Author: Peter Herring
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780861012541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Darren Henley
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781843794042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This recording introduces classical music to the entire family. It looks at the music through the lives of the great composers and their environment from the churches and cathedrals that produced the familiar sound of Gregorian chant, to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Author: Kenyon C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780810823228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lists classical and operatic recordings that are specifically available in the new (and desirable) compact disc format. Individual titles are graded for their appropriateness to specific types and sizes of libraries. The main portion covers some 160 composers whose works are important in constituting a nuclear library collection of "serious" music. There are over 1,200 titles included and individually numbered (and fully cross-referenced) and graded. For numerous works, two or more performances are cited in order to provide the librarian with greater choices; monophonic works are specifically indicated. Many of the works are annotated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1620
ISBN-13: 9780879308650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Author: Matthew Rye
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 0785835822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 1429944544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.
Author: Alexander Waugh
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is an innovative and thoroughly enjoyable approach to demystifying classical music for the devotee and the novice alike. Consisting of a fully illustrated book with unique musical timelines and an accompanying CD, it teaches the reader to navigate any piece of music--from operas to piano sonatas to complete orchestral movements. Over 200 color photos.