The Classical Music Book

DIRECTORY 339 widely seen as his most successful work. A Modernist in style, Reimann is also influenced by Indian music. JOHN TA ...

A cappella Unaccompanied singing by a soloist or group. Alto The highest male and lowest female voice; also a term describing an ...

GLOSSARY Dynamics Differences in volume of a piece or section of music; also refers to the notation system of markings on sheet ...

or sharp the note anymore, or to override sharps or flats in the work’s key signature. Obbligato An accompaniment that is import ...

Tonality System of major and minor scales and keys; forms the basis of all Western music from the 17th century until Schoenberg ...

Page numbers in bold refer to main entries; those in italics refer to captions. 1 + 1 (Glass) 312 4 ́ 33 ̋ (Cage) 304 A The Abdu ...

INDEX The Charlatan (Haas) 263 Charpentier, Marc-Antoine 70, 333 A Child of Our Time (Tippett) 218, 284–285, 284 Chin, Unsuk 301 ...

Franck, César 163, 335 Frauenliebe und leben (Schumann) 155 Frescobaldi, Girolamo 333 fugues 48, 50, 108 –111, 264 Futurist mani ...

Milhaud, Darius 248, 262, 336 Mingus, Charles 261 minimalism 251, 312–313, 320–321 Minnelieder 35 Minnesinger 35 The Minotaur (B ...

Neo-romanticism 326 neoclassicism 248, 251, 282, 286 Nepomuceno, Alberto 280 neumes 24, 31 Neuwirth, Olga 328 Newman, John Henry ...

song of Seikilos 22 Songs on the Death of Children (Mahler) 200 Songs from Madagascar (Ravel) 198 Songs of a Wayfarer (Mahler) 2 ...

Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Stravinsky) 272 Symphony in E-Flat Major (Stamitz) 117 Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven) 138, 265 Symph ...

351 QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS EARLY MUSIC 22 St. John of the Ladder 24 Guido d’Arezzo 26 Hildegard of Bingen 28 St. Augustine 32 Walthe ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Smita Mathur, Riji Raju, and Nonita Saha for editorial assistance, and Ha ...