{"product_id":"9780679728054","title":"The Vintage Guide to Classical Music","description":"The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:\u003cbr\u003e-- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times;\u003cbr\u003e-- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement;\u003cbr\u003e-- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds;\u003cbr\u003e-- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.","brand":"Jan Swafford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45893593596116,"sku":"9780679728054","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4ebe874e-a36d-455e-a18d-dcdea3e3bad4.jpg?v=1732351851","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780679728054","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}