A Basic Music Library
A Basic Music Library

Author: Music Library Association

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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Lists 7,000 recordings and 3,000 printed scores coded for different levels of collecting.

The Song Cycle
The Song Cycle

Author: Laura Tunbridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0521896444

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Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

The Rough Guide to Classical Music
The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Author: Joe Staines

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-05-17

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 1405383216

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This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.