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The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classical Music
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Features
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications September 1, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823076989
ISBN-13: 978-0823076987
Product Dimensions:
11.3 x 10.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
Book Description
Organized chronologically by musical era, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible volume contains a dazzling display of information, analysis, and color, adding up to a major new learning tool and ongoing reference source to inform and entertain students, scholars, and all lovers of classical music. Each chapter features an introduction to the period, its key composers and other personalities, musical styles, forms, and instruments. Six thematic strands developed throughout the book are identified by a series of icons at the top of each spread. These elucidating themes-designed to expand the reader's knowledge of various aspects of classical music and provide a context within each era-are "Women in Music," "Arts & Culture," "Inside the Music," "The Voice," "Performance," and "Influences." A Listening Guide for each era covers details of orchestration, instrumentation, timing, and full historical background, and an extensive discography and bibliography are also included.
About The Author
Stanley Sadie, editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the unsurpassed musical reference source, was a professor at Trinity College of Music in London for ten years, music critic of The Times (London) for seventeen years, and music consultant to some twenty-two television programs. Widely considered one of the world's most eminent authorities in music publishing, he is based in London, England. Vladimir Ashkenazy is a world-renowned virtuoso pianist and conductor.
Reader Reviews
I have never read a book like this one before. So well written and illustrated. It is forwarded by Vladimir Ashkenazy. The book starts with a section about music in non-western civilizations, there it explains the role of music in early cultures of the world, From Ancient Egypt, to China; from the Ancient American cultures, to Africa; and from Oceania to the near east to the Holy Roman Empire, this section of the book has it all. Then the book is divided in by order of musical periods thru the ages. Starting with the medieval era, it lists key events of this period, starting in the 800's. It mentions and tells about the great names of the era in music, including de Vitry(1291-1361) and Machaut(1300-1377). It also explains such teaching devices as the 'Guidonian Hand'. Then comes the Renaissance, here, it explains the rise of humanism, it speaks also of major events of the time. It also tells a bit about the Reinassance courts of Europe and the composers of the time:Cristobal de Morales(1500-53) Thomas Morley(1557-1602), Orlande de Lasuss(1532-94). This section also speaks of the rise of instruments. One to the Baroque where the where we are start seeing the the start of new musical forms and procedures, sucha as the masque, the music drama, the French grand motet.Also music in tenary form etc. The section on the classical period again famous composers and musicians, explinations of classicism, rococco, and the instruments of the time.More on composers, specially Mozart and Beethoven.On to the the romantic period where we start to see development in musical instruments, and styles, we also see how the orchestra gets bigger. Finally, the book comes to the early and late 20th century. The book does a wonderful job, pictures and tales of 20th century composers. This is the first book that I have where I find a picture of John Adams and Sofia Gubaidulina in in the same book, in this book, for the first time also, our contemporary composers are treated with great respect, and as equal to their counterparts of the bygone ages. I picture that I like very much is in PG.324 where Cage, and Boulez shake hands in fron of Massien. The art work is of the best quality.This is indeed a good book that I recomend to every classical music lover, and friend. The amazon.com price is so affordable, and competitive.
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by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Stanley Sadie
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