The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening

Do you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune...
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Author: Miles Hoffman
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The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening by Hoffman, Miles

The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening

CHF 46.14

The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening

CHF 46.14
Author: Miles Hoffman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Do you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune in to radio programs, go to concerts, and sometimes wonder just what, precisely, all those Italian musical terms mean? In this wonderfully engaging guide, Miles Hoffman demystifies the terms and concepts of classical music in an accessible and witty style. With more than one hundred entries, The NPR Classical Music Companion delves into definitions and etymologies, explores terms with reference to famous composers and works, and calls upon amusing analogies to make sense of music's finer points. Ranging from a paragraph to a few pages, the explanations gathered here tackle both the familiar and the not so familiar, from " a cappella " to " motet," from " opus numbers " to " zarzuela." The result is a delightful and comprehensive assemblage. For anyone who thinks that only professional musicians can understand classical music, this guide offers a clear path through a potentially daunting world. As much a companion to keep by the radio as an enjoyable book to read in a few sittings, The NPR Classical Music Companion makes understanding music a pleasure.

Author: Miles Hoffman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 11/22/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780544310933

About the Author
Hoffman, Miles: - MILES HOFFMAN is the music commentator for NPR's Morning Edition. Every week for thirteen years, from 1989 to 2002, he delighted the nationwide audience of NPR's Performance Today with his sparkling commentary "Coming to Terms." A graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, Hoffman is the violist and artistic director of the American Chamber Players and is the dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in South Carolina.

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