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Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
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‘Hello, I’m Stephen Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on “The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music”…putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.’ In his “Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music”, Stephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in references to pretty much wha… More >>
Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
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The History of Classical Music: Library Edition
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A superb crossover title of enormous appeal to the vast selection of the population that enjoys classical music, but would like to know more about it. From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, seria… More >>
The History of Classical Music: Library Edition
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Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall
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A chronicle of the tensions and contradictions of a musical high culture borrowed and homegrown in unequal measure. Classical Music in America is a pioneering history by an award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture. Joseph Horowitz argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the nineteenth century and receding after W… More >>
Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall
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