The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Author: Joe Staines
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1405383216
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 691

Book Description
This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.

Classical Music

Author: Duncan Clark
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858287218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 630

Book Description
Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.

Country Music

Author: Kurt Wolff
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858285344
Category : Country music
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Includes essays tracing Country's growth from hand-me-down folk to a major American industry; concise biographies; critical album reviews, from the earliest commercial recordings of the 1920s through the mulitplatinum artists of today; and vintage album jackets and previously unpublished photographs.

All Music Guide to Classical Music

Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308650
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1620

Book Description
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.

Rough Ideas

Author: Stephen Hough
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721408
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.

The Rough Guide to Rock

Author: Peter Buckley
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 1858284570
Category : Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234

Book Description
Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

The Rough Guide Book of Brain Training

Author: Dr Gareth Moore
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 1848365187
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
A puzzle book designed to give your brain a thorough work-out through a 100-day program of puzzles and exercises.

World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author: Simon Broughton
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781858286365
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708

Book Description
The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal

Author: Essi Berelian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to heavy metal music that profiles three hundred bands and artists, describes all the sub-genres, highlights memorable performances, and offers a detailed discography.

1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

Author: Matthew Rye
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785835822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 963

Book Description
A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves.