This unusual and special production by two of the most important brand names in classical music includes more than 150 musical excerpts. The fourth CD has an additional CD-ROM element with text, pictures of composers, sheet music and quizzes. This lively recording is the perfect way to introduce classical music to the entire family and covers 1400 years of classical music from Gregorian chant ..

Contains over 500 composer and 800 performer bios, from all the big names like Beethoven, Vivaldi and Bach to such left-field entries as Brian Eno and Pete Townshend (for ambient music, which had a heavy influence on the Minimalist movement and the modern spiritualists like Arvo Part and John Tavener, and the rock opera Tommy, respectively).

A guide to the life and work of Wolfgang Mozart, arguably one of the greatest composer of all time - from his beginnings as a child prodigy to his fame and fortune as a young man in Vienna to his decline in health and popularity that led to destitution and a tragically early death at the age of 35.

Features a work-by-work commentary on the Bach cantatas. This work includes the cantata librettos in German-English parallel text. It is useful for those listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the world's most popular and accessible classical composers. This book offers an introduction to Mozart's fascinating life and music. It combines biographical information with an exploration of some of his most important orchestral, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral pieces.

For anyone that wants a short, light-hearted introduction to classical music.

Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.

Featuring various questions and answers, this book aims to test your knowledge of classical music.

Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities, and extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn.

The autobiography of Sir Charles Halle, the pianist, conductor and founder of the Halle Orchestra.

The Tonic SolFa Movement. Providing an alternative history of Victorian British music, this book examines the methods of teaching the revolutionary sight-singing notation tonic sol-fa to the masses in Britain and its colonies. Using previously unknown primary sources, McGuire investigates the significant influence the system had on the social history of the Victorian era.

A survey of Schubert's instrumental music. It asks questions such as: Did the prolific composer of the C major String Quintet and more than a thousand other masterpieces manage to achieve so much in a career that spanned less than two decades?

Professor Sir Donald Tovey's celebrated bar-by-bar analysis of Beethoven's 32 Pianoforte Sonatas remains a key text for pianists, students, scholars and music lovers. This book contains a summary of the author's analytical approach before each sonata is dealt with in detail.

A musical compendium containing biographies of over 100 composers, including many before the age of J S Bach, and an analysis of over a thousand of their compositions in all branches of music. It provides historical perspective, featuring composers in a chronological order, beginning with Guillaume de Machaut and ending with Richard Strauss.

The history of classical music is the story of over 1000 years of Western classical music and composers. The history of opera traces the history of opera from its origins in the 16th century to the 21st century and also looks at the operetta.

Helps students and their teachers achieve stylish performances of music of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. These guides include chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions. They are also illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures.

Published in 1862 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Philharmonic Society, which championed 'modern' composers including Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Part of the Music for Life series, this is a comprehensive guide to being an inspiring and successful music teacher. It addresses comprehensive, across-the-board issues that affect all teachers, students, and musicians.

This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works. A new bibliography and a collation with the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe edition of letters, edited by O.E.Deutsch, W.A.Bauer and J.H.Eibl: Baerenreiter, 1962-75 is also included.