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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Swafford, Jan
JAN SWAFFORD é compositor, escritor e musicólogo. Nascido em 1946, formou-se em Harvard e na Escola de Música de Yale. Foi professor de composição no Conservatório de Boston e teve suas obras tocadas por importantes orquestras americanas. Autor de livros diversos, incluindo biografias de referência sobre Beethoven, Charles Ives e Brahms, é colaborador regular da Slate, do Guardian e do Boston Globe. |
| ISBN | 9780679728054 |
| Autor(a) | Swafford, Jan |
| Editora | Vintage |
| Ano de edição | 1992 |
| Páginas | 624 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |