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ISBN 13
9780679728054
ISBN 10
0679728058
Book Subtitle
An Indispensable Guide For Understanding And Enjoying Classical Music
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Book Description
This is 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 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 capella to woodwinds a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library
About the Author
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.
Language
English
Author
Jan Swafford
Edition Number
1st Edition
Publication Date
01-Dec-93
Number of Pages
10