Joanne Cormac

30-Second Classical Music

The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute

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Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Our early ancestors understood pitch and rhythm, the basic tools that have been worked and ordered by composers and performers over the past 400 years into an extraordinary body of music written for soloists, chamber musicians and entire orchestras. Today, everyone has access to a prodigy of classical music which, far from being traditional or elitist, is alive… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78240-539-9
EAN: 9781782405399
Produktnummer: 35541970
Verlag: Ivy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 29'276 KB

Über den Autor

Dr. Joanne Cormac spent two years as Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University before being awarded, in 2015, a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the University of Nottingham for her project Composer Biography:Narrative, Identity and Reception, which will explore the biographical treatment of a range of composers across written, visual, and spoken media. Joanne completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham, on the topic Liszt as Kapellmeister: The Development of the Symphonic Poems on the Weimar Stage. Joanne's research interests include Liszt, composer biography, and the role of music in 19th-century theater in England and Germany. Her publications are available in 19th-century Music and 19th-century Music Review.