Listen to this
Record details
- ISBN: 0374187746 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780374187743 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xiii, 364 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | "Suggested listening": p. [335]-345. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Listen to this : crossing the border from classical to pop -- Chacona, lamento, walking blues : bass lines of music history -- Infernal machines : how recordings changed music -- The storm of style : Mozart's golden mean -- Orbiting : Radiohead's grand tour -- The anti-maestro : Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Great soul : searching for Schubert -- Emotional landscapes : Björk's saga -- Symphony of millions : classical music in China -- Song of the Earth : the Arctic sound of John Luther Adams -- Verdi's grip : opera as popular art -- Almost famous : on the road with the St. Lawrence Quartet -- Edges of pop : Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain -- Learning the score : the crisis in music education -- Voice of the century : Marian Anderson -- The music mountain : inside the Marlboro retreat -- I saw the light : following Bob Dylan -- Fervor : remembering Lorraine Hunt Lieberson -- Blessed are the sad : late Brahms. |
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Subject: | Musical criticism Popular music and art music Music History and criticism |
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Homer Public Library | 780 ROS (Text) | 000090597 | Nonfiction | Available | - |