DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). — 513 p. Serie: Eyewithess companions An essential guide to more than 1,000 years of classical music. Classical Music covers 300 composers, includes analysis of 40 major works, and looks at every musical genre, style, and form, including instruments, ensembles, and conductors. These lavishly illustrated handbooks cover everything you need to...
New York: DK Publishing, 2012. — 354 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7566-9256-8. Introducing Classical Music. The Elements of Classical Music. Classical Music Instruments. Classical Music in Performance. The History of Classical Music. Early Music (1000–1600). The Baroque Era (1600–1750). The Classical Era (1750–1820). The Romantic Era (1810–1920). Romantic Opera (1810–1920). National...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 426 p. — ISBN: 978-1843837268. What is classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. Each music is analysed in terms of its modes, scales, and theory; its instruments, forms, and aesthetic goals; its historical...
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1980. — 750 s. Przewodnik przeznaczony jest dla słuchaczy koncertowych, radiowych, posiadaczy domowych płytotek i dla wszystkich miłośników muzyki. Daje on przegląd najwybitniejszych i najczęściej u nas wykonywanych pozycji z zakresu polskiej i obcej literatury symfonicznej, koncertowej i oratoryjnej od wieku XVII po czasy najnowsze....
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1991. — 1202 s. Przewodnik przeznaczony jest dla słuchaczy koncertowych, radiowych, posiadaczy domowych płytotek i dla wszystkich miłośników muzyki. Daje on przegląd najwybitniejszych i najczęściej u nas wykonywanych pozycji z zakresu polskiej i obcej literatury symfonicznej, koncertowej i oratoryjnej od wieku XVII po czasy najnowsze....
2nd ed. — Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. — XXII, 662 p. 1st ed. — 1954. This book has its origin in the author's attempts — now continued for a quarter of a century — to provide helpful comment on the compositions performed by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra at its regular subscription concerts. The book is not offered, however, merely as a prideful record...
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1973. — 649 s. Przewodnik po ponad 200 najsłynniejszych operach i dramatach muzycznych. Hasła - oprócz libretta opery - zawierają życiorys kompozytora, charakterystykę jego twórczości, omówienie poszczególnych oper, a także metrykę opery.
London: University of California press, 2007. — 252 p. It is a book that treats classical music from Bach to Tchaikovsky, Chopin to Ligeti, as a living art that still has much to contribute to the art of living. What can be done about the state of classical music? Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music,...
Hints and suggestions to untaught lovers of the art. New York: Charles Scribner'S Sons, 1897. — 182 p. Summary by Sarah Jennings : This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics. From Wikipedia : Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854-1923) was...
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1977. — 744 s. Przewodnik operetkowy Lucjana Kydryńskiego kryje w sobie o wiele więcej, niż zapowiada tytuł i nawet jego uzupełnienie: "wodewil - operetka - musical". W tym obszernym kompendium wiadomości o wesołym teatrze muzycznym przedstawił autor ponad 150 historycznie ważnych lub najczęściej wykonywanych dzieł, począwszy od...
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1994. — 668 s. Przewodnik operetkowy Lucjana Kydryńskiego kryje w sobie o wiele więcej, niż zapowiada tytuł i nawet jego uzupełnienie: "wodewil - operetka - musical". W tym obszernym kompendium wiadomości o wesołym teatrze muzycznym przedstawił autor ponad 150 historycznie ważnych lub najczęściej wykonywanych dzieł, począwszy od...
Michael Joseph, 2018. — 56 p. — ISBN: 978-0718187866. Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Twentieth-Century Classical Music is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the Western classical music that captured the defining moments of the contemporary world. Written by The Observer's classical music critic Fiona Maddocks, Twentieth-Century Classical...
Faber & Faber, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0571329380. How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical...
Faber & Faber, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0571329380. How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. — VIII, 579 p. — ISBN: 0-19-504041-4 This is a guide through the world of Western orchestral music, designed for the use of non-musicians. It presupposes no experience of any kind, and is meant to be complete in itself. It is basic in its approach but intends to give the reader a thorough if informal «course» in the workings and overall...
The University Of Michigan Press, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0-472-02811-5. History of chamber music, outstanding composers, national schools, major works. The Nature of Early Chamber Music. The Crystallization of Genres during the Golden Age of Chamber Music. Classical Chamber Music with Wind Instruments. The Chamber Music of Beethoven. The Emergence of the Wind Quintet....
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 353 p. — ISBN10: 019046254X. — ISBN13: 978-0190462543. This book answers questions from real classical music lovers about things they have always wondered but didn't know whom to ask. The information in this book is not readily found in music history or appreciation books, nor can it be found on line. Questions explored are: Do string players in...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 223 p. ISBN: 9780199766451 (hardback). ISBN: 9780199766468 (pbk.). Subjects : Music - Philosophy and aesthetics. Composers with disabilities. Musicians with disabilities. Music - Psychological aspects. Musical analysis. Composers with Disabilities and the Critical Reception of their Music - Musical Narratives of Disability Overcome: Beethoven -...
DK Publishing, 2018. — 354 p. 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...
DK Publishing, 2018. — 352 p. — (Big Ideas Simply Explained). — ISBN: 978-1465473424. 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...
Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1973. — 359 s. Przewodnik baletowy Ireny Turskiej - autorki licznych prac z dziedziny baletu - obejmuje olbrzymi zakres twórczości choreograficznej. Obok tzw. repertuaru żelaznego uwzględnione zostały w Przewodniku najwybitniejsze dzieła z okresu powojennego oraz prawie wszystkie powojenne polskie balety. Każde z ponad 140 haseł podaje...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — ISBN: 0195083490; ISBN13: 9780195083491. Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, rehearsals, and performances, important liner notes, and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The collection includes thirty years of...
6th Edition. — Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2011.— 437 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4390-8347-5. Listening to Western Music helps you to develop and refine your listening skills. With Wright, you will learn to move comfortably from the classroom to the concert hall, listening to classical and popular music with more confidence and enjoyment.
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