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The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
- Author
- Jan Jan Swafford
- Narrator
- Peter Coates
- Publisher
- Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
- Publish Date
- 20 April 2026
- Run Time
- 19 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively—and opinionated—musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:
- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times;
- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement;
- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds;
- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library.
Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
This audiobook is expertly read and engineered by Peter Coates. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Details
- Author
- Jan Jan Swafford
- Narrator
- Peter Coates
- Duration
- 19 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9798349139024
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Synopsis
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively—and opinionated—musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times;informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement;a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds;a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library.Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.This audiobook is expertly read and engineered by Peter Coates. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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