Classical music 101 : [a complete guide to learning and loving classical music]

CD Audiobook

Classical music 101 : [a complete guide to learning and loving classical music] / by Fred Plotkin.

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive guide to discovering the glories of classical music, based on the fundamental principle of developing the skills to truly listen. In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introducing listeners to more than one hundred great works and profiling in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and Mahler. Plotkin illustrates how each piece of music possesses its own sound world, which is created by the unique style, voice, and vision of each composer, and made even more distinct by every musician who plays it. He defines major musical terms, and makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated. Conversations with important musicians offer fascinating insights into the art.

Contents:

First hearing, developing your listening skills
Making music
Some thoughts on the recordings used in classical music 101
Voices of the orchestra
Colors and pictures, more thoughts about listening
Second hearing, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Theory, and practice
Symphony
Conversation with James Levine
Attending a live performance
The piano
Violin
Strings along, music for viola, cello, and double bass
Woodwinds
Brass family
Percussion, bells, whistles, thunder, and a beating heart
Early music, from these roots
Singer's art, lieder and vocal music
Life every voice, music with chorus
Feeling music, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Mount Olympus and Elysian fields, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Coda, some final notes
Discography for classical music 101
Resources for the classical music lover
Traveling to hear classical music, concert halls and theaters around the world.

Item details

ISBN: 0786187336
ISBN: 9780786187331
Physical Description: 16 audio discs (approximately 19 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audiobooks, [2004]
Copyright: ℗2004

Contents / Notes

General Note:: Subtitle from container.

Unabridged.

Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:: First hearing, developing your listening skills
Making music
Some thoughts on the recordings used in classical music 101
Voices of the orchestra
Colors and pictures, more thoughts about listening
Second hearing, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Theory, and practice
Symphony; Conversation with James Levine
Attending a live performance
The piano
Violin
Strings along, music for viola, cello, and double bass
Woodwinds
Brass family
Percussion, bells, whistles, thunder, and a beating heart
Early music, from these roots
Singer's art, lieder and vocal music
Life every voice, music with chorus
Feeling music, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Mount Olympus and Elysian fields, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Coda, some final notes; Discography for classical music 101; Resources for the classical music lover
Traveling to hear classical music, concert halls and theaters around the world.
Participant or Performer Note:: Read by Fred Plotkin.