Williamsburg Regional Library

Know-it-all classical music, the 50 most significant genres, composers & forms, each explained in under a minute, editor, Dr. Joanne Cormac ; foreword, David Pickard ; contributors, Robert Adlington [and twelve others]

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Know-it-all classical music

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editor, Dr. Joanne Cormac ; foreword, David Pickard ; contributors, Robert Adlington [and twelve others]

Know-it-all

the 50 most significant genres, composers & forms, each explained in under a minute

"Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you have only one minute, there is time - using Know It All: Classical Music - to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Our early ancestors understood pitch and rhythm and the basic tools that have been worked and ordered by composers and performers over the past 400 years into an extraordinary body of music written for soloists, chamber musicians, and entire orchestras. Today, everyone has access to a prodigy of classical music, which - far from being traditional or elitist - is alive and magical. From plainsong to program music, appreciate the magnitude and majesty, the passion and the pathos of sounds that have the power to stir our emotions to great joy, or infinite sadness. Here's music to your ears."--provided by Amazon.com

The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- Baroque -- Classical -- The Nineteenth Century -- The late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries -- The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

adult

Classical music