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The gift of music : great composers and their influence / Jane Stuart Smith, Betty Carlson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, [1995]Copyright date: 1995Edition: Third editionDescription: 317 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 089107869X
  • 9780891078692
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML390 .S642 1995
Contents:
Introduction: Psalms in western music history. -- Schutz: 1585-1672. -- Vivaldi: 1678-1741. -- Bach: 1685-1750. -- Handel: 1685-1759. -- Haydn: 1732-1809. -- Mozart: 1756-1791. -- Beethoven: 1770-1827. -- Rossini: 1792-1868. -- Schubert: 1797-1828. -- Strauss family: nineteenth century. -- Berlioz: 1803-1869. -- Mendelssohn: 1809-1847. -- Chopin: 1810-1849. -- Robert Schumann: 1810-1856, Clara Schumann: 1819-1896. -- Liszt: 1811-1886. -- Wagner: 1813-1883. -- Verdi: 1813-1901. -- Bruckner: 1824-1896. -- Brahms: 1833-1897. -- Saint-Saens: 1835-1921. -- Tchaikovsky: 1840-1893. -- Dvorak: 1841-1904. -- Faure: 1845-1924. -- Puccini: 1858-1924. -- Mahler: 1860-1911. -- Debussy: 1862-1918. -- Delius: 1862-1934. -- Richard Strauss: 1864-1949. -- Sibelius: 1865-1957. -- Joplin: 1868-1917.
Vaughan Williams: 1872-1958, Britten: 1913-1976. -- Rachmaninoff: 1873-1943. -- Schoenberg: 1874-1951. -- Ives: 1874-1954. -- Ravel: 1875-1937. -- Falla: 1876-1946, Albeniz: 1860-1909, Granados: 1867-1916. -- Bartok: 1881-1945. -- Stravinsky: 1882-1971. -- Prokofiev: 1891-1953. -- Gershwin: 1898-1937. -- Poulenc: 1899-1963. -- Shostakovich: 1906-1975. -- Shakespeare's influence on great composers. -- Christmas carols.
Summary: Examines the lives, philosophies, and music of the great composers.
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"Expanded & revised"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.

Introduction: Psalms in western music history. -- Schutz: 1585-1672. -- Vivaldi: 1678-1741. -- Bach: 1685-1750. -- Handel: 1685-1759. -- Haydn: 1732-1809. -- Mozart: 1756-1791. -- Beethoven: 1770-1827. -- Rossini: 1792-1868. -- Schubert: 1797-1828. -- Strauss family: nineteenth century. -- Berlioz: 1803-1869. -- Mendelssohn: 1809-1847. -- Chopin: 1810-1849. -- Robert Schumann: 1810-1856, Clara Schumann: 1819-1896. -- Liszt: 1811-1886. -- Wagner: 1813-1883. -- Verdi: 1813-1901. -- Bruckner: 1824-1896. -- Brahms: 1833-1897. -- Saint-Saens: 1835-1921. -- Tchaikovsky: 1840-1893. -- Dvorak: 1841-1904. -- Faure: 1845-1924. -- Puccini: 1858-1924. -- Mahler: 1860-1911. -- Debussy: 1862-1918. -- Delius: 1862-1934. -- Richard Strauss: 1864-1949. -- Sibelius: 1865-1957. -- Joplin: 1868-1917.

Vaughan Williams: 1872-1958, Britten: 1913-1976. -- Rachmaninoff: 1873-1943. -- Schoenberg: 1874-1951. -- Ives: 1874-1954. -- Ravel: 1875-1937. -- Falla: 1876-1946, Albeniz: 1860-1909, Granados: 1867-1916. -- Bartok: 1881-1945. -- Stravinsky: 1882-1971. -- Prokofiev: 1891-1953. -- Gershwin: 1898-1937. -- Poulenc: 1899-1963. -- Shostakovich: 1906-1975. -- Shakespeare's influence on great composers. -- Christmas carols.

Examines the lives, philosophies, and music of the great composers.

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