Title:
Classical music : an introduction / Michael Swift.
Author:
Swift, Michael (Publisher)
Publication Information:
New York : Chartwell Books, 2010.
Call Number:
ML200 .S85 2010
Abstract:
"Designed to help those hitherto reluctant to explore the great music bequeathed to us over the past millennium by providing a basic history of the orchestra and its instruments, the great composers and their greatest works."-- Back cover.
ISBN:
9780785827306
Physical Description:
192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. ; 1 sound disc ((76 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Contents:
Book. Introduction -- Timeline -- 1. Early and renaissance music -- Tallis -- Other early and renaissance composers -- 2. Baroque music -- Corelli -- Purcell --Vivaldi -- Handel -- Bach -- Other baroque composers -- 3. The classical period -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Beethoven -- Other classical composers -- 4. The romantic era -- Mendelssohn -- Brahms -- Tchaikovsky -- Wagner -- Mahler -- Puccini --Rachmaninov -- Verdi -- Other Romantic composers -- 5. Modern music -- Elgar -- Britten -- Pärt -- Other modern composers -- 6. The Orchestra -- The key instruments -- Cello -- Clarinet -- Drums -- Flute -- French horn -- Keyboards -- Oboe -- Trumpet -- Tuba -- Violin -- 7. Great symphony orchestras -- Berlin Philharmonic -- Boston Symphony Orchestra -- London Symphony Orchestra -- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Vienna Philharmonic -- 8. Major conductors -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Bernard Haitink -- Herbert Von Karajan -- Sir Simon Rattle -- Arturo Toscanini -- The music on the CD.
Compact disc. 1. Benedicamus Domino, Alleluia from Paschale Mysterium / Anon -- 2. Spem in Alium / Tallis -- 3. Canon in D / Pachelbel -- 4. Dido and Aeneas Dido's Lamen "When I am laid in earth" / Purcell -- 5. Chorale movement No. 10 Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring) from Herz und Mund Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life) / Bach -- 6. The Four Seasons Opus 8 No. 4 in F Minor L'inverno (Winter) 2nd Movement (Largo) / Vivaldi -- 7. Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) / Handel -- 8. Overture to Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Mozart -- 9. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor Opus 67 1st Movement (allegro con brio) / Beethoven -- 10. Violin Concerto in E Minor Opus 64 3rd Movement (allegro motto vivace) / Mendelssohn -- 11. Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) Opus 45 4th Movement / Brahms -- 12. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie): Act III Ritt der Walküren (Ride of the Valkyries) / Wagner -- 13. Swan Lake Opus 20 finale / Tchaikovksy -- 14. Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma") Opus 36 IX Nimrod / Elgar -- 15. The Planets No. 4 Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity / Holst.
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