A Guide to Orchestral Music

The Handbook for Non-Musicians

By: Ethan Mordden

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Paperback | 1 January 1996

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Relaxed and accessible in style, this authoritative guide is the first symphony handbook for non-musicians. The book begins with a general introduction to the symphony and short pieces on the orchestra and musical styles. Mordden goes on to describe, chronologically, over 700 pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Further aids to the reader include two lists of repertory builders and a glossary of musical terms.
"Easy and pleasurable to read...a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews

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"The text is not only easy to read, but it is enlightening on form, style, and other essentials that will stimulate the attentive reader into a better grasp of what the composer intended to express and how well he expressed it. This is a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews "The text is not only easy to read, but it is enlightening on form, style, and other essentials that will stimulate the attentive reader into a better grasp of what the composer intended to express and how well he expressed it. This is a genuinely useful guide for the music lover who has not had a musical education but loves concert music."--John Barkham Reviews

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How To Use This Book	p. 3
General Introduction	p. 7
The Digest Guide for Dilletantes	p. 36
The Orchestra	p. 38
Surefire Initiations for Beginners	p. 41
Classic, Romantic, and Neo: A Guide to Style	p. 45
A Note on Performing Styles	p. 49

Antonio Vivaldi	p. 61
Johann Sebastian Bach	p. 65
George Frideric Handel	p. 74
Franz Josef Haydn	p. 78
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	p. 95
Ludwig van Beethoven	p. 118
Niccolo Paganini	p. 138
Carl Maria von Weber	p. 139
Franz Schubert	p. 144
Hector Berlioz	p. 151
Felix Mendelssohn	p. 162
Frederic Chopin	p. 171
Robert Schumann	p. 173
Franz Liszt	p. 179
Richard Wagner	p. 188
Cesar Franck	p. 199
Edouard Lalo	p. 203
Bedrich Smetana	p. 204
Anton Bruckner	p. 208
Carl Goldmark	p. 217
Alyeksandr Borodin	p. 219
Johannes Brahms	p. 221
Camille Saint-Saens	p. 232
Mily Balakiryef	p. 238
Georges Bizet	p. 240
Max Bruch	p. 243
Modyest Musorksky	p. 245
Pyotr Chaikofsky	p. 251
Antonin Dvorak	p. 264
Edvard Grieg	p. 276
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakof	p. 279
Gabriel Faure	p. 283
Vincent D'Indy	p. 286
Leos Janacek	p. 288
Ernest Chausson	p. 292
Edward Elgar	p. 293
Gustav Mahler	p. 301
Claude Debussy	p. 315
Frederick Delius	p. 321
Richard Strauss	p. 327
Carl Nielsen	p. 343
Paul Dukas	p. 348
Alyeksandr Glazunof	p. 350
Jean Sibelius	p. 351
Ferruccio Busoni	p. 364
Albert Roussel	p. 367
Alyeksandr Skryabin	p. 369
Ralph Vaughan Williams	p. 371
Syergyey Rachmaninof	p. 377
Gustav Holst	p. 382
Arnold Schonberg	p. 384
Charles Ives	p. 392
Maurice Ravel	p. 402
Reinholt Glier	p. 408
Manuel de Falla	p. 410
Carl Ruggles	p. 412
Erno Dohnanyi	p. 413
Ottorino Respighi	p. 414
Ernest Bloch	p. 416
Bela Bartok	p. 418
Heitor Villa-Lobos	p. 427
Zoltan Kodaly	p. 429
Igor Stravinsky	p. 431
Anton Webern	p. 446
Alban Berg	p. 449
Edgar Varese	p. 452
Bohuslav Martinu	p. 453
Jacques Ibert	p. 456
Syergyey Prokofyef	p. 457
Arthur Honegger	p. 469
Darius Milhaud	p. 472
Walter Piston	p. 474
Paul Hindemith	p. 478
Roger Sessions	p. 483
Virgil Thomson	p. 486
George Gershwin	p. 489
Roy Harris	p. 494
Francis Poulenc	p. 497
Kurt Weill	p. 500
Aaron Copland	p. 503
William Walton	p. 508
Aram Khatchaturyan	p. 510
Luigi Dallapiccola	p. 512
Dmitri Shostakovitch	p. 515
Olivier Messiaen	p. 526
Elliott Carter	p. 529
Samuel Barber	p. 531
William Schuman	p. 535
Alan Hovhaness	p. 537
Benjamin Britten	p. 540
Leonard Bernstein	p. 544
Hans Werner Henze	p. 548
Glossary	p. 551
Index	p. 557
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A Guide to Orchestral Music

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