An Introduction to Classical European Composers Including Performances
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Anthony Lowski
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Explore the works of classical composers. This book provides context before you listen to the piece and additional context afterwards. This audiobook format, including full recordings of relevant pieces, is an ideal way to familiarize yourself with the works of classical composers. This book focuses on European classical composers. The book includes the selected works of Franz Liszt, Edvard Grieg, Frederic Chopin, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Henry Purcell, and Antonin Dvorak.
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The Rest Is Noise
- Listening to the 20th Century
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 23 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 490
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 302
The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to downtown New York in the '60s and '70s. We meet the maverick personalities and follow the rise of mass culture on this sweeping tour of 20th-century history through its music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much!
- De Paula en 02-18-08
De: Alex Ross
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book
- De: Matthew Rubery
- Narrado por: Jim Denison
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison's recitation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for his tinfoil phonograph in 1877 to the first novel-length talking books made for blinded World War I veterans to today's billion-dollar audiobook industry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Historical Review of Audiobooks
- De Jean en 07-20-17
De: Matthew Rubery
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- De JK en 10-28-21
De: Orlando Figes
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent book
- De ML en 10-09-20
De: Alex Ross
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Write Songs Right Now
- De: Alex Forbes
- Narrado por: Alex Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs - an approach that been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kind of old wine in new skins, still good for that
- De Marc en 01-12-14
De: Alex Forbes
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Alan Lomax: A Biography
- The Man Who Recorded the World
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song. Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They Done Good
- De DonnaMarie113 en 06-26-22
De: John Szwed
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The Secret Life of the American Musical
- How Broadway Shows Are Built
- De: Jack Viertel
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great review lacked music
- De joseph f mcgovern en 10-14-18
De: Jack Viertel
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- De: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A revelation
- De Michael Cain en 05-24-20
De: Ovid, y otros
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The Divine Comedy
- De: Clive James - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,767
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,543
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,539
Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation - decades in the making - gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively listenable lyric poem. Written in the early 14th century and completed in 1321, the year of Dante’s death, The Divine Comedy is perhaps the greatest work of epic poetry ever composed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- De Tad Davis en 10-18-13
De: Clive James - translator, y otros
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On the Shoulders of Giants
- My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and best-selling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites listeners on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace. He leads us through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of both worlds
- De Marianne en 10-06-08
De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, y otros