Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music

This comprehensive and highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music is based on the fundamental principle of developing the skills to truly listen. In clear, entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introducing listeners to more than one hundred great works and profiling in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and others. Plotkin illustrates how each piece of music possesses its own sound world and defines major musical terms. He also makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated, and his conversations with important musicians offer fascinating insights into the art.