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The Listener's Guide to Music, With a Concert-goer's Glossary

Author: Percy Alfred Scholes

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016846417

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Chamber Music

Author: James M. Keller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 019020639X

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Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present.

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to American Folk Music

Author: Kip Lornell

Publisher: Perigee Trade

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive listener's guide to American folk music provides a concise history of the musical genre and its most important performers, along with an A-to-Z glossary of terms, information on stylistic variations, helpful resources, and a listing of dozens of essential folk music CDs.

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music

Author: Chris Nickson

Publisher: Perigee Trade

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780399530326

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Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso

The Listener's Guide to Music (Yesterday's Classics)

Author: Percy a Scholes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781633341272

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An engaging introduction to the art of listening, starting with folk music familiar to all, and proceeding to the ways musical pieces are constructed from parts. Using a conversational style, the author draws out from the reader the points he wants to make, illustrating them with short musical pieces that appeal to a broad audience. Along the way he gives tips of what to listen for, strengthening his reader's listening skills by such games as 'Camouflaged Tunes.' In the course of the book, Scholes gives a brief history of classical music and introduces many of the noted composers, whetting appetite for further listening opportunities. Musical terms are introduced only as needed, with a full glossary at the end of the book of terms the student is likely to encounter.

The Listener's Guide to Music

Author: Percy A. Scholes

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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New Sounds

Author: John Schaefer

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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All kinds of modern music from minimalism to electronic jazz are described and discographies of each are provided.

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0399530711

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Includes a concise history of Celtic music, entries on noteworthy composers and musicians, listings of classic songs and compositions, a dictionary of Celtic music terminology, and a listing of the fifty most influential Celtic music CDs.

A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

Author: John Corbett

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-03-13

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 022635380X

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In the first book of its kind, John Corbett's A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation provides a how-to manual for the most extreme example of spontaneous improvising: music with no pre-planned material at all. Drawing on over three decades of writing about, presenting, playing, teaching, and studying freely improvised music, Corbett offers an enriching set of tools that show any curious listener how to really listen, and he encourages them to enjoy the human impulse-- found all around the world-- to make up music on the spot.

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music

Author: Timothy K. Smith

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-08-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1440674159

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For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener