Guide to Orchestral Music The Handbook for Non-Musicians

Name: Guide to Orchestral Music The Handbook for Non-Musicians
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ISBN: 9780195040418

ISBN-10: 0195040414

ISBN-13: 9780195040418

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ethan. Mordden

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Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introduction to the symphony and short pieces on the orchestra and musical styles. Mordden goes on to describe, chronologically, over 700 pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Further aids to the reader include two lists of repertory builders and a glossary of musical terms. "Easy and pleasurable to read...a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews

Book details

List price: $34.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/27/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English






How To Use This Book


General Introduction


The Digest Guide for Dilletantes


The Orchestra


Surefire Initiations for Beginners


Classic, Romantic, and Neo: A Guide to Style


A Note on Performing Styles





Antonio Vivaldi


Johann Sebastian Bach


George Frideric Handel


Franz Josef Haydn


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Ludwig van Beethoven


Niccolo Paganini


Carl Maria von Weber


Franz Schubert


Hector Berlioz


Felix Mendelssohn


Frederic Chopin


Robert Schumann


Franz Liszt


Richard Wagner


Cesar Franck


Edouard Lalo


Bedrich Smetana


Anton Bruckner


Carl Goldmark


Alyeksandr Borodin


Johannes Brahms


Camille Saint-Saens


Mily Balakiryef


Georges Bizet


Max Bruch


Modyest Musorksky


Pyotr Chaikofsky


Antonin Dvorak


Edvard Grieg


Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakof


Gabriel Faure


Vincent D'Indy


Leos Janacek


Ernest Chausson


Edward Elgar


Gustav Mahler


Claude Debussy


Frederick Delius


Richard Strauss


Carl Nielsen


Paul Dukas


Alyeksandr Glazunof


Jean Sibelius


Ferruccio Busoni


Albert Roussel


Alyeksandr Skryabin


Ralph Vaughan Williams


Syergyey Rachmaninof


Gustav Holst


Arnold Schonberg


Charles Ives


Maurice Ravel


Reinholt Glier


Manuel de Falla


Carl Ruggles


Erno Dohnanyi


Ottorino Respighi


Ernest Bloch


Bela Bartok


Heitor Villa-Lobos


Zoltan Kodaly


Igor Stravinsky


Anton Webern


Alban Berg


Edgar Varese


Bohuslav Martinu


Jacques Ibert


Syergyey Prokofyef


Arthur Honegger


Darius Milhaud


Walter Piston


Paul Hindemith


Roger Sessions


Virgil Thomson


George Gershwin


Roy Harris


Francis Poulenc


Kurt Weill


Aaron Copland


William Walton


Aram Khatchaturyan


Luigi Dallapiccola


Dmitri Shostakovitch


Olivier Messiaen


Elliott Carter


Samuel Barber


William Schuman


Alan Hovhaness


Benjamin Britten


Leonard Bernstein


Hans Werner Henze


Glossary


Index