TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanley, John.
TI  - Classical music: the great composers and their masterworks 
SN  - 1845331583
AV  - R ML 390 .St25 2005 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Mitchell Beazley
KW  - Composers
KW  - sears
KW  - Music appreciation
N2  - Introduces a broad sample of the world's greates classical music from the past 900 years.Discusses the place of music in Western societyand the changing role of the composers over the centuries along with the basic tools of classical music-the instruments and how they have appeared in various groups and ensembles -and the human voice.Also consists of studies of of the life & works of 150 composers,They appear in chronologica order,based on their dates of major compositional activity,and cover the whole period from around 1100 to the present day
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