Dimensions
139 x 217 x 29mm
How to Understand, Listen to and Enjoy Good Music.
If you love classical music and want to learn more about it, 'Inside Music' is the ideal guide whatever your level of expertise. Karl Haas will take you through every aspect of classical music in a readable, entertaining and informative manner. With clarity and perception, detail and anecdotes, he discusses the infinite pleasure of listening to music, the fundamentals of rhythm, melody, harmony tonal colour, and the evolution of musical instruments with examples of each one's role in the orchestral repertoire - together with 50 illustrations. He discusses the conductor and his art, over twenty musical categories and major period music from ancient times to twentieth-century Neo-classicism.
A unique and practical appendix will assist in compiling a home record library. Recommended recordings in all major categories of music are provided.
