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Scott Speck. Classical Music For Dummies
Classical Music For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Classical Music For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Getting Started with Classical Music
Prying Open the Classical Music Oyster
Discovering What Classical Music Really Is
Figuring Out What You Like
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Composers
Their music is from the heart
They use a structure that you can feel
They’re creative and original
They express a relevant human emotion
They keep your attention with variety and pacing
Their music is easy to remember
They move you with their creations
The Entire History of Music in 80 Pages
Understanding How Classical Music Got Started
Chanting All Day: The Middle Ages
Gregorian chant
A monk named Guido
Mass dismissed!
The First Composer-Saint
Born Again: The Renaissance
The madrigal takes off
Opera hits prime time
Getting Emotional: The Baroque Era
Renegade notes on wheels
Kings, churches, and other high rollers
Antonio Vivaldi
The little priest that couldn’t
The Wayward Girls Philharmonic
Listening to Vivaldi’s music
George Frideric Handel
The most Italian of German Brits
“Get a Handel on yourself!”
A ROYAL DISASTER
Listening to Handel’s music
Johann Sebastian Bach
A few minor posts
The organmeister
Prolific in more ways than one
Listening to Bach’s music
Tightening the Corset: The Classical Style
Joseph Haydn
Life at Esterházy’s Castle
Going into Haydn
HAYDN THE SOPRANO
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart joins the circus
Mozart gets a kick in the pants
Mozart makes a living
The Minuteman
Farewell to Papa Haydn
Listening to Mozart
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Ludwig van Beethoven: The man who changed everything
Papa Haydn teaches Ludwig a thing or two
The Heroic Symphony
THE PENDULUM OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
Taking the Fifth
From sketch to final symphony
Hearing Beethoven
Schubert and his Lieder
Schubert evenings
Unfinished!
The Songmeister
Piano for two
Schubert in the record store
Felix Mendelssohn
The piano that wouldn’t die
Mendelssohn rediscovers Bach
HE’S JUST THAT GOOD
The sounds of Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn
Falling in Love: Hopeless Romantics
Carl Maria von Weber
Hector Berlioz
Berlioz nearly dies at a dissection
Creating a new kind of music
Berlioz puts on a dress
A fantastique story
Berlioz on your MP3 player
Frédéric Chopin
A Polish boyhood
Tiny digits, big heart
FRED, GEORGE. GEORGE, FRED
Shoppin’ for Chopin
Robert Schumann
Another prodigy
Desperately seeking Clara
A true Romantic
Listening to Schumann
Johannes Brahms
A lucky break
The big leagues
Boning up on Brahms
The superstars: Paganini and Liszt
Liszt follows Paganini’s lead
Richard Wagner
An opera guy
Listening to Wagner
Strauss and Mahler
Richard Strauss: the tone painter
Strauss on recording
Gustav Mahler, neurotic
The Mahler experience
Saluting the Flag(s): Nationalism in Classical Music
Bedřich Smetana
A river runs through it
Keeping an ear out for Smetana
Antonín Dvořák
Cheerful success
An invitation to America
Listening to Dvořák
Edvard Grieg
Boosting Norwegian morale
Recordings of Grieg
Jean Sibelius
Hearing Sibelius
Carl Nielsen
Nielsen for the record …
Glinka and the Mighty Fistful
Best of five
A fistful of mighty pieces
Peter Tchaikovsky
We got trouble
Pain and music
Listening to Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei gets hypnotized
Rocky on recording
Listening to Music of the 20th Century and Beyond
Debussy and Ravel
Debussy on your MP3 player
Unraveling Ravel
Recordings of Ravel
Igor Stravinsky
The Petrushka Chord
The most famous premiere in music history
After the Rites
Stravinsky for the record
Sergei Prokofiev
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri dgets in dtrouble
Dmitri’s revenge
Listen to Shostakovich
The Second Viennese School
Serial music: It isn’t just for breakfast anymore
A box of serial music and assorted goodies
The Americans
Aaron Copland
SCHOENBERG EXPLAINED — SOMEWHAT
George Gershwin
William Grant Still
Florence Price
Samuel Barber
And more …
American music for the record …
PEOPLE WHO HATE COMPOSERS (AND THE COMPOSERS WHO LOVE THEM)
Spotting a Sonata
Symphonies
First movement: brisk and lively
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SYMPHONY
Second movement: slow and lyrical
Third movement: dancy
Finale: rollicking
Sonatas and Sonatinas
Concertos
Concerto structure
The cadenza
Dances and Suites
Serenades and Divertimentos
Themes and Variations
Fantasias and Rhapsodies
Tone Poems (Or Symphonic Poems)
Lieder (and Follower)
Leader of the Lieder
Song forms
Oratorios and Other Choral Works
Operas, Operettas, and Arias
Overtures and Preludes
Ballets and Ballerinas
String Quartets and Other Motley Assortments
Why Do You Need a Form, Anyway?
Listen Up!
Dave ’n’ Scott’s E-Z Concert Survival Guide™
Preparing — or Not
Knowing When to Arrive at the Concert
Can I Wear a Loincloth to The Rite of Spring?
The Gourmet Guide to Pre-Concert Dining
Figuring Out Where to Sit — and How to Get the Best Ticket Deals
To Clap or Not to Clap: That’s the Question
Why nobody claps
More on the insane “no-clap” policy
Who to Bring and Who to Leave at Home with the Dog
Recognizing Which Concerts to Attend — or Avoid — on a Date
Peeking at the Concert Program
The typical concert format
The music itself
A different kind of program
Introducing the Concertmaster
Finding the pitch
Twisting and turning, pulling and pushing
A-440: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Enter the Conductor
Understanding interpretation
Slicing up time
Reading the job description
TOP QUOTES BY CONDUCTOR EUGENE ORMANDY
For Your Listening Pleasure
1 Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2: Alla Hornpipe
2 Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue in C Major
3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat, Third Movement
4 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, First Movement
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
Coda
5 Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Third Movement
6 Dvořák: Serenade for Strings, Fourth Movement
7 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Fourth Movement
8 Debussy: La Mer: Dialogue du Vent et de la Mer
9 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Opening to the End of Jeu de Rapt
Introduction
Danses des adolescentes (Dances of the Adolescent Girls)
Jeu de rapt (Ritual of Abduction)
Backstage Tour
Living in the Orchestral Fishpond
What I Did for Love
HOW ABOUT A LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP?
Going through an Audition
An almost-true story
Rigged auditions
The list
The prescription
Playing the odds
An unexpected meeting
The return
Onstage
Behind the screen
The wait
The aftermath
The Life of an Orchestra Musician, or What’s Going on in the Practice Room?
Selling the Product
Understanding Contract Riders
The Strange and Perilous Relationship between an Orchestra and Its Conductor
Why an Orchestra Career Is Worth the Grief
A Field Guide to the Orchestra
Keyboards & Co
The Piano
Looking inside the piano
Naming the notes
Finding an octave
Playing the black keys
Looking inside the piano
Pressing down the pedals
Hearing the piano
The Harpsichord
Winning the Baroque gold medal
Hearing the harpsichord
The Organ
Pulling out the stops
Hearing the organ
The Synthesizer
Strings Attached
The Violin
Drawing the bow
Tuning up
Playing the violin
Vibrating the string
The unbearable lightness of bowing
FREE BOWING
Plucking the strings
Hearing the violin
The Other String Instruments
The viola
A COMPENDIUM OF VIOLA JOKES
The cello
The double bass
The harp
The guitar
UNUSUAL STRING INSTRUMENTS
Gone with the Woodwinds
The Flute
Making music out of thin air
Hearing the flute
The Piccolo
The Oboe
MAKING AN OBOE REED AT HOME
Playing the oboe
Hearing the oboe
The English Horn
The Clarinet
Transposing instruments
Hearing the clarinet
The Saxophone
The Bassoon
CHAPTERETTE: THE VOICE
The Top (and Bottom) Brass
Making a Sound on a Brass Instrument
ABOUT THAT SPIT
The French Horn
Hunting for notes: The natural horn
Adding valves: The modern, treacherous horn
Hearing the French horn
The Trumpet
Tonguing
Using mutes
Hearing the trumpet
The Trombone
Sliding around
FOR SPARKLING CLEAN BRASSES …
Hearing the trombone
The Tuba
A gaggle of tubas
Hearing the tuba
Pet Peeves of the Brassily Inclined
Percussion’s Greatest Hits
The Timpani
Drum roll, please!
Hearing the timpani
The Bass Drum
The Cymbals
The Snare Drum
The Xylophone
Other Xylo-like Instruments
More Neat Instruments Worth Banging
The triangle
The tambourine
The tam-tam and gong
The castanets
The whip
The cowbell
The ratchet
Peeking into the Composer’s Brain
The Dreaded Music Theory Chapter
I’ve Got Rhythm: The Engine of Music
Dividing up time
Feeling the beat
Sight-reading for the first time
Making notes longer
Making notes shorter
Adding a dot
Taking the final exam
I’M A FERMATA — HOLD ME
Understanding Pitch: Beethoven at 5,000 rpm
Performing an experiment for the betterment of mankind
12 pitches!
Notating pitches
Reading music
Deciphering key signatures
Figuring out the key
Dave ’n’ Scott’s 99.9999% Key-Determining Method
Why we have keys
Making the Leap into Intervals
The major second
The major third
The fourth
The fifth
The major sixth
The major seventh
The octave
Telling the difference: major and minor intervals
The minor second
The minor third
The minor fifth (not!) — aka the tritone
The minor sixth
The minor seventh
Getting on the Scale
Constructing a Melody
Getting Two-Dimensional: Piece and Harmony
Major, minor, and insignificant chords
Friends and relations: harmonic progressions
Friends, Romans, chord progressions
Listening to the oldies
Put in Blender, Mix Well
Getting Your Music Theory Degree
Once More, with Feeling: Tempo, Dynamics, and Orchestration
Meet the Dynamics Duo: Soft and Loud
Honey, I shrunk the LoudSoft™
Wearing Italian hairpins
Getting into matters of sonic taste
Throwing Tempo Tantrums
Telling ’Bones from Heckelphones: Orchestration Made Easy
Playing with sound colors
Notating orchestrations
Who’s the orchestrator?
The Part of Tens
The Ten Most Common Misconceptions about Classical Music
Classical Music Is Boring
Classical Music Is for Snobs
All Modern Concert Music Is Hard to Listen to
They Don’t Write Classical Music Anymore
You Have to Dress Up to Go to the Symphony
If You Haven’t Heard of the Guest Artist, She Can’t Be Any Good
Professional Musicians Have It Easy
The Best Seats Are Down Front
Clapping between Movements Is Illegal, Immoral, and Fattening
Classical Music Can’t Change Your Life
The Ten Best Musical Terms for Cocktail Parties
Atonal
Cadenza
Concerto
Counterpoint
Crescendo
Exposition
Intonation
Orchestration
Repertoire
Rubato
Tempo
Using Your New-Found Mastery
Ten Great Classical Music Jokes
Master of Them All
The Heavenly Philharmonic
Brass Dates
The Late Maestro
Basses Take a Breather
Houseless Violist
Ludwig’s Grave
The Weeping Violist
Musicians’ Revenge
One Last Viola Joke
Ten Ways to Get More Music in Your Life
Get Involved with Your Orchestra
Join a Classical Music Tour
Meet the Artists — Be a Groupie
Make Music Friends on the Internet
Join an Unlimited Music Service
Listen to Your Local Classical Station
Load Up on Your Own Recordings
Watch Classical Music Movies
Study Up on the Classics
Make Your Own Music
The Appendixes
Listen to This! Starting a Classical Music Collection
List 1: Old Favorites
List 2: MILD on the Taste Meter
List 3: MEDIUM on the Taste Meter
List 4: MEDIUM HOT on the Taste Meter
List 5: HOT on the Taste Meter
Classical Music Timeline
Glossary
Index. A
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About the Authors
Dedication
Authors’ Acknowledgments
WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
