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Classical music : the rough guide by Staines, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Bach -- Samuel Barber -- Bela Bartok -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Vincenzo Bellini -- George Benjamin -- Alban Berg -- Luciano Berio -- Hector Berlioz -- Leonard Bernstein -- Heinrich Biber -- Harrison Birtwistle -- Georges Bizet -- Luigi Boccherini -- Alexander Borodin -- Lili Boulanger -- Pierre Boulez -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Antoine Brumel -- Ferruccio Busoni -- William Byrd -- John Cage -- Marie-Joseph Canteloube -- Giacomo Carissimi -- Elliott Carter -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- Marc-Antoine Charpentier -- Frederic Chopin -- Muzio Clementi -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Francois Couperin -- Claude Debussy -- Leo Delibes -- Frederick Delius -- Josquin Desprez -- Gaetano Donizetti -- John Dowland -- Guillaume Dufay -- Paul Dukas -- John Dunstable -- Antonin Dvorak -- Hanns Eisler -- Edward Elgar -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Faure -- Morton Feldman -- Cesar Franck -- Giovanni Gabrieli -- George Gershwin -- Carlo Gesualdo -- Orlando Gibbons -- Umberto Giordano -- Philip Glass -- Alexander Glazunov -- Mikhail Glinka -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Henryk Gorecki -- Charles-Francois Gounod -- Percy Grainger -- Enrique Granados -- Edvard Grieg -- Sofia Gubaidulina -- George Frideric Handel -- Jonathan Harvey -- Joseph Haydn -- Hans Werner Henze -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Arthur Honegger -- Johann Nepomuck Hummel -- Engelbert Humperdinck -- Charles Ives -- Leos Janacek -- Aram Khachaturian -- Zoltan Kodaly -- Erich Korngold -- Gyorgy Kurtag -- Roland de Lassus -- Franz Lehar -- Ruggero Leoncavallo -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Magnus Lindberg -- Franz Liszt -- Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Witold Lutoslawski -- Elisabeth Lutyens -- Guillaume de Machaut -- James Macmillan -- Elizabeth Maconchy -- Gustav Mahler -- Frank Martin -- Bohuslav Martinu -- Pietro Mascagni -- Jules Massenet -- Nicholas Maw -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Darius Milhaud -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Luigi Nono -- Michael Nyman -- Johannes Ockeghem -- Jacques Offenbach -- Carl Orff -- Johann Pachelbel -- Nicolo Paganini -- Giovanni da Palestrina -- Hubert Parry -- Arvo Part -- Krzysztof Penderecki -- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- Perotin -- Hans Pfitzner -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergey Prokofiev -- Giacomo Puccini -- Henry Purcell -- Sergei Rachmaninov -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Einojuhani Rautavaara -- Maurice Ravel -- Max Reger -- Steve Reich -- Ottorino Respighi -- Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Joaquin Rodrigo -- Gioachino Rossini -- Poul Ruders -- Camille Saint-Saens -- Erik Satie -- Alessandro Scarlatti -- Domenico Scarlatti -- Alfred Schnittke -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schreker -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Heinrich Schutz -- Alexander Scriabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedrich Smetana -- Ethel Smyth -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Alessandro Stradella -- The Strauss family -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Josef Suk -- Arthur Sullivan -- Karol Szymanowski -- Toru Takemitsu -- Thomas Tallis -- John Tavener -- John Taverner -- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky -- Georg-Philipp Telemann -- Michael Tippett -- Michael Torke -- Mark-Anthony Turnage -- Viktor Ullmann -- Edgard Varese -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Tomas Luis da Victoria -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern -- Kurt Weill -- Judith Weir -- Hugo Wolf -- Iannis Xenakis -- Alexander Zemlinsky.…”


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The ambient century : from Mahler to trance : the evolution of sound in the electronic age by Prendergast, Mark J.

Table of Contents: “…The Electronic Landscape -- Gustav Mahler -- Erik Satie -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Frederick Delius -- Charles Griffes -- Charles Ives -- Iberian Sounds -- William Duddell -- Thaddeus Cahill -- Lee De Forest -- Luigi Russolo -- Leon Theremin -- Maurice Martenot -- Jorg Mager -- Friedrich Trautwein and Oskar Sala -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg and Anton Webern -- Leopold Stokowski -- Edgard Varese -- Percy Grainger -- Olivier Messiaen -- Paul Bowles -- Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry -- John Cage -- Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Miles Davis -- Daphne Oram -- Raymond Scott -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Pierre Boulez -- Iannis Xenakis -- Morton Feldman -- Morton Subotnick -- Wendy Carlos -- Toru Takemitsu -- Kaija Saariaho -- Electronic Media -- Records -- Magnetic tape -- Keyboards, Synthesizers and Computers -- Compact Disc -- Minimalism, Eno and the New Simplicity -- La Monte Young -- Terry Riley -- Steve Reich -- Brian Eno -- Philip Glass -- ECM -- Windham Hill and New Age Music -- Harold Budd -- Jon Hassell -- Michael Nyman -- John Adams -- Arvo Part -- Henryk Gorecki -- John Tavener -- Other Minimalists -- Ambience in the Rock Era -- Innovators -- Leo Fender -- Les Paul -- Joe Meek -- The Beatles -- Bob Dylan -- The Beach Boys -- Jimi Hendrix -- Ravi Shankar -- The Velvet Underground, Nico and John Cale -- Simon & Garfunkel -- The Rolling Stones -- Marvin Gaye and Van Morrison -- David Bowie -- Psychedelia -- The Byrds -- Love and The Doors -- The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash -- Spirit -- Tim Buckley -- The Grateful Dead -- Country Joe And The Fish -- H.P. …”


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The essential canon of classical music by Dubal, David

Table of Contents: “…Guillaume de Machaut -- Guillaume Dufay -- Josquin Desprex -- Thomas Tallis -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Orlande de Lassus -- William Byrd -- Tomás Luis de Victoria -- Giovanni Gabrieli -- Carlo Gesualdo -- John Dowland -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Gregorio Allegri -- George Frederic Handel -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Giorlamo Frescobaldi -- Heinrich Schütz -- Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Dietrich Buxtehude -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Henry Purcell -- Alessandro Scarlatti -- François Couperin -- Tomaso Albinoni -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Jan Zelenka -- Georg Philipp Telemann -- Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Francesco Geminiani -- Giueseppe Tartini -- Thomas Arne -- Giovanni battista Pergolesi -- William Boyce -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Pietro Nardini -- Antonio Soler -- Luigi Boccherini -- Domenico Cimarosa -- Muzio Clementi -- luigi Cherubini -- François-Adrien Boidldieu -- Johann Nepomuk Hummel -- Fernando Sor -- Mauro Giuliani -- Nicolò Paganini -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Gioachimo Rossini -- Franz Schubert -- Gaetano Donizetti -- Vincenzo Bellini -- Hector Berlioz -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Frédéric Chopin -- Robert Schumann -- Franz Liszt -- Richard Wagner -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Charles Gounod -- Jacques Offenbach -- César Frank -- Bedřich Smetana -- Anton Bruckner -- Johann Strauss II -- Johannes Brahms -- Alexander Borodin -- Camille Saint-Saëns -- Georges Bizet -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky -- Antonín Dvořák -- Edvard Grieg -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Gabriel Fauré -- Leoš Janáček -- Sir Edward Elgar -- Giacomo Puccini-- Hugo Wolf -- Gustav Mahler -- Frederick Delius -- Claude Debussy -- Richard Strauss -- Jean Sibelius -- Daniel-François Auber -- Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Franz Berwald -- Albert Lortzing -- Adolphe Adam -- Mikhail Glinka -- Otto Nicolai -- Charles-Valentin Alkan -- Franz von Suppé -- Édouard Lalo -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Karl Goldmark -- Amilcare Ponchelli -- Henryk Wieniawski -- Léo Delibes -- Mily Balakirev -- Max Bruch -- Herman nGoetz -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- Arrigo Borto -- Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Jules Massenet -- Charles-Marc Widor -- Pablo de Saraste -- Henri Duparc -- Vincent d'Indy -- Engelbert Humperdinck -- John Philip Sousa -- Anatoly Liadov -- Ernest Chausson -- Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Mikhail Ippolitox-Ivanov -- Gustave Charpentier -- Edward MacDowell -- Isaac Albéniz -- Charles Martin Loeffler -- Anton Arensky -- Pietro Mascagni -- Alexander Glazunov -- Carl Nielsen -- Paul Dukas -- Alexander Scriabin -- Ralph Vaughn Williams -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Maurice Ravel -- Béla Bartók -- Igor Stranvinsky -- Alban Berg -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Paul Hindemith -- George Gershwin -- Francis Poulenc -- Aaron Copland -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Benjamin Britten -- Erik Satie -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Umberto Giordano -- Enrique Granados -- Scott Joplin -- Hans Pfitzner -- Albert Roussel -- Franz Lehár -- Alexander von Zemlinsky -- Max Reger -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Joef Suk -- Reinhold Glière -- Fritz Kreisler -- John Alden Carpenter -- Manuel de Falla -- Ernö von Dohnányi -- Ottorino Respighi -- Frank Bridge -- Nikolai Medtner -- Ernest Bloch -- George Enescu -- Karol Szymanowski -- Joaquín Turina -- Percy Grainger -- Zoltán Kodály -- Anton Webern -- Sir Arnold Bax -- Alfredo Casella -- Edgard Varèse -- Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- George Butterworth -- Marcel Dupré -- Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Jacques Ibert -- Bohuslav Martinů -- Frank Martin -- Arthur Honegger -- Ferde Grofé -- Darius Milhaud -- Walter Piston -- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- Carl Orff -- Virgil Thomson -- Howard Hanson -- Roger Sessions -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Roy Harris -- Silvestre Revueltas -- Carlos Chávez -- George Antheil -- Kurt Weill -- Harry Partch -- Gerld Finzi -- Joaquín Rodrigo -- Maurice Duruflé -- Sir William Walton -- Aram Khachaturian -- Dmitri Kabalevsky -- Sir Michael Tippett -- Elliott Carter -- Olivier Messiaen -- Graz̀yna Bacewicz -- Samuel Barber -- Alan Hovhaness -- Gian Carlo Menotti -- John Cage -- Morton Gould -- Witold Lutosławski -- George Perle -- Milton Babbitt -- Alberto Ginastera -- Lou Harrison -- Leonard Bernstein -- Karel Husa -- Iannis Xenakis -- György Ligeti -- Ned Rorem -- Luciano Berio -- Pierre Boulez -- Hans Werner Henze -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- George Crumb -- Toru Takemitsu -- Rodion Shehedrin -- Krzystof Penderecki -- Sier Peter Maxwell Davies -- Alfred Schnittke -- Arvo Part -- Philip Glass -- William Bolcom.…”


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Rejoice : a vision of Christ through music.

Table of Contents: “…Matthew 22, 15-22) / Arvo Pärt (Elora Festival Singers ; Noel Edison, conductor) (5:35) -- Requiem : Pie Jesu / John Rutter (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge ; Timothy Brown, conductor) (3:36) -- The crucifixion : Chorus, God so loved the world / John Stainer (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge ; Timothy Brown, conductor) (3:36) -- Requiem in D minor, K. 626 : Sequentia: Lacrimosa dies illa / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus ; Zdeněk Košler, conductor) (3:19) -- The protecting veil : Christ is risen! …”


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Concerto for choir ; Three sacred hymns

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Norton anthology of western music. Volume 3, The twentieth century and after

Table of Contents: “…SOnata for violin and violoncello: fifth movement, Listen to the still small voice within / Sofia Gubaidulina -- Concerto Grosso No.1: second movement, Toccata / Alfred Schnittke -- Seven magnificat antiphons: excerpts / Arvo Pärt : No.1: O Weisheit -- No.6: O König aller Völker. …”


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The war : a Ken Burns film : the soundtrack. by Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-, Meyer, Edgar, Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Teaching music through performance in choir: resource recordings.

Table of Contents: “…Wilding-White -- Da pacem Domine / Arvo Pärt -- Earth song / Frank Ticheli -- Good night, dear heart / Dan Forrest -- I carry your heart with me / David Dickau -- I hear a voice a-prayin' / Houston Bright (2:32) -- It was a lover and his lass / Matthew Harris -- Canticle of Mary / Jeffery Ames, Scott Leaman -- Tota pulchra es / Maurice Duruflé -- Veni, Domine: from Drei Motetten, op. 39 / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Tantem ergo / Maurice Duruflé -- Pilgrim's hymn / Stephen Paulus -- Rise up, my love, my fair one / Healey Willan -- She weeps over Rahoon / Eric Whitacre -- Hark, I hear the harps eternal / arr. …”


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Music composition for dummies by Jarrett, Scott

Table of Contents: “…15: Composing for the nonstandard orchestra -- Bass -- Upright bass -- Electric bass guitar -- Acoustic bass -- Guitar -- Acoustic guitar -- Electric guitar -- Twelve-string guitar -- Steel guitar -- Free Reed instruments -- Harmonica -- Accordion -- Concertina -- 16: Composing for multiple voices -- Story lines and instrumentation -- Writing multiple harmony lines -- Independent voices -- Counterpoint -- Five elements of a musical tone -- Pitch -- Duration -- Intensity -- Timbre -- Sonance -- Some do's and don'ts -- Don't write more than three independent melodies at one time -- Don't cross melody lines over each other -- Do be deliberate in the use of octaves and unisons -- Do consider tessitura -- Exercises -- 17: Composing commercial music and songs -- Composing for film -- Working with time code -- Working with proxy movies -- Composing for video games -- Composing for TV and radio -- Composing for the orchestra -- Composing for yourself -- Composing teams -- Helpful organizations and web sites -- Film connection -- American composer's forum -- American composer's forum, Los Angeles chapter -- Film Music Network -- Working with agents -- Songwriting -- Deciding on lyrics and tempo -- Building rhythm -- Choosing your form -- In the beginning -- Making your song moody -- Hook -- Making a great demo -- Keep it short -- Only include the best stuff -- Organize it -- Have more ready to go -- Identify yourself -- Invest in quality -- Copyright it -- 18: Composing electronic music -- Software and hardware for composition -- Sequencers and digital audio workstations -- Music notation software: scorewriters -- Repetition and the computer -- Sound libraries -- Composing on computers -- Thinking in sections -- Linear composition -- Loop composing -- Computer as recorder: musical scrapbooking -- Bad news -- Saving and backing up -- 19: Composing for other musicians -- Composing with lead sheets -- Composing with guitar tablature -- Score -- Writing for ensembles -- Working with foreign scores and ensembles -- Part 5: Part Of Tens -- 20: Ten composers you should know about -- Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643 -- Charles Ives, 1874-1954 -- Bela Bartok, 1881-1945 -- Igor Stavinsky, 1882-1971 -- Aaron Copland, 1900-1990 -- Raymond Scott, 1909-1994 -- Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990 -- Arvo Part, 1935-present -- Steve Reich, 1936-present -- Eric Whitacre, 1970-present -- 21: Nine career opportunities for composers -- School bands and choirs -- Incidental television music -- Musical theater -- Concert composition and performances -- Producer/arranger -- Industrial music and advertising -- Business conventions -- Music libraries -- Film scoring -- Video game scoring -- Songwriting -- 22: Almost ten recommended books for composers -- Songwriter's market -- Shaping of musical elements, Vol II -- Norton scores, Vols. 1 and 2, 10th edition -- How to grow as a musician -- Analysis of tonal music: a Schenkerian approach -- Virgin Directory of World Music -- Rough guide to Classical Music, 4th edition -- American Mavericks -- RE/Search #14 & #15: Incredibly strange music, Vols I and II -- 23: Ten periods of music history to explore -- Classical music -- Medieval period: the monophonic phase (590-1200) -- Pre-classical period (1700-1770) -- Early 20th century (1910-1950) -- Minimalism (1950-present) -- Jazz -- Early jazz (roughly 1890-1930) -- Avant garde (1960s) -- Rock -- Krautrock -- Math rock (1990s) -- Post-rock (1980s-present) -- Right now.…”


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Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.

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The war : a Ken Burns film : soundtrack and music from the Second World War. by Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

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Classical Music for Dummies

Table of Contents: “…Adagio (extract) / Joaquin Rodrigo (3:00) -- Aria (cantilena): Bachianas brasileiras no.5 (extract) / Heitor Villa-Lobos (2:58) -- Rhapsody in blue (orch. by Ferde Greofe) / George Gerswhin (2:40) -- Adagio for strings (extract) / Samuel Barber (2:06) -- Symphonic dances from west side story: I prologue (extract) / Leonard Bernstein (2:17) -- Piano concerto no.2 in C minor: I. moderato (extract) / Sergei Rachmaninov (2:29) -- Romeo and Juliet: The knights dance (extract) / Sergei Prokofiev (1:46) -- Pierre et le loup: theme de pierre / Sergei Prokofiev (0:54) -- The rite of spring: the adoration of the earth (extract) / Igor Stravinsky (3:20) -- Gayaneh: Sabre dance / Aram Khatchatourian (2:27) -- Jazz suite no.2: VI Waltz 2 (extract) / Dmitri Shostakovich (1:25) -- Quarter for the end of time: dance of fury, for the seven trumpets (1:11) -- 6 small pieces for piano: VI. etude / Henri Dutilleux (1:11) -- Spiegel im speigel (extract) / Arvo Part (3:31) -- Facades / Phillip Glass (2:30).…”


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Norton recorded anthology of western music.

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Norton recorded anthology of western music.

Table of Contents: “…No. 1, O weisheit ; No. 6, O König aller Völker / Arvo Pärt -- Rejoice! Sonata for violin and violoncello, V. …”


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Norton recorded anthology of western music.

Table of Contents: “…Sonata for violin and violoncello, 5th movement, Listen to the still small voice within / Sofia Gubaidulina ; Concerto grosso no. 1, 2nd movement, Toccata / Alfred Schnittke ; Seven magnificat antiphons. Excerpts / Arvo Pärt ; L'amour de loin, act IV, scene 3 / Kaija Saariaho ; La pasión según San Marcos. …”


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Norton anthology of western music

Table of Contents: “…O Weisheit, O König aller Völker / Arvo Pärt -- The twenty-first century. L'amour de loin. …”


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