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Vintage Guide to Classical Music : An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music by Jan Swafford (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Vintage Guide to Classical Music, Paperback by Swafford, Jan, ISBN 0679728058, ISBN-13 9780679728054, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Surveys the history of Western classical music, offers brief profiles of influential composers from Vivaldi to John Cage, and discusses important compositions and periods

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679728058

ISBN-139780679728054

eBay Product ID (ePID)735725

Product Key Features

Book TitleVintage Guide to Classical Music : An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music

Number of Pages624 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicHistory & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Reference, Instruction & Study / Appreciation

GenreMusic

AuthorJan Swafford

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-050217

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal780/.9

SynopsisThe 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberMT6.S94