Scott Speck - Classical Music For Dummies

She Can’t Be Any Good Professional Musicians Have It Easy The Best Seats Are Down Front Clapping between Movements Is Illegal, Immoral, and Fattening Classical Music Can’t Change Your Life Chapter 14: The Ten Best Musical Terms for Cocktail Parties Atonal Cadenza Concerto Counterpoint Crescendo Exposition Intonation Orchestration Repertoire Rubato Tempo Using Your New-Found Mastery Chapter 15: Ten Great Classical Music Jokes Master of Them All The Heavenly Philharmonic Brass Dates The Late Maestro Basses Take a Breather Houseless Violist Ludwig’s Grave The Weeping Violist Musicians’ Revenge One Last Viola Joke Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Get More Music in Your Life Get Involved with Your Orchestra Join a Classical Music Tour Meet the Artists — Be a Groupie Make Music Friends on the Internet Join an Unlimited Music Service Listen to Your Local Classical Station Load Up on Your Own Recordings Watch Classical Music Movies Study Up on the Classics Make Your Own Music

10 Part 6: The Appendixes Appendix A: Listen to This! Starting a Classical Music Collection List 1: Old Favorites List 2: MILD on the Taste Meter List 3: MEDIUM on the Taste Meter List 4: MEDIUM HOT on the Taste Meter List 5: HOT on the Taste Meter Appendix B: Classical Music Timeline Appendix C: Glossary

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12 About the Authors

13 Connect with Dummies

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1 Chapter 12TABLE 12-1 Dynamic Markings DemystifiedTABLE 12-2 Tempo Markings Made Comprehensible

1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Giovanni da Palestrina, one of the greatest composers of the Renais...FIGURE 2-2: The florid Baroque style. FIGURE 2-3: George Frideric Handel, composer of Messiah and other great oratori...FIGURE 2-4: Johann Sebastian Bach, master of the organ. FIGURE 2-5: Joseph Haydn, a merry old soul. FIGURE 2-6: At left, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, boy wonder. At right, Mozart in h...FIGURE 2-7: Ludwig van Beethoven changed everything. FIGURE 2-8: Franz Schubert (1797–1828), one of the most prolific songwriters in...FIGURE 2-9: Felix Mendelssohn, the man who rediscovered Bach. FIGURE 2-10: Carl Maria von Weber, one of the earliest Romantic composers and a...FIGURE 2-11: Hector Berlioz: Romantic, visionary, compositional genius, loony t...FIGURE 2-12: Frédéric Chopin revolutionized the sound of the piano. FIGURE 2-13: Robert Schumann, one of the foremost German Romantic composers. FIGURE 2-14: Johannes Brahms, one of the greatest of all composers of classical...FIGURE 2-15: Niccolò Paganini (left) and Franz Liszt, classical music’s first s...FIGURE 2-16: Richard Wagner, the height of German Romantic music. FIGURE 2-17: Richard Strauss (left) and Gustav Mahler, two of the most ardent d...FIGURE 2-18: Antonín Dvořák. FIGURE 2-19: The Norwegian Edvard Grieg (left) was one of the most well-known n...FIGURE 2-20: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the best of the Russian Romantic compose...FIGURE 2-21: Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Russian piano master. FIGURE 2-22: Claude Debussy was one of the brightest lights on the Impression-i...FIGURE 2-23: Igor Stravinsky, the most important composer of the 20th century. FIGURE 2-24: Aaron Copland (left) and George Gershwin, two of America’s most be...

2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: A metronome helps composers mark time. FIGURE 4-2: A conductor’s beat pattern indicates the different beats of the mus...

3 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: The notes of the piano keyboard. FIGURE 6-2: A grand piano (top) and an upright piano (bottom). FIGURE 6-3: A harpsichord with a double keyboard. FIGURE 6-4: A pipe organ.

4 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: A violin with a bow. FIGURE 7-2: The cello, the string instrument that sounds most like the human vo...FIGURE 7-3: The double bass, granddaddy of the string section, plays the lowest...FIGURE 7-4: The harp, all 47 strings of it. FIGURE 7-5: A guitar’s fingerboard has frets.

5 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The flute. FIGURE 8-2: Still life: Oboe, with reed. FIGURE 8-3: A clarinet. FIGURE 8-4: The saxophone. FIGURE 8-5: The bassoon.

6 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: The modern French horn. FIGURE 9-2: The trumpet. FIGURE 9-3: The trombone. FIGURE 9-4: The tuba.

7 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: A timpani. FIGURE 10-2: The Glockenspiel and the triangle. FIGURE 10-3: Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man — here’s your instrument!

8 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: A musical timeline, otherwise known as the musical staff, with bar...FIGURE 11-2: Four beats to the measure. FIGURE 11-3: Different notation, same meaning. FIGURE 11-4: Twinkle, twinkle! FIGURE 11-5: Name that tune! FIGURE 11-6: The albino half note. FIGURE 11-7: The whole note. FIGURE 11-8: The joining of the eighths. FIGURE 11-9: Sweet sixteenths. FIGURE 11-10: Your rhythmic reading final exam. FIGURE 11-11: An octave of notes, from A to shining A. FIGURE 11-12: The glorious G clef! FIGURE 11-13: Where the other notes of the alphabet go. FIGURE 11-14: Presenting the amazing colossal infinite staff! FIGURE 11-15: A feat of legerdemain: ledger lines. FIGURE 11-16: The bass clef, featuring the Klingon F. FIGURE 11-17: The treble and bass clefs: together at last. FIGURE 11-18: An example of some piano music. FIGURE 11-19: Sharps and flats. FIGURE 11-20: Maybe reading music isn’t as difficult as nuclear physics after a...FIGURE 11-21: Count the F-sharps. FIGURE 11-22: A key signature. FIGURE 11-23: Examples of three different key signatures. FIGURE 11-24: You can play “Joy to the World” by starting on C and playing each...FIGURE 11-25: ”Joy to the World” again — but this time in the key of D. FIGURE 11-26: Can you determine the keys of these pieces from their last notes?...FIGURE 11-27: The major second interval in one of your favorite Christmas songs...FIGURE 11-28: Dance all night to this interval, baby! FIGURE 11-29: Here comes the fourth! FIGURE 11-30: Pick up a fifth of musical pleasure with this interval. FIGURE 11-31: Try getting a sixth sense of this interval. FIGURE 11-32: In Oz, the octave reigns. FIGURE 11-33: The minor second. FIGURE 11-34: No matter what color your sleeves, you should be able to hear the...FIGURE 11-35: Beware the devil’s interval — the unholy tritone! FIGURE 11-36: Love that minor sixth interval! FIGURE 11-37: There’s an interval for us — the minor seventh. FIGURE 11-38: A major scale can start anywhere, even on a D, if you skip over k...FIGURE 11-39: It’s Brahms! FIGURE 11-40: The two-dimensional shape of music: melody and harmony. FIGURE 11-41: The C major chord (left) and the C minor chord (right). FIGURE 11-42: Starting at C, you can denote the different keys by using Roman n...FIGURE 11-43: These three songs all use the three notes of the C chord for thei...FIGURE 11-44: Passing tones aplenty.

9 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: A sheet of score paper, showing which instruments play what.

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2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Table of Contents

5 Begin Reading

6 Appendix A: Listen to This! Starting a Classical Music Collection

7 Appendix B: Classical Music Timeline

8 Appendix C: Glossary

9 Index

10 About the Authors

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