About this title: In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors. ...
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Description: Good. 0393021467 Library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780393021462ISBN:0393021467
Description: Good. Hardcover. Clean pages. Light wear on dust jacket. Free of markings. Free of highlighting. Book sturdy. Book is in good condition. Dust jacket is in good condition. - read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: W. W. Norton & Company, 1970 (Hardback with dj, dj work with chips and wrinkles, bookplate, some notations throughout, o/w contents in good condition) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780393021462ISBN:0393021467
Description: Good. Dust jacket is chipping, corner clipped and it has mylar protection on it. has stains on top edges. clear text. tight binding. read more
Edition: 2nd Rev ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393013023ISBN:0393013022
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. BOOK IS IN GREAT SHAPE. DUST JACKET SHOWS ONLY SHELF WEAR. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 653 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 2d ed, 2d ptg.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393013023ISBN:0393013022
Description: Book: Good. DJ: Good. 8vo. 653 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 ½. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Black glossy dj with moderate edgewear. Compression damage to book about 3" from bottom edge. read more
Edition: 2nd Rev ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780393013023ISBN:0393013022
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. Pages and illustrations are clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 653 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York
Date Published: [1970]
ISBN-13:9780393021462ISBN:0393021467
Description: Good in Good dust jacket. Dj w/minor wear, tears and fading. Unknown printing. 599 p. : illus. , ports. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 581-592. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780393021462ISBN:0393021467
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. book is in very good condition, pages are clean and unmarked, cover shows slight signs of wear, cover has slight rubbing and wear to spine and corners. 599 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: BCE
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., NY
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8v-Large. DJ bumped and chipped with edgewear. Cover bumped with edgewear. Spine has gold gilt writing. Pgs clean, tight and browning with age. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780393021462ISBN:0393021467
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Red cloth book with gold lettering on spine. Corners and spine lightly bumped. 599 pages with index 599 pages, bibligraphy, index, b/w illus. "...traces the consecutive line of composers from Johann Sebastian Bach to Arnold Schoenberg through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. " read more
Edition: Edition or Printing Not Stated
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: W. A. Norton
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good Plus. No Jacket. 8 1/2 X 6 1/4. 599 pages Pages are tight and clean. Binding very straight and firm. Board edges and corners good, some insignificant edge wear. If needed for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment this is the one. read more
"I only read the 24th chapter of this book, Surcharged Emotionalism PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (pg. 366-377), for history. Be that as it may, I will try to give a review based on what I read. I felt that this book is very special and unique in it's layout. Schonberg gives detailed information, but not so detailed that it feels as though you are reading a 300 paged biography. He tells of the personal life on the composer, but unlike most books which will perhaps list when the composer wrote a certain piece and leave it at that, Schonberg goes into the composer's thoughts on the piece and it's musical form as well as the critics' and public response. Overall a very nice mixture of the composer's privet, personal life and his musical education, compositions, and musical obligations. I felt that the author often times gave two sides or views to a score or situation. This gives the reader much more information than just "This was his greatest piece and this was his worst" or "This is the reason he did this and he died from this", etc. The right amount of general and inside information. Not too long, but not one of those books that when you finish the chapter on the composer you go, "Um...I already knew all that." I learned a lot about Tchaikovsky. His life, his personality, his opinions, and his composition style. There's pictures too! The book is written in time line order, and Schonberg shows how the lives of the composers overlapped and what they thought of each other. I only have one complaint about this book and that is that it did not have a chapter on Antonio Vivaldi, one of my favorite (if not my top favorite) composers. Otherwise it has a good verity of popular and not so popular composers. Not suggested for real young readers as many of the composer's (or at least Tchaikovsky's) lives are not very moral. I would very much like to get this book again and read more of it - love to read it cover to cover. A entertaining, informative collection of the great music creators!"
"This is the most fascinating book on music history that I've ever read. It is written completely with biographies on each major composer from the middle ages to the mid 1900s. Several of these chapters I've read and reread numerous times."
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