Fligg, David - Concise Guide To Orchestral Music
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Fligg, David - Concise Guide To Orchestral Music

Catalogue No: MLB20700
ArrangementAll Instruments
ComposerDavid Fligg
Product FormatSheet Music
£18.99
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LanguageEnglish
Pages254
ISBN9780786682300 (0786682302)

Orchestral works are the central pillars of classical music. In A Concise Guide to Orchestral Music, 1700 to the Present Day, David Fligg evaluates this great music, and explores why so many masterpieces continue to fascinate music lovers. As well as discussing individual composers, the book places orchestral music within a historical context, providing essential reading for music students, and enthusiasts of all ages.

Contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 – Setting the Scene
  6. Periods In Music
  7. The Orchestra
  8. Public Concerts
  9. Sonata Form
  10. The Symphony and Concerto
  11. Chapter 2 – The Eighteenth Century
  12. Bach, Handel and Vivaldi
  13. Haydn and Mozart
  14. Chapter 3 – The Age of Beethoven
  15. Chapter 4 – The Nineteenth Century (Part I)
  16. Schubert
  17. Rossini, Weber and Paganini
  18. Berlioz
  19. Mendelssohn
  20. Schumann
  21. Chopin and Liszt
  22. Chapter 5 – The Nineteenth Century (Part II)
  23. Wagner
  24. Bruckner
  25. Brahms
  26. Tchaikovsky
  27. Dvorák
  28. The Five and other Russians
  29. Other nineteenth century Romantics and Nationalists
  30. Chapter 6 – The Twentieth Century (Part I)
  31. Debussy
  32. Ravel
  33. Janácek and other Eastern European Nationalists
  34. Elgar
  35. Mahler
  36. Richard Strauss
  37. Sibelius
  38. Nielsen
  39. Rachmaninov
  40. Chapter 7 – The Twentieth Century (Part II)
  41. The Second Viennese School – Schoenberg, Berg and Webern
  42. Ives
  43. Stravinsky
  44. Bartók
  45. Other Northern Europeans and Americans
  46. Southern Europeans and Latin Americans
  47. Vaughan Williams and the British School after Elgar
  48. Walton, Tippett and Britten
  49. Messiaen and the French School after Debussy
  50. Prokofiev
  51. Hindemith
  52. Shostakovich
  53. Gershwin and the American Dream
  54. Copland, Carter, Barber and Bernstein
  55. Other Americans born before 1920
  56. Other Americans born after 1920
  57. Post-War Experimental Pioneers
  58. Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Penderecki, and others born before 1950
  59. Chapter 8 – Into the Millennium
  60. Suggested Further Reading
  61. Index
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