ISBN: 157715150X 9781577151500

Category: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical

Page count: 160

<p><b>From the classical music of the Middle Ages to today, <i>Know It All: Classical Music</i> is your guide to understanding the foundation of this incredible movement in music.</b><br><br> Do you <b>know a capella from zarzuela</b>, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a<b> serenade and a symphony</b>? If you have only one minute, there is time - using <i>Know It All: Classical Music - </i>to understand the creative journey taken by classical music <b>from the Middle Ages to the modern era</b>.<br><br> Our early ancestors understood pitch and rhythm and the basic tools that have been worked and ordered by composers and performers over the past 400 years into<b> an extraordinary body of music </b>written for <b>soloists</b>, <b>chamber musicians</b>, and entire <b>orchestras</b>.<br><br> From plainsong to program music, <b>appreciate the magnitude and majesty</b>, the passion and the pathos of sounds that have the power to stir our emotions to great joy, or infinite sadness. <b>Here's music to your ears</b>.</p>