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Books : The Rough Guide to Classical Music (Rough Guide Music Guides)
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The Rough Guide to Classical Music (Rough Guide Music Guides) by: Joe (ed) Staines List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £11.04 You Save: £5.95 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 780.922 EAN: 9781843532477 ISBN: 1843532476 Label: Rough Guides Manufacturer: Rough Guides Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: July 28, 2005 Publisher: Rough Guides Studio: Rough Guides Sales Rank: 66832 Related Items:
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 Rating: - If you need this book then get itWhat you get in this book is a thorough and inclusive guide to classical music, composers and recordings of their works that's tailored to the last millimetre for the beginner classical music lover. I really appreciate the passion that comes across in the writing. Other classical guides can be clinical, only liking music if it's well recorded or scrupulously performed. Here, the authors aren't afraid to say that the music simply moved them. This enthusiasm rubs off onto the reader. I found the book summarises too much. Everything is a summary, in fact, and while there's sometimes a lot of depth (in the boxouts in particular), I found myself wishing the authors would spend just a few more lines discussing a particular piece. But ... Read More: Rating: - Informative, exciting, and positively opinionatedThe fourth edition of this invaluable guide is packed with information on classical music and should appeal to the novice and the longtime enthusiast - fact, anecdote, explanations of musical styles, explorations of musical forms, biographies and assessments of leading composers and musicians. It's an exciting, entertaining, informative, stimulating smorgasbord of a book which you can browse, read, use as reference material, or employ to settle arguments. It may, however, start as many arguments as it settles, for the material here does not sit on the fence. The assessments of various composers will fuel the ire of some fans … and bring a smile to the faces of others. This is information and professional opinion, not gospel. ... Read More: Rating: - The best place to start to explore classical musicThis book is invaluable for those who have a limited knowledge of classical music and want to expand their listening repertoire. It is a compendium of information on over two hundred classical composers and their works. In addition to the information presented by composer, a number of boxes explore themes as diverse as "What is a Fugue?" (under Bach), "The Cult of the Conductor" (under Mahler) and "The Crisis of Tonality" (under Schoenberg). The choice of composers is excellent - of course when the number is limited, one can always gripe about the favourites that have been left out. The accounts are written in a lively, up-beat style that does not compromise the fidelity of the information. Each composer is covered by an introductory section that ... Read More: |
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