Essential Canon of Classical Music

Name: Essential Canon of Classical Music
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ISBN: 9780865476646

ISBN-10: 0865476640

ISBN-13: 9780865476646

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Dubal

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The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem overwhelming at times. In The Essential Canon of Classical Music, David Dubal comes to the aid of the struggling listener and provides a cultural-literacy handbook for classical music. Dubal identifies the 240 composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music and offers a comprehensive, chronological guide to their lives and works. He has searched beyond the traditional…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 800
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan Ages


Guillaume de Machaut


Guillaume Dufay


Josquin Desprez


Thomas Tallis


Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


Orlande de Lassus


William Byrd


Tomas Luis de Victoria


Giovanni Gabrieli


Carlo Gesualdo


John Dowland


Claudio Monteverdi


Gregorio Allegri



The Age of the Baroque


George Frideric Handel


Johann Sebastian Bach


Domenico Scarlatti


Other Baroque Composers


Girolamo Frescobaldi


Heinrich Schutz


Jean-Baptiste Lully


Dietrich Buxtehude


Arcangelo Corelli


Henry Purcell


Alessandro Scarlatti


Francois Couperin


Tomaso Albinoni


Antonio Vivaldi


Jan Zelenka


Georg Philipp Telemann


Jean-Philippe Rameau


Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello



The Age of Classicism


Christoph Willibald Gluck


Franz Joseph Haydn


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Ludwig van Beethoven


Other Classical Composers


Francesco Geminiani


Giuseppe Tartini


Thomas Arne


Giovanni Battista Pergolesi


William Boyce


Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach


Pietro Nardini


Antonio Soler


Luigi Boccherini


Domenico Cimarosa


Muzio Clementi


Luigi Cherubini


Francois-Adrien Boieldieu


Johann Nepomuk Hummel


Fernando Sor


Mauro Giuliani



The Romantic Age


Nicolo Paganini


Carl Maria von Weber


Gioachino Rossini


Franz Schubert


Gaetano Donizetti


Vincenzo Bellini


Hector Berlioz


Felix Mendelssohn


Frederic Chopin


Robert Schumann


Franz Liszt


Richard Wagner


Giuseppe Verdi


Charles Gounod


Jacques Offenbach


Cesar Franck


Bedrich Smetana


Anton Bruckner


Johann Strauss II


Johannes Brahms


Alexander Borodin


Camille Saint-Saens


Georges Bizet


Modest Mussorgsky


Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky


Antonin Dvorak


Edvard Grieg


Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


Gabriel Faure


Leos Janacek


Sir Edward Elgar


Giacomo Puccini


Hugo Wolf


Gustav Mahler


Frederick Delius


Claude Debussy


Richard Strauss


Jean Sibelius


Other Romantic Composers


Daniel-Francois Auber


Giacomo Meyerbeer


Franz Berwald


Albert Lortzing


Adolphe Adam


Mikhail Glinka


Otto Nicolai


Charles-Valentin Alkan


Franz von Suppe


Edouard Lalo


Louis Moreau Gottschalk


Karl Goldmark


Amilcare Ponchielli


Henryk Wieniawski


Leo Delibes


Mily Balakirev


Max Bruch


Hermann Goetz


Emmanuel Chabrier


Arrigo Boito


Sir Arthur Sullivan


Jules Massenet


Charles-Marie Widor


Pablo de Sarasate


Henri Duparc


Vincent d'Indy


Engelbert Humperdinck


John Philip Sousa


Anatoly Liadov


Ernest Chausson


Ruggiero Leoncavallo


Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov


Gustave Charpentier


Edward MacDowell


Isaac Albeniz


Charles Martin Loeffler


Anton Arensky


Pietro Mascagni


Alexander Glazunov


Carl Nielsen


Paul Dukas



The Age of Modernism


Alexander Scriabin


Ralph Vaughan Williams


Sergei Rachmaninoff


Arnold Schoenberg


Maurice Ravel


Bela Bartok


Igor Stravinsky


Alban Berg


Sergei Prokofiev


Paul Hindemith


George Gershwin


Francis Poulenc


Aaron Copland


Dmitri Shostakovich


Benjamin Britten


Other Modern Composers


Erik Satie


Ferruccio Busoni


Umberto Giordano


Enrique Granados


Scott Joplin


Hans Pfitzner


Albert Roussel


Franz Lehar


Alexander von Zemlinsky


Max Reger


Gustav Holst


Charles Ives


Josef Suk


Reinhold Gliere


Fritz Kreisler


John Alden Carpenter


Manuel de Falla


Erno von Dohnanyi


Ottorino Respighi


Frank Bridge


Nikolai Medtner


Ernest Bloch


George Enescu


Karol Szymanowski


Joaquin Turina


Percy Grainger


Zoltan Kodaly


Anton Webern


Sir Arnold Bax


Alfredo Casella


Edgard Varese


Charles Tomlinson Griffes


George Butterworth


Marcel Dupre


Heitor Villa-Lobos


Jacques Ibert


Bohuslav Martinu


Frank Martin


Arthur Honegger


Ferde Grofe


Darius Milhaud


Walter Piston


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco


Carl Orff


Virgil Thomson


Howard Hanson


Roger Sessions


Erich Wolfgang Korngold


Roy Harris


Silvestre Revueltas


Carlos Chavez


George Antheil


Kurt Weill


Harry Partch


Gerald Finzi


Joaquin Rodrigo


Maurice Durufle


Sir William Walton


Aram Khachaturian


Dmitri Kabalevsky


Sir Michael Tippett


Elliott Carter


Olivier Messiaen


Grazyna Bacewicz


Samuel Barber


Alan Hovhaness


Gian Carlo Menotti


John Cage


Morton Gould


Witold Lutoslawski


George Perle


Milton Babbitt


Alberto Ginastera


Lou Harrison


Leonard Bernstein


Karel Husa


Iannis Xenakis


Gyorgy Ligeti


Ned Rorem


Luciano Berio


Pierre Boulez


Hans Werner Henze


Karlheinz Stockhausen


George Crumb


Toru Takemitsu


Rodion Shchedrin


Krzysztof Penderecki


Sir Peter Maxwell Davies


Alfred Schnittke


Arvo Part