{"product_id":"the-vintage-guide-to-classical-music-isbn-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.Composer and writer Jan Swafford received degrees from Harvard and the Yale School of Music; his work has been played throughout the United States and abroad. Among his awards are an NEA Composers Grant, a Tanglewood Fellowship and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305489486053,"sku":"NP9780679728054","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679728054.jpg?v=1767742087","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-vintage-guide-to-classical-music-isbn-9780679728054","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}