The Classical Music Book

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DK LONDON PROJECT EDITOR Sam Kennedy SENIOR ART EDITOR Gillian Andrews SENIOR EDITOR Victoria Heyworth-Dunne US EDITOR Jennette ...

DR. STEVE COLLISSON, CONSULTANT British cellist, lecturer, and examiner Dr. Steve Collisson has taught at the Royal Birmingham C ...

12 INTRODUCTION EARLY MUSIC 1000– 22 Psalmody is the weapon of the monk Plainchant, Anonymous 24 Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la Microlo ...

7 80 The new Orpheus of our times Concerti grossi, Op. 6, Arcangelo Corelli 82 The uniting of the French and Italian styles must ...

8 150 No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy Die schöne Müllerin, Franz Schubert 156 Music is like a dre ...

9 222 Spanish music with a universal accent Iberia, Isaac Albéniz 223 A wonderful maze of rhythmical dexterities El sombrero de ...

CONTEMPORARY 298 Sound is the vocabulary of nature Symphonie pour un homme seul, Pierre Schaeffer/Pierre Henry 302 I can’t under ...

11 FOREWORD Music has a certain magic. It can transport us to a different world, drive us to dance, or remind us of lost loved o ...

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A vital part of human culture, at least since Neolithic times, music has been a feature of every civilization, as cave paintings ...

movement, the Renaissance. As the taboo surrounding secular music disappeared, composers expressed themselves more freely, and t ...

Romanticism was essentially a Germanic movement, yet its emphasis on the individual provoked a wave of nationalist composers who ...

A feature of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods was the system of major-minor tonality in which a key note, called the ...

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