MUSIC AS AN ART: A GUIDE TO ENDURING ENJOYMENT THROUGH CONSCIOUS LISTENING - FROM GREGORIAN CHANT TO THE SCORES OF STRAVINSKY
by Herbert Weinstock
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1953. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound, price-clipped, w/light wear; under mylar. Historical survey of Western music by Herbert Weinstock (1905 - 1971), author of "Chopin: The Man and his Music," "Handel," and "Tchaikovsky." On what to hear patterns & structure, or, language used when listening to music. 334 pgs, in 21 chapters followed by Postlude. The composers & their works are placed within the context of the times in which composed & the evolutions brought about by new techniques and instruments are discussed.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
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- Title
- MUSIC AS AN ART: A GUIDE TO ENDURING ENJOYMENT THROUGH CONSCIOUS LISTENING - FROM GREGORIAN CHANT TO THE SCORES OF STRAVINSKY
- Author
- Herbert Weinstock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Music Appreciation; Classical Music; Music History; Classicism; Romanticism; Instrumentation; Neo-Classicism; Polyphony; Polytonality
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Art/Fine Arts/Art History/Art Criticism;
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