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The Music Box: Musical Instruments and the Great Composers
Max Wade-Matthews
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Description for The Music Box: Musical Instruments and the Great Composers
Hardcover. A box set that provides a complete illustrated guide to the history of music, instruments of the orchestra and the most influential classical composers. It answers the question, "What is music?" And "what is a musical instrument?" It also covers the life and times and key works of over 100 great composers, from Bach to Tchaikovsky. Num Pages: 512 pages, over 1150 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; AVR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 181 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1902.
This is an outstanding and authoritative box set for classical music enthusiasts, covering the complete history of music-making, sections of the orchestra, and the lives and works of the great composers. It examines a wide range of musical instruments, including strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboards and the voice, as well as rare and non-Western instruments. It features in-depth biographies of over 100 famous composers, such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Shostakovich, encompassing all styles of composition from medieval times to the present day. It is fully illustrated with over 1150 photographs, fine art paintings and illuminations, including handwritten ... Read more
This is an outstanding and authoritative box set for classical music enthusiasts, covering the complete history of music-making, sections of the orchestra, and the lives and works of the great composers. It examines a wide range of musical instruments, including strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboards and the voice, as well as rare and non-Western instruments. It features in-depth biographies of over 100 famous composers, such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Shostakovich, encompassing all styles of composition from medieval times to the present day. It is fully illustrated with over 1150 photographs, fine art paintings and illuminations, including handwritten ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Anness Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754828525
SKU
V9780754828525
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Max Wade-Matthews
Max Wade-Matthews attended the RAF School of Music at Uxbridge and served in brass bands in England, Germany and Hong Kong. He has written books on music, as well as playing with brass bands, conducting and teaching. Wendy Thompson studied piano and violin at the Royal College of Music, London. She was Editorial Director at Faber Music Limited, and then ... Read more
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