Classical composers
Subtitle: the lives and works of the great musical creators of the medieval, Baroque and Classical eras, with 200 illustrations
By: Wendy Thompson
Publisher: Southwater
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781844767267
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Notes: Originally published: 2002.

Previously published as part of a larger volume, The Great Composers.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: History of composition : Music as a language; title: Emergence of composers; title: Baroque forms; title: Transition to classicism; title: Classical composers : The Middle Ages to the Renaissance; title: Medieval and polyphonic music; title: Hildegard of Bingen; title: The Notre-Dame school; title: Guillaume de Machaut; title: Guillaume Dufay; title: Johannes Ockeghem; title: Josquin des Prez; title: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; title: Orlande de Lasus; title: Tomas Luis de Victoria; title: Thomas Tallis; title: william Byrd; title: Carlo Gesualdo; title: English madrigal school; title: Other composers of the era; title: The Baroque era; title: Harmony and ornament; title: Claudio Monteverdi; title: Heinrich Schutz; title: Jean-Baptiste Lully; title: Arcangelo Corelli; title: Henry Purcell; title: Antonio Vivaldi; title: Johann Pachelbel; title: Dietrich Buxtehude; title: Johann Sebastian Bach; title: George Frideric Handel; title: Domenico Scarlatti; title: Jean-Philippe Rameau; title: Other composers of the era; title: The classical period; title: Music of the Enlightenment; title: Christoph Willibald Gluck; title: Joseph Haydn; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Ludwig van Beethoven; title: Franz Schubert; title: Other composers of the era.