Bach, Beethoven and the boys
Subtitle: music history as it ought to be taught
By: David W. Barber ; [illustrations, Dave Donald ; preface, Anthony Burgess]
Contributors: Donald, David C.
Edition: 10th-anniversary ed.
Publisher: Sound and Vision
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780920151105
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Composers; Humor; Humour; Humoristische Darstellung; History and criticism; Histoire et critique; Compositeurs; Music; Geschichte; Musique; Musik
Table of contents: title: Getting the ball rolling. Early music; title: Now we're getting somewhere. Josquin. Palestrina. Gesualdo; title: A few Englishman. Byrd. Clarke. Purcell; title: Going Baroque. Monteverdi. Vivaldi. Bach. Handel; title: Some classic examples. Haydn. Mozart; title: Those Romantic types. Beethoven. Wagner. Brahams; title: Follow the leider. Schubert. Schumann; title: The Russians ar coming, the Russians are coming. The mighty five. Tchaikovsky; title: A ridiculously short history of opera. Opera; title: The mess we're in now. Stravinsky. Schoenberg. The English county gardeners. Ives; title: Where do we go from here? Cage. Coda.