The Harmonia Mundi label's La musique des siècles/A History of Music series is highly recommended in general; its 20 discs will introduce the entire history of classical music, with a distinct emphasis on the earlier eras. Each disc comes with a map (no small thing), a set of about two dozen pieces or excerpt relevant to the theme, and notes in Socratic question-and-answer format that provide a short overview of the basic issues the new listener encounters in hearing the music fresh. Since most of the major music history ...
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The Harmonia Mundi label's La musique des siècles/A History of Music series is highly recommended in general; its 20 discs will introduce the entire history of classical music, with a distinct emphasis on the earlier eras. Each disc comes with a map (no small thing), a set of about two dozen pieces or excerpt relevant to the theme, and notes in Socratic question-and-answer format that provide a short overview of the basic issues the new listener encounters in hearing the music fresh. Since most of the major music history textbooks are weighty tomes that have suffered from an accretion of detail in recent years, it would be interesting to try using this set of discs, supplemented by individual readings, for a short course in music appreciation, as, for example, at a community college.The chief objection to this series, the lack of texts provided for vocal music, of course does not apply on this disc, which covers the rise of independent genres of notated instrumental music in the sixteenth century....
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Add this copy of L'Mergence De La Musique Instrumentale / the Rise of to cart. $12.55, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lynden, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Harmonia Mundi.
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