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In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
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352 pages : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, defines their importance to the musical canon, and places them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context. The nineteenth title in DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, The Classical Music Book combines accessible, authoritative text with bold explanatory graphics to make the subject of classical...
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210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?
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In classical mood volume 9
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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 listener's guide (25 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 17 cm).
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The four seasons : Autumn / Antonio Vivaldi -- Chant sans paroles No. 3, Opus 2 / Pyotr Cchaikovsky --Autumn / Cecile Chaminade -- The Victorian kitchen garden suite : Mists / Paul Reade -- Lyric pieces No. 1, opus 12 : Arietta / Edvard Grieg -- Piano concerto No. 23 in A J 488 : /second Movement ./ Wolfgang amadeus Mozart -- evening rhapsody / Joachim Raff -- Cello concerto : First movement ( excerpt) / sir Edward Elgar -- A London symphony / second...
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viii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
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What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers. --Publisher.
What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across...
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x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week")...
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For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
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In classical mood volume 15
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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (25 pages : 17 x 17 cm).
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English
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By...
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1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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At first, ten-year-old Christoph resents the eccentric boarder who enters his home, but slowly he comes to understand the torment of Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness, and appreciate his genius and the beauty of his music.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explore the music of Copland and the cityscapes, landscapes, and social and political developments that shaped it"--Container.
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