A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's 'What Makes It Great' Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece--which can be heard on the book's web site--transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history easy to grasp no matter whatyour musical background. Explores the musical styles and genius of great classical composers, including Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, andDebussy Features an accompanying web site where you can see, hear, and download each short masterpiece and all of the book's musical examples Introduces you in depth to popular pieces from the classical repertoire, including 'Spring'from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), 'Dove Sono' from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), and 'Trepak' from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky) Written by acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianistRob Kapilow: 'You could practically see the light bulbs going on above people's heads' (The Philadelphia Inquirer); 'Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what hedoes' (The Boston Globe); 'A wonderful guy who brings music alive!' (Katie Couric) This book, along with the music on the companion web site, is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in classical music, whether first-time listener, experienced concertgoer or performing musician, offering an entree intothe world of eighteen great composers and a collection of individual masterpieces spanning almost two hundred years. INDICE: Acknowledgments. How to Use the Website. Chapter 1. Introduction. To know one thing well. Chapter 2. Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Spring from The Four Seasons, Movement 1. Chapter 3. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Invention No. 1 from the Two-Part Inventions (1723). Chapter 4. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah. Chapter 5. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn String Quartet op. 76 no. 1 Mvmt. 3. Chapter 6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro. Chapter 7. Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827). Waldstein Sonata Movement 1. Chapter 8. Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Erlkönig. Chapter 9. Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849). A-Minor Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4. Chapter 10. Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Traümeri from Kinderscenen. Chapter 11. Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Transcendental Etude in A minor. Chapter 12. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Scherzo from the String Octet. Chapter 13. Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Prelude to Tristan and Isolde. Chapter 14. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). De miei bollenti spiriti from La Traviata. Chapter 15. Giaccampo Puccini (1858-1924). Un bel di vedremo from Madama Butterfly. Chapter 16. Brahms (1883-1897). A-Major Intermezzo, op. 118 no. 2. Chapter 17. Antonin DvoYák (1841-1904). Slavonic Dance op. 46 no. 8. Chapter 18.Pyotr IIYich Tchaijovsky (1840-1893). Trepak from The Nutcracker Suite. Chapter 19. Claude DeBussy (1862-1918). Des Pas sur la neige (Footsteps in the snow) from Preludes Book I. Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-55092-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 17/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés