The essential canon of classical music. [Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan ages; Age of the baroque, Age of classicism, the romantic age, arge of modernism]
Language: English
Published by New York : North Point Press, 2001, 2001
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xiv, 770 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 086547608X; 9780865476080; 0865476640; 9780865476646; LCCN: 2001-34268 ; LC: MT90; Dewey: 780/.92/2 ; OCLC: 46909282 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism." ; Contents: Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume Dufay Josquin Desprex Thomas Tallis Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Orlande de Lassus William Byrd Tomás Luis de Victoria Giovanni Gabrieli Carlo Gesualdo John Dowland Claudio Monteverdi Gregorio Allegri George Frederic Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Giorlamo Frescobaldi Heinrich Schütz Jean-Baptiste Lully Dietrich Buxtehude Arcangelo Corelli Henry Purcell Alessandro Scarlatti François Couperin Tomaso Albinoni Antonio Vivaldi Jan Zelenka Georg Philipp Telemann Jean-Philippe Rameau Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello Christoph Willibald Gluck Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Francesco Geminiani Giueseppe Tartini Thomas Arne Giovanni battista Pergolesi William Boyce Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Pietro Nardini Antonio Soler Luigi Boccherini Domenico Cimarosa Muzio Clementi luigi Cherubini François-Adrien Boidldieu Johann Nepomuk Hummel Fernando Sor Mauro Giuliani Nicolò Paganini Carl Maria von Weber Gioachimo Rossini Franz Schubert Gaetano Donizetti Vincenzo Bellini Hector Berlioz Felix Mendelssohn Frédéric Chopin Robert Schumann Franz Liszt Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Charles Gounod Jacques Offenbach César Frank Bedrich Smetana Anton Bruckner Johann Strauss II Johannes Brahms Alexander Borodin Camille Saint-Saëns Georges Bizet Modest Mussorgsky Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky Antonín Dvorák Edvard Grieg Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Gabriel Fauré Leos Janácek Edward Elgar Giacomo Puccini-- Hugo Wolf Gustav Mahler Frederick Delius Claude Debussy Richard Strauss Jean Sibelius Daniel-François Auber Giacomo Meyerbeer Franz Berwald Albert Lortzing Adolphe Adam Mikhail Glinka Otto Nicolai Charles-Valentin Alkan Franz von Suppé Édouard Lalo Louis Moreau Gottschalk Karl Goldmark Amilcare Ponchelli Henryk Wieniawski Léo Delibes Mily Balakirev Max Bruch Herman nGoetz Emmanuel Chabrier Arrigo Borto Arthur Sullivan Jules Massenet Charles-Marc Widor Pablo de Saraste Henri Duparc Vincent d'Indy Engelbert Humperdinck John Philip Sousa Anatoly Liadov Ernest Chausson Ruggiero Leoncavallo Mikhail Ippolitox-Ivanov Gustave Charpentier Edward MacDowell Isaac Albéniz Charles Martin Loeffler Anton Arensky Pietro Mascagni Alexander Glazunov Carl Nielsen Paul Dukas Alexander Scriabin Ralph Vaughn Williams Sergei Rachmaninoff Arnold Schoenberg Maurice Ravel Béla Bartók Igor Stranvinsky Alban Berg Sergei Prokofiev Paul Hindemith George Gershwin Francis Poulenc Aaron Copland Dmitri Shostakovich Benjamin Britten Erik Satie Ferruccio Busoni Umberto Giordano Enrique Granados Scott Joplin Hans Pfitzner Albert Roussel Franz Lehár Alexander von Zemlinsky Max Reger Gustav Holst Charles Ives Joef Suk Reinhold Glière Fritz Kreisler John Alden Carpenter Manuel de Falla Ernö von Dohnányi Ottorino Respighi Frank Bridge Nikolai Medtner Ernest Bloch George Enescu Karol Szymanowski Joaquín Turina Percy Grainger Zoltán Kodály Anton Webern Arnold Bax Alfredo Casella Edgard Varèse Charles Tomlinson Griffes George Butterworth Marcel Dupré Heitor Villa-Lobos Jacques Ibert Bohuslav Martinu Frank Martin Arthur Honegger Ferde Grofé Darius Milhaud Walter Piston Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Carl Orff Virgil Thomson Howard Hanson Roger Sessions Erich Wolfgang Korngold Roy Harris Silvestre Revueltas Carlos Chávez George Antheil Kurt Weill Harry Partch Gerld Finzi Joaquín Rodrigo Maurice Duruflé William Walton Aram Khachaturian Dmitri Kabalevsky Michael Tippett Elliott Carter Olivier Messiaen ; VG.…
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- Title
- The essential canon of classical music. [Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan ages; Age of the baroque, Age of classicism, the romantic age, arge of modernism]
- Author
- Dubal, David.
- Publisher
- New York : North Point Press, 2001
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- 2001
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 086547608X
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- 9780865476080
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