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Hallelujah Junction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 17.99John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and ?he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience? (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). Now, in Hallelujah Junction , he incisively relates his life story,... more...
The Essential Canon of Classical Music
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 26.99The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem overwhelming at times. In The Essential Canon of Classical... more...
Classical Music Top 40
Touchstone 1995; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music
Elliott & Thompson 2012; US$ 14.42Just what exactly is classical music ...and why should it be a part of everyone's life? Who are the big names behind the classical hits ...and which are the best recordings of their music? What are you supposed to wear to a classical concert ...and when on earth are you supposed to applaud? 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music... more...
The First Four Notes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 26.95A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine 's #1 Music Book of the Year A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians,... more...
Orchestral Performance
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 29.15A comprehensive guide to the techniques of orchestral playing and the development of non-professional orchestras, Orchestral Performance covers all areas of orchestral music-making - instrumental technique and combination, ensemble, layout, repertoire and presentation. Christopher Adey - renowned specialist in the training of student orchestras -... more...
Beethoven
HarperCollins 2009; Not Available?Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage?or should one say, duet?of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates.? ? Christopher Buckley, Forbes ?This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional?and inestimable?merit of being true.? ? Washington Post Book World Pulitzer Prize-winning... more...
Rite of Spring: 75 Years of ABC Music-Making
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; US$ 22.65For three generations the ABC's symphony orchestras were a jewel in the crown of Australian culture, allowing audiences to hear Rubenstein, Tauber, Szell, Beecham, Schwarzkopf, Rostropovich and Klemperer in their primes, while providing career-long employment for Australia's own leading classical musicians. Much less well known is the fact that for... more...
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableThe inspiration behind the South Bank Centre?s year-long festival of 20th century music, Alex Ross?s masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground. more...
Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 47.99This book looks closely at both Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge , placing both in their historical and social contexts. It considers interesting questions about whether absolute music?music without words?can have meaning and speculates that some works of Western music can evoke synesthesia in listeners?a sense of motion through three-dimensional volumes... more...









