate! I don’t get classical music!”), the book is not stuck in the distant past. Instead, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” includes classical music—which the composer prefers to call “nonpop”—from ancient times right up to the present day, from Gregorian chant through electrons and gongs to nonpop fused with pop. Writes one of his students, “it accomplishes what a textbook does without being a textbook.” Another says, “It gets right into the dirty details of Western music and does so in a way that makes even the most novice listener feel like a professional.” Explored and critiqued by more than two dozen readers from complete amateurs to working professionals, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” is insightful, exuberant, funny and, according to one music professor, “terrifically valuable as a corrective to bad thinking and its offspring, bad teaching.” In a short, readable 100 pages, Bathory-Kitsz shares the madness and mystery of classical music.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

“Whaaaaaaaaat!? I Don’t Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide” is a tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel classical music is forbidding, complex and grandiose. It is a concise and helpful book with humor and insight written by a composer and performer with a lifetime of experience. Beginning with patterns, pitches and instruments, author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from performers to shrieking singers to the mysterious classical codes, from Beethoven (“the great hulk of a man”) through space music, tone poems, nationalism, and even composers insulting each other. Written in response to a student’s plea for help (“I’m desperate! I don’t get classical music!”), the book is not stuck in the distant past. Instead, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” includes classical music—which the composer prefers to call “nonpop”—from ancient times right up to the present day, from Gregorian chant through electrons and gongs to nonpop fused with pop. Writes one of his students, “it accomplishes what a textbook does without being a textbook.” Another says, “It gets right into the dirty details of Western music and does so in a way that makes even the most novice listener feel like a professional.” Explored and critiqued by more than two dozen readers from complete amateurs to working professionals, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” is insightful, exuberant, funny and, according to one music professor, “terrifically valuable as a corrective to bad thinking and its offspring, bad teaching.” In a short, readable 100 pages, Bathory-Kitsz shares the madness and mystery of classical music.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1530729521
ISBN 13 
9781530729524
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
126
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