The Listener's Musical CompanionHaggin's (1900-1987) classic of (Western) music appreciation for general listeners, compiled, edited, and updated by Thomas Hathaway, who has incorporated supplementary material appended by Haggin to previous editions (of which there are seven), other writing of Haggin's outside the book, and his own (Hathaway's) select list of current recommended recordings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
The Reader and the Critic | 3 |
Beethoven | 12 |
Schubert | 23 |
Mozart | 31 |
Haydn | 55 |
Berlioz | 64 |
Bach | 84 |
Other Music of the Eighteenth Century | 95 |
Mahler | 167 |
Music of the Twentieth CenturyI | 174 |
Music of the Twentieth CenturyII | 189 |
American Music | 204 |
Criticism | 221 |
Musical Procedures and the Forms They Produce | 238 |
Musical FormsII | 252 |
Two Mozart Andantes | 274 |
Music of Earlier Centuries | 100 |
Brahms | 108 |
Verdi | 117 |
Tchaikovsky | 123 |
Musorgsky | 129 |
Other Music of the Nineteenth Century | 144 |
Richard Strauss | 161 |
Performance | 285 |
Great Performers | 291 |
Recorded Performances | 386 |
Bibliography | 471 |
Index of Terms | 477 |
Index of Jazz Musicians | 488 |
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