Classical Music for Dummies
Do You:
A.) Enjoy classical music, but not know much about it?
B.) Feel intimidated whenever the topic comes up in conversation?
C) Wonder what all the fuss is about?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, Classical Music For DummiesTm is for you! It's the easiest way to learn the basics without even taking time out from your schedule.
This is no dry lecture. David Pogue and Scott Speck have a lively conversational style and a wicked sense of humor that makes it fun to fine tune your appreciation of the great works and the people (composers, musicians, conductors) who create them In this audio, they cover:
- How to Spot a Sonata: The Packages Music Comes In
- From Bones to Hepklephones: A Field Guide to the Orchestra
- The Surprising Personalities of Legendary Composers: from Bach
- to Beethoven
- The World's Most Beloved Classical Pieces and How They Got That Way
Along the way, the authors illustrate their points with samples from seven of the most beloved and memorable pieces of music ever written including Tchaikovsky's Patheitique Symphony, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
Classical Music For DummiesTm is the fun and easy way to open the door to a richer cultural experience'.
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Review:
In a time when school music classes (if they exist at all) teach their students the finer points of the themes from The Twilight Zone and Jaws instead of real music; when classical radio stations are converted to Lite Rock or switched to a "top 100" classical jukebox format; and when even churches increasingly favor banal "Jesus Is My Boyfriend"-style slop instead of Bach, Mozart, and Vaughn Williams, classical music may legitimately be seen as an endangered cultural species. Enter Scott Speck and David Pogue, who take out the unnecessary mystery, and offer an easy-to-swallow quickie education, ranging from Gregorian chants to contemporary composers such as John Adams and John Corigliano. If you can't tell an oboe from a bassoon, there's also a dandy guide to the instruments of the orchestra, and once you're through that information you'll know the difference between a concerto and a sonata. Best of all is the introduction to music theory, which actually makes a daunting subject seem easy. It's all supported by a helpful enhanced compact disc (it works in your CD-ROM drive; it plays on your stereo's CD player) containing more than an hour of representative musical tidbits from good EMI recordings. Although the tone is unremittingly flippant and the jokes are, for the most part, pretty bad, Classical Music for Dummies is one of the better works in this series, and really does provide a useful reference for a subject too often seen as arcane.
From the Back Cover:
EMI "Your cup of tea...if you feel bad about how little you know." — Des Moines Register
More than 60 minutes of music from EMI recordings, including excerpts from:
Over 60 minutes of music on enhanced audio CD
Features tips on how to start a classical music collection
"A wonderfully diverse and enriching look into the world of classical music." —Tony Kniffen, Principal Tubist, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Are you baffled by Bach? Bewildered by Beethovan? Befuddled by Brahms? Relax! This friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide gives you the score on composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more — and shows you just how enjoyable and rewarding classical music can be.
Discover how to:
- Distinguish the different styles of classical music
- Attend a live concert in style
- Know the instruments in a orchestra
- Understand rhythm, intervals, and other fundamentals
- Build a fabulous classical music library
More than 60 minutes of music from EMI recordings, including excerpts from:
- Handel's Water Music
- Bach's Well Tempered Clavier
- Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat
- Beethovan's Symphony No. 5
- Brahm's Symphony No. 4
- Dvorįk's Serenade for Strings
- Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.
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- PublisherHarper Audio
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0694519081
- ISBN 13 9780694519088
- BindingAudio Cassette
- Number of pages2
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