The Rough Guide to Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Classical Music
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 691
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ISBN-10 : 9781405383219
ISBN-13 : 1405383216
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Rough Guide to Classical Music by : Joe Staines

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Classical Music written by Joe Staines and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.


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