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How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Greenberg, Robert (Author)
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Greenberg gives novice listeners and longtime classical music buffs alike the knowledge that will transform their listening experiences. Readers will become fluent in the language of music and versed in its enthralling history.
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- Title How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart
- Author Greenberg, Robert (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume, U.S.A.
- Date 2011
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2-0452297087
- ISBN 9780452297081 / 0452297087
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Music appreciation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010050220
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.17
Summary
From one of the most trusted names in continuing education-the knowledge you need to unlock "the most abstract and sublime of all the arts."
Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to edify, enlighten, and stir the soul. In How to Listen to Great Music, Professor Robert Greenberg, a composer and music historian, presents a comprehensive, accessible guide to how music has mirrored Western history, that will transform the experience of listening for novice and long-time listeners alike. You will learn how to listen for key elements in different genres of music - from madrigals to minuets and from sonatas to symphonies-along with the enthralling history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. You'll get answers to such questions as Why was Beethoven so important? How did the Enlightenment change music? And what's so great about opera anyway? How to Listen to Great Music will let you finally hear what you've been missing.
Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to edify, enlighten, and stir the soul. In How to Listen to Great Music, Professor Robert Greenberg, a composer and music historian, presents a comprehensive, accessible guide to how music has mirrored Western history, that will transform the experience of listening for novice and long-time listeners alike. You will learn how to listen for key elements in different genres of music - from madrigals to minuets and from sonatas to symphonies-along with the enthralling history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. You'll get answers to such questions as Why was Beethoven so important? How did the Enlightenment change music? And what's so great about opera anyway? How to Listen to Great Music will let you finally hear what you've been missing.
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- Library Journal, 02/01/2011, Page 62