For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of

For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening

With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?

A protÃ©gÃ© of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience--a unique one each and every time--allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-09-17
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780525520658

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-09-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780525520658

For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening

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