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What Makes It Great

What Makes It Great


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A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's What Makes It Great(TM)

Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece--which can be heard on the book's web site--transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history easy to grasp no matter what your musical background.

  • Explores the musical styles and genius of great classical composers, including Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy
  • Features an accompanying web site where you can see, hear, and download each short masterpiece and all of the book's musical examples
  • Introduces you in depth to popular pieces from the classical repertoire, including Spring from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), and Trepak from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
  • Written by acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist Rob Kapilow: You could practically see the light bulbs going on above people's heads (The Philadelphia Inquirer); Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does (The Boston Globe); A wonderful guy who brings music alive! (Katie Couric)

This book, along with the music on the companion web site, is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in classical music, whether first-time listener, experienced concertgoer or performing musician, offering an entree into the world of eighteen great composers and a collection of individual masterpieces spanning almost two hundred years.
About the Author: Rob Kapilow is a composer, conductor, pianist, author, and music commentator. His "What Makes It Great?" programs, which began on NPR, have been developed into full-length concert evenings that are a mainstay of Lincoln Center's "Great Performers" series and are also presented on a recurring basis in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City, in California at Cerritos, and in Canada at the Toronto Symphony. They have also been turned into CD recordings and video podcasts. He appears regularly throughout the United States and Canada, both with "What Makes It Great?" and "FamilyMusik," and has been featured in print and on television, including on NBC's "Today" show and "Live from Lincoln Center" on PBS. In 2008, his first book, "All You Have to Do Is Listen," was selected as the Best Book in Music & the Performing Arts by the Association of American Publishers. In 2009, he was the subject of "Summer Sun Winter Moon," a PBS documentary about his Lewis and Clark symphony in collaboration with a Blackfoot poet.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470550922
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 657 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0470550929
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Short Masterpieces, Great Composers
  • Width: 164 mm


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