Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
Language: English
Published by Hyperion, 2002
- Softcover
- Used
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For anyone who is aching to discover classical music, this comprehensive and accessible book is the ideal teacher. Writing in clear and highly entertaining prose, music expert, teacher, lecturer and famous author Fred Plotkin presents classical music in a way that respects both the reader and the art form. Profiling such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak in great depth along with many others, this book delves into a thousand years of music, and includes interviews with such important musicians as Emanuel Ax, Marilyn Horne and James Levine.
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- Title
- Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
- Author
- Fred Plotkin
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786886277
- ISBN 13
- 9780786886272
For anyone who is aching to discover classical music, this comprehensive and accessible book is the ideal teacher. Writing in the clear and highly entertaining prose that made Opera 101 the standard text in its field, Fred Plotkin--music expert, teacher, lecturer, and famous author--presents classical music in a way that respects both the reader and the art form. In Classical Music 101:
- The reader will discover how to become an expert listener, which is essential for learning to love classical music.
- A thousand years of music are explored, with emphasis on great works in all styles. Significant composers will be profiled in depth, including Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and many more.
- Important musicians, such as pianist Emanuel Ax, singer Marilyn Horne, and conductor James Levine, speak about their art in interviews.
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