UID:
almafu_9960800264802883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 949 pages)
ISBN:
0-300-24272-7
Content:
An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950 Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader. Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer's intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.
Note:
Introduction --
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) --
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Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) --
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Samuel Barber (1910-81) --
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945) --
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) --
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Alban Berg (1885-1935) --
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Hector Berlioz (1803-69) --
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Georges Bizet (1838-75) --
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Alexander Borodin (1833-87) --
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Johannes Brahms (1833-97) --
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Benjamin Britten (1913-76) --
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Max Bruch (1838-1920) --
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Anton Bruckner (1824-96) --
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Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-94) --
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Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin (1810-49) --
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Aaron Copland (1900-90) --
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Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) --
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918) --
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Frederick Delius (1862-1934) --
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Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) --
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) --
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Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) --
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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) --
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César Franck (1822-90) --
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George Gershwin (1898-1937) --
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-57) --
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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) --
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George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel) (1685-1759) --
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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) --
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Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) --
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934) --
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Charles Ives (1874-1954) --
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Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) --
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Franz Liszt (1811-86) --
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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) --
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Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) --
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) --
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Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) --
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Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) --
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) --
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Modest Musorgsky (1839-81) --
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Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) --
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) --
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) --
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) --
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) --
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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) --
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) --
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) --
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) --
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828) --
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Robert Schumann (1810-56) --
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Alexander Scriabin (Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin) (1872-1915) --
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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) --
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Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) --
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Bedřich Smetana (1824-84) --
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Richard Strauss (1864-1949) --
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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) --
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) --
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Michael Tippett (1905-98) --
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Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) --
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) --
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) --
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Richard Wagner (1813-83) --
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William Walton (1902-83) --
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Carl Maria Von Weber (1786-1826) --
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Anton Webern (1883-1945).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-12069-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.12987/9780300242720
