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Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780879309176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects reviews for one thousand enduring classic rock albums ranging from the extremely popular to more obscure works.
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780879309169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains brief reviews of over five hundred old school rap and hip-hop albums, as well as albums from the 1960s and 70s that provided inspiration for the development of rap; arranged alphabetically, some with cover art.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1508
ISBN-13: 9780879306274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1430
ISBN-13: 9780879306533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.
Author: Aaron Copland
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1101513144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum). 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 readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
Author: John Mauceri
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0525520651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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? A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience--a unique one each and every time--allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1429932880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author: Robert Greenberg
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781101504550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of the most trusted names in continuing education-the knowledge you need to unlock "the most abstract and sublime of all the arts." Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to edify, enlighten, and stir the soul. In How to Listen to Great Music, Professor Robert Greenberg, a composer and music historian, presents a comprehensive, accessible guide to how music has mirrored Western history, that will transform the experience of listening for novice and long-time listeners alike. You will learn how to listen for key elements in different genres of music - from madrigals to minuets and from sonatas to symphonies-along with the enthralling history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. You'll get answers to such questions as Why was Beethoven so important' How did the Enlightenment change music' And what's so great about opera anyway' How to Listen to Great Music will let you finally hear what you've been missing. Watch a Video.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1472
ISBN-13: 9780879307172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers more than eighteen thousand recordings and more than 1,700 musicians from across the jazz spectrum and includes a history of the different types of jazz, the evolution of jazz instruments, and essays on styles.
