Do you want to know your Allegri from your Allegro? Your Tavener from your Taverner? Even your Bach from your Offenbach? Classic Ephemera is a musical miscellany packed with all manner of handy information: telling trivia, curious quotes and fascinating facts.

The pack contains: 'Friendly Guide to Music (with CD)' and 'Friendly Music Quiz Book'.

Presents 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A brief history of western classical music which will appeal to all music lovers.

Covers the information needed for an understanding of the elements that comprise classical music. This book is suitable for the parents of music students, parents who want to nurture an interest in classical music in their children, and educational institutions that provide instruction in music.

Offers information needed to select the finest classical music available. This book offers: assessment of the impact and importance of video and audio DVDs; some of the greatest historic performances; the major period instrument recordings; and, an appraisal of the best of the budget-priced CDs.

'The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2010' is the essential guide for music-lovers collecting their music on CD, DVD or as a download, drawing on the magazine's 85-year experience of reviewing classical music on record.

What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? This book examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, emotion, the weight of history, and self identity.

Indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. This book lists and assesses versions of various major classical works.

The power and prestige of music in the modern world has given its practitioners extraordinary wealth and moral authority. This book deals with the subject of the rise of music and musicians in the West from poorly-paid balladeers to music-masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to various rock stars.

Features questions and answers about classical music. The questions featured include: Which composer is alleged to have poisoned Motzart? Who wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory ? Which product was advertised on television to the tune of JS Bach's Air On The G String ? Who invented the saxaphone? And more.

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the ..

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the ..

A brief history of western classical music which will appeal to all music lovers.

Explores classical music's nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy.

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, this is the story of over 1000 years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions.