Publisher's Synopsis
Music is the very spread form of art, which enchanted the human society from very early times.
Based on sound as medium, on common elements as pitch, rhythm, dynamics and on sonic qualities as timbre and texture, the music completed and enriched the life of people being a natural part of their development.
Classical music is a general term about the secular and religious art music of the Western music of the broad stretch of time from the years of 11th century to the present day, which includes more periods: medieval (1100-1400 years), renaissance (1400-1600 years), baroque (1600-1750 years), classical (1750-1820 years) romanticism (1800-1910 years)
Classical music composers of great renown are: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvorák, Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Aram Khachaturian
Their works and others' are subjects of the one hundred and seventy-five enjoyable musical programmes from this book. Bring them to life!
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