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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 780.922 EAN: 9781843532477 Edition: 4 Rev Exp ISBN: 1843532476 Label: Rough Guides Manufacturer: Rough Guides Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: August 29, 2005 Publisher: Rough Guides Studio: Rough Guides Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Synopsis This expanded and completely revised fourth edition is a unique handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Review of Rough guide to operaThe Rough Guide to Opera is an excellent and fairly comprehensive guide to opera in generak and even recent (modern?) opera. Rating:  - Great guide with a few drawbacksThis guide is, on the whole, an excellent book. The only things I do not like about it are A. that Romanian composer and musician George Enescu is not even mentioned here - not only was he Romania's best composer, he was also Yehudi Menuhin's mentor and idol. It is strange for this guide to not even mention someone like Enescu, who is held in such high esteem by Menuhin, whom many regard as the greatest violinist of the 20th century; and B. that in the case of Mozart, for instance, ... Read More Rating: - fantastic guide for beginnersThis is the best guide I've found for the newcomer to classical music. Full of well written descriptions of composers and their works. It helped me tremendously in approaching the daunting and confusing body of works & recordings and I still pick it up regularly for casual reading and as a reference. To complain that this isn't a 1500 page comprehensive guide with everyone's favorite composers is to miss the point entirely. There are plenty of other books to choose from that serve that ... Read More Rating:  - It wasn't good in the first place and now it's noncompetitiveFor those that have never sampled one, the "rough guide" series is a group of books that pretend to be expert guides into something for newbies. This book is a guide to classical music. Its cover brags that it is, "The A-Z of composers, key works and top recordings." Amazon's text says this, the 4th edition of the Rough Guide to Classical Music, is completely revised. I'm not sure what they mean by that since the contents are virtually the same as the third edition. Only the "feature boxes" ... Read More Rating: - A great place to start to explore classical musicThis book is invaluable for those who have a limited knowledge of classical music and want to expand their listening repertoire. It is a compendium of information on over two hundred classical composers and their works. In addition to the information presented by composer, a number of boxes explore themes as diverse as "What is a Fugue?" (under Bach), "The Cult of the Conductor" (under Mahler) and "The Crisis of Tonality" (under Schoenberg). The choice of composers is excellent - of course when the number ... Read More 
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