A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's "What Makes It Great"(TM) Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece--which can be heard on the book's web site--transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history…mehr
A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's "What Makes It Great"(TM) Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece--which can be heard on the book's web site--transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history easy to grasp no matter what your musical background. * Explores the musical styles and genius of great classical composers, including Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy * Features an accompanying web site where you can see, hear, and download each short masterpiece and all of the book's musical examples * Introduces you in depth to popular pieces from the classical repertoire, including "Spring" from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), "Dove Sono" from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), and "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky) * Written by acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist Rob Kapilow: "You could practically see the light bulbs going on above people's heads" (The Philadelphia Inquirer); "Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does" (The Boston Globe); "A wonderful guy who brings music alive!" (Katie Couric) This book, along with the music on the companion web site, is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in classical music, whether first-time listener, experienced concertgoer or performing musician, offering an entree into the world of eighteen great composers and a collection of individual masterpieces spanning almost two hundred years.
Rob Kapilow is a composer, conductor, pianist, author, and music commentator. His "What Makes It Great?" programs, which began on NPR, have been developed into full-length concert evenings that are a mainstay of Lincoln Center's "Great Performers" series and are also presented on a recurring basis in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City, in California at Cerritos, and in Canada at the Toronto Symphony. They have also been turned into CD recordings and video podcasts. He appears regularly throughout the United States and Canada, both with "What Makes It Great?" and "FamilyMusik," and has been featured in print and on television, including on NBC's "Today" show and "Live from Lincoln Center" on PBS. In 2008, his first book, "All You Have to Do Is Listen," was selected as the Best Book in Music & the Performing Arts by the Association of American Publishers. In 2009, he was the subject of "Summer Sun Winter Moon," a PBS documentary about his Lewis and Clark symphony in collaboration with a Blackfoot poet.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v HOW TO USE THE WEBSITE vi INTRODUCTION "To Know One Thing Well" 1 1 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 1741) 5 "Spring" (Movement 1) from The Four Seasons 2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 1750) 26 Invention No.1 from the Two part Inventions 3 George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) 39 "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah 4 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 1809) 59 String Quartet, Op.76, No. 1, Movement 3 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 1791) 73 "Dove Sono" from The Marriage of Figaro 6 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) 89 Waldstein Sonata, Movement 1 7 Franz Schubert (1797 1828) 117 "Erlkönig" 8 Frédéric Chopin (1810 1849) 140 A Minor Mazurka, Op.17, No.4 9 Robert Schumann (1810 1856) 156 "Träumerei" from Kinderszenen 10 Franz Liszt (1811 1886) 166 Transcendental Étude in A Minor 11 Felix Mendelssohn (1809 1847) 182 Scherzo from the String Octet in E flat Major, Op. 20 12 Richard Wagner (1813 1883) 206 Prelude to Tristan and Isolde 13 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901) 223 "De' Miei Bollenti Spiriti" from La Traviata 14 Giacomo Puccini (1858 1924) 237 "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly 15 Johannes Brahms (1833 1897) 249 A Major Intermezzo, Op.118, No.2 16 Antonín DvorÇák (1841 1904) 264 Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.8 17 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840 1893) 283 "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite 18 Claude Debussy (1862 1918) 296 "Des Pas sur la Neige" from Preludes, Book I GLOSSARY 307 INDEX 309
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v HOW TO USE THE WEBSITE vi INTRODUCTION "To Know One Thing Well" 1 1 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 1741) 5 "Spring" (Movement 1) from The Four Seasons 2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 1750) 26 Invention No.1 from the Two part Inventions 3 George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) 39 "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah 4 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 1809) 59 String Quartet, Op.76, No. 1, Movement 3 5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 1791) 73 "Dove Sono" from The Marriage of Figaro 6 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) 89 Waldstein Sonata, Movement 1 7 Franz Schubert (1797 1828) 117 "Erlkönig" 8 Frédéric Chopin (1810 1849) 140 A Minor Mazurka, Op.17, No.4 9 Robert Schumann (1810 1856) 156 "Träumerei" from Kinderszenen 10 Franz Liszt (1811 1886) 166 Transcendental Étude in A Minor 11 Felix Mendelssohn (1809 1847) 182 Scherzo from the String Octet in E flat Major, Op. 20 12 Richard Wagner (1813 1883) 206 Prelude to Tristan and Isolde 13 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901) 223 "De' Miei Bollenti Spiriti" from La Traviata 14 Giacomo Puccini (1858 1924) 237 "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly 15 Johannes Brahms (1833 1897) 249 A Major Intermezzo, Op.118, No.2 16 Antonín DvorÇák (1841 1904) 264 Slavonic Dance, Op.46, No.8 17 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840 1893) 283 "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite 18 Claude Debussy (1862 1918) 296 "Des Pas sur la Neige" from Preludes, Book I GLOSSARY 307 INDEX 309
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