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The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Author : Joe Staines

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 691 pages

File Size : 30,7 MB

Release : 2010-05-17

Category : Music

ISBN : 1405383216

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Book Description

This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.



Classical Music

Author : Duncan Clark

Publisher : Rough Guides

Page : 630 pages

File Size : 41,26 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Music

ISBN : 9781858287218

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Book Description

Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.



Country Music

Author : Kurt Wolff

Publisher : Rough Guides

Page : 612 pages

File Size : 46,28 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Country music

ISBN : 9781858285344

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Book Description

Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.



All Music Guide to Classical Music

Author : Chris Woodstra

Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation

Page : 1620 pages

File Size : 22,2 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780879308650

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Book Description

Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.



Rough Ideas

Author : Stephen Hough

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 40,39 MB

Release : 2020-02-04

Category : Music

ISBN : 0374721408

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Book Description

A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.



The Rough Guide to Rock

Author : Peter Buckley

Publisher : Rough Guides

Page : 1234 pages

File Size : 13,84 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Dictionaries

ISBN : 1858284570

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Book Description

Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.



World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author : Simon Broughton

Publisher : Rough Guides

Page : 708 pages

File Size : 23,68 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Music

ISBN : 9781858286365

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Book Description

The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.



The Rough Guide Book of Brain Training

Author : Dr Gareth Moore

Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 13,82 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 1848365187

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Book Description

A puzzle book designed to give your brain a thorough work-out through a 100-day program of puzzles and exercises.



The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Author : Rough Guides

Publisher : Rough Guides UK

Page : 691 pages

File Size : 28,80 MB

Release : 2010-05-03

Category : Music

ISBN : 1848366779

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Book Description

The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. For novices and experts alike, the fully updated fifth edition features contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann and Widor, the 19th century organ composer of 'Toccata' wedding fame, as well as dozens more works added for existing composers. You'll find an new 'Top 10's' section with accessible introductory listings including the Top 10 operas and the Top 10 symphonies plus new essay boxes on topics such as "Baroque - a style or a period?" and "The clarinet comes of age". The Rough Guide to Classical Music features fresh and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and reissues as well as more than 150 illustrations of composers and performers, including a rare archive of photos.



The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal

Author : Essi Berelian

Publisher :

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 42,7 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Music

ISBN :

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Book Description

A comprehensive guide to heavy metal music that profiles three hundred bands and artists, describes all the sub-genres, highlights memorable performances, and offers a detailed discography.