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Whaaaaaaaaat!?: I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide

Whaaaaaaaaat!?: I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide

Bathory-Kitsz, Dennis

Paperback

Music Reference

ISBN10: 1530729521
ISBN13: 9781530729524
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 13 2016
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Whaaaaaaaaat!? I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide is a tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel classical music is forbidding, complex and grandiose. It is a concise and helpful book with humor and insight written by a composer and performer with a lifetime of experience. Beginning with patterns, pitches and instruments, author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from performers to shrieking singers to the mysterious classical codes, from Beethoven (the great hulk of a man) through space music, tone poems, nationalism, and even composers insulting each other. Written in response to a student's plea for help (I'm desperate! I don't get classical music!), the book is not stuck in the distant past. Instead, Whaaaaaaaaat!? includes classical music-which the composer prefers to call nonpop-from ancient times right up to the present day, from Gregorian chant through electrons and gongs to nonpop fused with pop. Writes one of his students, it accomplishes what a textbook does without being a textbook. Another says, It gets right into the dirty details of Western music and does so in a way that makes even the most novice listener feel like a professional. Explored and critiqued by more than two dozen readers from complete amateurs to working professionals, Whaaaaaaaaat!? is insightful, exuberant, funny and, according to one music professor, terrifically valuable as a corrective to bad thinking and its offspring, bad teaching. In a short, readable 100 pages, Bathory-Kitsz shares the madness and mystery of classical music.

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