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The perfect music gift from one of the most trusted names in continuing education. Learn how to better appreciate music in this guide that will unlock the knowledge you need to understand “the most abstract and sublime of all the arts.”

Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to edify, enlighten, and stir the soul. In How to Listen to Great Music, Professor Robert Greenberg, a composer and music historian, presents a comprehensive, accessible guide to how music has mirrored Western history, that will transform the experience of listening for novice and long-time listeners alike.

You will learn how to listen for key elements in different genres of music—from madrigals to minuets and from sonatas to symphonies—along with the enthralling history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. You'll get answers to such questions as Why was Beethoven so important? How did the Enlightenment change music? And what's so great about opera anyway? How to Listen to Great Music will let you finally hear what you've been missing.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004IYIT7A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; 1st edition (April 26, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1431 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 354 pages
Reviewer: Doug
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent Read
Review: Everything Greenberg does is very worthy of reading or watching. He is a fantastic lecturer and teacher. He is interesting, has a great demeanor, and includes the right amount of humor to keep it interesting. I can’t say enough good things about him. I wish he would do more.

Reviewer: alexisbaor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The best
Review: I've bought Goulding's "Classical music, the 50 greatest composers and their 1,000 greatest works" and Libbey's "The NPR guide to building a classical CD collection". I must say they're two great books, but if I had to choose THE classical book for starters I would highly recommend the Greenberg's "How to listen to great music".It takes you by the hand accross the different eras, analyzing every period, explaining every detail, and decomposing every piece even using musical notation.It's just a pleasure to read this book, it even turns you into a happy mood.Obviously, you need to listen to the music he's explaining, and you may either look it up on youtube, or buy/download a CD.I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Reviewer: Edwin Keck
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: review of "How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to its History, Culture, and Heart..."
Review: How to listen to Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg (1954) I just read through this book and this book is a course unto itself with all the musical terminologies it gives.From giving deffinition of different music terminology to explaining the different genres and the periods from which they came this book covers everything of interest to the music listener.This book is a course in music history and evolution.Among the great composers that this book goes into are;Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis X1V's composer,George Frideric Handel's Overture to Messiah 1741,Johann Sebastian Bach 1686-1750,Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1841,Jacopo Peri 1561-1633,Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643,Joseph Haydn 1732-1809,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791,Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827,Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893,Hohannes Brahms 1833-1897,Franz Schubert 1797-1828,Richard Strauss 1864-1949,Frederoc Chopin 1810-1849,Franz Liszt 1811-1886,Hector Berlioz 1803-1869,Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901,Carl Maria von Weber 1786-1826,Richard Wagner 1813-1883,Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860,Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 1804-1857,Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov 1844-1908,Alexander Borodin 1833-1877,Gustav Mahler 1860-1911,Achille-Claude Debussy 1862-1918,Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971,Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951.This book describes how music is a product of its times and influence. A great read.

Reviewer: Placeholder
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Top choice for intelligent and entertaining classical music writing
Review: This author is extremely gifted, for careful ad thought provoking classical writing.You can see him on you tube and he is an extremely talented.This is easily the one book that you need if you are looking for 1 book to becoming a classical music lover.

Reviewer: Nightrider
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is a great book
Review: The good news: This is a stand-alone book based upon Robert Greenberg's wonderful Great Courses program of nearly the same title. This is NOT the course guidebook, but covers the same material... even the humor. It's a good purchase, even if you already own the course guidebook.

Reviewer: Ladybug
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not Fascinating
Review: I hoped for some thing a little more engaging to help me enjoy classical music more.

Reviewer: Songbird
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very well written!
Review: I found How to Listen to Great Music to be both entertaining and educational. Robert Greenberg writes with impressive clarity and vigor. I think this book will enhance your appreciation of concert music whether you are a novice looking for a great course in music and music history or you have been listening to concert music for many years and always delighted to learn more about it.

Reviewer: nnc
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Read
Review: This book is a wonderful read, both for musicians and for listeners. It is fast-paced and entertaining. You will learn a lot of music history and enjoy music even more as you gain an understanding of it. However, be warned that major composers have been left out, including Sibelius, Rachmonioff, Holst, Copland, Gershwin, Elgar, Prokofiev, Greig, Shostakovich, Schumann, Respighi, and others. I understand that if they all were included, the book would have been huge, but they could have been included in the Music Selections in the back of the book.

Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bonne introduction à la musique classique bien que va parfois un peu trop dans les détails à mon goût. Dans l'ensemble c'est un très bon livre !

Reviewer: Jose Ramon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excelente libro, da una contextualización importante a los temas que se abordan. Es didáctico para las personas que adoran la música y no la saben escribir.

Reviewer: Eduardo Vieira
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: O autor faz um excelente trabalho em tornar o assunto (a música erudita) fácil de entender para o leitor. E ele faz boas análises das composições, explicando as questões técnicas das composições e porque elas são importantes.Só senti falta de mais análises.O autor é um professor bastante prolífico no mundo digital. Ele produz uma miríade de cursos online. E eles parecem muito detalhados. O problema é que são muito caros.O livro na verdade me parece um cartão de visitas para seus cursos. Talvez por isso tenha ficado com essa impressão de que falta alguma coisa.Mas, com certeza, é um boa introdução ao assunto! O inglês é tranquilo. Podem comprar sem susto.ATUALIZAÇÃO: Os cursos online que citei (que estão disponíveis no Audible, site de audiobooks da Amazon), são simplesmente SENSACIONAIS! Vale muito a pena assinar a Audible só para baixa-los.

Reviewer: Sergei Makarinov
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book is very close to what I expected. A very good and quite useful one for those who are not active listeners of classical music but want to know more about it.

Reviewer: D. Aguero
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A very good book for beginners and intermediate music lovers. It contains in an organized manner a lot of the basic knowledge needed to appreciate classic music. It is inferior however to the book written by Austrian conductor Kurt Pahlen, which I read in Spanish, and which is the only one I would give 5 stars (http://www.amazon.com/maravilloso-mundo-musica-Spanish-Edition/dp/8420650935)For experienced music lovers, it is a good reminder of what we should know, but you will not learn anything new.Recommended.