A handbook of composers and their music / Paul Farmer.
By: Farmer, Paul [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Oxford University Press, [1982]Description: 96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0193210924 (paperback) .Subject(s): Music appreciation -- Juvenile literature | Music -- Instruction and study -- Juvenile | Composers -- Biography -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 780.92Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00204591 |
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Elizabethan music -- Purcell -- Bach -- Handel -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Keyboard instruments -- Beethoven -- Classical and romantic music -- Schubert -- MAendelssohn -- Sonatas and symphonies -- The orchestra -- Berlioz -- Chopin -- Schumann -- Brahms -- Wagner -- Opera -- Verdi -- Tchaikovsky - Nationalism -- Dvorak -- Debussy -- Stravinsky -- American music -- Britten -- British music -- Schoenberg -- The avant-garde.
Discusses composers from Purcell and Bach to Britten and Schoenberg and surveys the development of music in the past three centuries. Includes questions for review and things to do.