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30-Second Classical Music
The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more
30-Second Classical Music
The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute
About this book
Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you only have 30 seconds, there is time – using this book – to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Our early ancestors understood pitch and rhythm, 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 programme 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.
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INDEX
A
a capella 32, 43
abstract or absolute music 86, 98, 110, 122
Academy of Ancient Music 23
Adams, John 146
Allegri 42, 43
Alsop, Marin 114
Andriessen, Louis 146
Ars antiqua 14, 28
Ars nova 14, 28
atonal music 111
Auric, Georges 134
B
Bach, Johann Sebastian 23, 54, 57, 62, 68, 70, 92, 122, 148, 149, 150
cello suites 62, 148, 149
ballet 118, 138, 140, 142
baroque 33, 44, 48, 49, 50, 48, 66, 68, 70, 78, 122, 124, 149
Bartók, Béla 111, 126, 134
basso continuo 48
Bayreuth Festival 90, 91, 104
BBC Proms 6, 22, 56, 11...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance
- Baroque
- Classical
- The Nineteenth Century
- The Late Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Centuries
- The Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries
- Resources
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page