Classical music : the rough guide / written by Joe Staines[and others] ; edited by Joe Staines and Jonathan Buckley.
| Author/creator |
Staines, Joe |
| Other author/creator | Buckley, Jonathan. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 2nd edition |
| Publication Info | London : Rough Guides ; New York : Distributed by Penguin Books USA, 1998. |
| Description | x, 505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Rough Guides music reference series. ^A415860 |
| Contents | John Adams -- Isaac Albeniz -- Tomaso Albinoni -- Gregorio Allegri -- Louis Andriessen -- Malcolm Arnold -- Grazyna Bacewicz -- C. P. E. Bach -- J. S. Bach -- Samuel Barber -- Bela Bartok -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Vincenzo Bellini -- George Benjamin -- Alban Berg -- Luciano Berio -- Hector Berlioz -- Leonard Bernstein -- Heinrich Biber -- Harrison Birtwistle -- Georges Bizet -- Luigi Boccherini -- Alexander Borodin -- Lili Boulanger -- Pierre Boulez -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Antoine Brumel -- Ferruccio Busoni -- William Byrd -- John Cage -- Marie-Joseph Canteloube -- Giacomo Carissimi -- Elliott Carter -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- Marc-Antoine Charpentier -- Frederic Chopin -- Muzio Clementi -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Francois Couperin -- Claude Debussy -- Leo Delibes -- Frederick Delius -- Josquin Desprez -- Gaetano Donizetti -- John Dowland -- Guillaume Dufay -- Paul Dukas -- John Dunstable -- Antonin Dvorak -- Hanns Eisler -- Edward Elgar -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Faure -- Morton Feldman -- Cesar Franck -- Giovanni Gabrieli -- George Gershwin -- Carlo Gesualdo -- Orlando Gibbons -- Umberto Giordano -- Philip Glass -- Alexander Glazunov -- Mikhail Glinka -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Henryk Gorecki -- Charles-Francois Gounod -- Percy Grainger -- Enrique Granados -- Edvard Grieg -- Sofia Gubaidulina -- George Frideric Handel -- Jonathan Harvey -- Joseph Haydn -- Hans Werner Henze -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Arthur Honegger -- Johann Nepomuck Hummel -- Engelbert Humperdinck -- Charles Ives -- Leos Janacek -- Aram Khachaturian -- Zoltan Kodaly -- Erich Korngold -- Gyorgy Kurtag -- Roland de Lassus -- Franz Lehar -- Ruggero Leoncavallo -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Magnus Lindberg -- Franz Liszt -- Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Witold Lutoslawski -- Elisabeth Lutyens -- Guillaume de Machaut -- James Macmillan -- Elizabeth Maconchy -- Gustav Mahler -- Frank Martin -- Bohuslav Martinu -- Pietro Mascagni -- Jules Massenet -- Nicholas Maw -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Darius Milhaud -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Luigi Nono -- Michael Nyman -- Johannes Ockeghem -- Jacques Offenbach -- Carl Orff -- Johann Pachelbel -- Nicolo Paganini -- Giovanni da Palestrina -- Hubert Parry -- Arvo Part -- Krzysztof Penderecki -- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- Perotin -- Hans Pfitzner -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergey Prokofiev -- Giacomo Puccini -- Henry Purcell -- Sergei Rachmaninov -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Einojuhani Rautavaara -- Maurice Ravel -- Max Reger -- Steve Reich -- Ottorino Respighi -- Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Joaquin Rodrigo -- Gioachino Rossini -- Poul Ruders -- Camille Saint-Saens -- Erik Satie -- Alessandro Scarlatti -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Alfred Schnittke -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schreker -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Heinrich Schutz -- Alexander Scriabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedrich Smetana -- Ethel Smyth -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Alessandro Stradella -- The Strauss family -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Josef Suk -- Arthur Sullivan -- Karol Szymanowski -- Toru Takemitsu -- Thomas Tallis -- John Tavener -- John Taverner -- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky -- Georg-Philipp Telemann -- Michael Tippett -- Michael Torke -- Mark-Anthony Turnage -- Viktor Ullmann -- Edgard Varese -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Tomas Luis da Victoria -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern -- Kurt Weill -- Judith Weir -- Hugo Wolf -- Iannis Xenakis -- Alexander Zemlinsky. |
| Abstract | This book is a unique handbook, spanning eight centuries of music from medieval Masses to works by contemporaries such as Judith Weir and Michael Torke. Both a buyer's guide and a who's who, it features concise biographical sketches of some 160 composers, explaining their social and musical contexts; more than 150 illustrations, including some rarely seen archive photos; revealing summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from solo flute pieces to operas with casts of hundreds; and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting both the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the classic reissues. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| ISBN | 1858282578 (pbk.) : |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML390 .S724 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |