Dimensions
228 x 223 x 36mm
If you love classical music and want to learn more about it, 'Inside Music' is the ideal guide to whatever your level of expertise. Karl Haas will take you through every aspect of classical music in a readable, entertaining and informative manner.
With clarity and perception, detail and anedotes, he discusses:
- The infinite pleasures of listening to music.
- The fundamentals of rhythm, melody, harmony and tonal colour.
- The evolution of musical instruments and examples of each one's role in the orchestral repertoire (with 50 illustrations).
- The conductor and his art.
- More than twenty musical categories, such as sonata, concerto, mass and opera.
- The major periods of music, from ancient times to twentieth-century Neo-classicism.
- The accomplishments of celebrated composers and an overview of the contemporary music scene.
