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For the love of music : a conductor's guide to the art of listening / John Mauceri.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525520658
  • 0525520651
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • MT90 .M287 2019
Contents:
Why music? -- The heart of the matter -- Harnessing (human) nature -- Time: real and imaginary -- Invisible structures -- Pay attention! -- The first time: weaving the web of continuity -- The concert experience -- Your playlist, your life.
Summary: A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. He leads us to an understanding of what we hear when we listen to classical music: how it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks MT90 .M287 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001494961

Includes index.

Why music? -- The heart of the matter -- Harnessing (human) nature -- Time: real and imaginary -- Invisible structures -- Pay attention! -- The first time: weaving the web of continuity -- The concert experience -- Your playlist, your life.

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. He leads us to an understanding of what we hear when we listen to classical music: how it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.

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