Music : A Crash Course,9780823009787

Music : A Crash Course

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ISBN13: 9780823009787
ISBN10: 0823009785
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Random House Inc
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Summary

Each title in this compact series takes a lighthearted look at its subjects and gives readers an entertaining and informative overview.

With this little gem in hand, readers, quickly learn how to tell a symphony from a concerto, a nocturne from an etude, and numerous other keys to appreciating fine music.

Table of Contents

Introduction 8(2)
In the Beginning
Musical Prehistory
10(2)
Pope Gregory Immortalized
Medieral Church Music
12(2)
On the Right Lines
The Birth of Modern Notation
14(2)
Digression: The Dots
Hour Music Is Notated, and Some Other Technical Stuff
16(2)
The Devil Has the Best Tunes
Medieral Music Outside the Church
18(2)
At Last---a Composer!
The Beginnings of Polyphony
20(2)
Ars Nova
Fourteenth-Century France
22(2)
Polyphony Spreads like the Plague
Ars Nora in the Rest of Europe
24(2)
The Italian Job
The High Renaissance
26(2)
Let's Dance
Instrumental Music
28(2)
Gloriana
England's Golden Age
30(2)
Birth in Venice
Dynamic Stereo!
32(2)
The Fat Lady Sings
The Emergence of Opera
34(2)
Digression
Getting It Together
36(2)
Overture and Beginners, Please
Italy
38(2)
The Okay Chorale
Germany and the Netherlands
40(2)
The French Connection
Lully Goes to Court
42(2)
Britannia Rules the Staves
The Baroque in England
44(2)
Sonatas and Concertos
Italian Instrumental Music
46(2)
Eins, Zwei, Drei...
Late Baroque in Germany
48(2)
A Musical Upbringing
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Life
50(2)
The Well-Tempered Musician
Johann Sebastian Bach
52(2)
The Harmonious Tunesmith
Handel's Instrumental Music
54(2)
Hallelujah!
Handel's Choral Music
56(2)
Digression
Seated One Day at the Keyboard...
58(2)
Enlightenment
From Baroque to Classical
60(2)
Classical Classical Music
Austria
62(2)
Tea and Symphony
Haydn and Patronage
64(2)
Papa Haydn
Haydn's Mature Works
66(2)
Digression
Forms and Genres
68(2)
Who's a Clever Boy, Then?
Young Mozart
70(2)
Mozart Goes Freelance
The Mature Mozart
72(2)
Angry Young Man
Beethoven, Part One
74(2)
Heroic Beethoven
The Late Ludwig Van
76(2)
Take Me to Your Lieder
Cue for a Song
78(2)
Man, I'm Really Expressing Myself
Romanticism: An Overview
80(2)
Digression
Tools of the Trade
82(2)
How Romantic!
Early Romantics
84(2)
Brilliant!
The Virtuosi
86(2)
Fantastic!
Berlioz
88(2)
A Classical Romantic
Brahms
90(2)
A Night at the Opera
Nineteenth-Century Italy
92(2)
All Night at the Opera
Wagner
94(2)
Bigger and Better?
The Late Romantics
96(2)
Digression
A Bunch of Keys
98(2)
Some More-isms and an -ality or Two
Reaction to Romanticism
100(2)
Quite a Handful
Nationalism in Russia
102(2)
The Old Folk at Home
Nationalism Elsewhere
104(2)
Making a Good Impression
France
106(2)
Three in a Row...
The Second Viennese School
108(2)
...And One of a Kind
Strarinsky
110(2)
Collectors' Items
Hungary
112(2)
The French Connection II
Les Six
114(2)
The Wild West
United States
116(2)
Comrades
Behind the Iron Curtain
118(2)
Loose Ends
A Few More Odds and Ends
120(2)
Digression
Electrifying!
122(2)
The End of Time, and After
Messiaen and His Pupils
124(2)
Anything Goes...
Noise, Chance, and Silence
126(2)
Complications
Textures and Complexity
128(2)
'Tis a Gift to Be Simple
Minimalism
130(2)
Where Do We Go from Here?
The Future of Classical Music
132(2)
Learning the Lingo 134(2)
The Art of Listening 136(2)
Performers and Conductors 138(2)
Chronology 140(2)
Index 142(2)
Photographic Credits 144

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