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Music -- History and criticism.
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Swafford, Jan.
Music appreciation.
Music -- History and criticism.
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Language
of the
spirit
: an
introduction
to
classical
music
/ Jan Swafford.
by
Swafford, Jan.
Basic Books, 2017.
Call #:
781.68 S971L
Subjects
Music
appreciation.
Music
-- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780465097548 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 321 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 304-305) and index.
Contents:
Music
from the beginning. Through the Middle Ages (up to 1400) ; The Renaissance (ca. 1400-1600) -- Baroque. The Baroque period (ca. 1600-1750) ; Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) ; Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) ; George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) ; Further Baroque listening --
Classical
. The
Classical
period (ca. 1750-1830) ; Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ; Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791) ; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Romantic. The Romantic period (ca. 1830-1900) ; Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ; Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) ; Robert Schumann (1810-1856) ; Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) ; Richard Wagner (1813-1883) ; Franz Liszt (1811-1886) ; Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) ; Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ; Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) ; Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ; Further Romantic listening -- Modernism and beyond. The 20th and 21st centuries (ca. 1900-present) ; Claude Debussy (1862-1918) ; Richard Strauss (1864-1949) ; Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ; Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) ; Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) ; Charles Ives (1874-1954) ; Béla Bartók (1881-1945) ; Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) ; Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) ; Aaron Copland (1900-1990) ; György Ligeti (1923-2006) ; Further Modernist listening.
Summary:
For many of us,
classical
music
is something serious, something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings.
Music
scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong:
classical
music
has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western
music
, introduces readers to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their
music
.
Language
of the
Spirit
is essential reading for anyone who has ever wished to know more about this sublime art.
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