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The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

By Paul Griffiths

Book information

Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2004
ISBN
9780141909769, 0141909765
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3786837 bytes)
Pages
912\0
Time added
2020-03-16 15:53:00

Description

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.

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