30-Second Classical Music: The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute

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Dr. Joanne Cormac

Softcover | 15.3 x 19.5 cm | 160 pp

Ivy Press | 2019 | 9781782409311

Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? This book helps the reader to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era.

Our early ancestors understood pitch and rhythm, the basic tools that have been worked and ordered by composers and performers over the past 400 years into an extraordinary body of music written for soloists, chamber musicians and entire orchestras. 30-Second Classical Music is designed to aid appreciation of the magnitude and majesty, the passion and the pathos of sounds that have the power to stir our emotions from great joy or infinite sadness.

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