For the love of music : a conductor's guide to the art of listening / John Mauceri.
"With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience--a unique one each and every time--allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them."-- Provided by Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 0525520651
- ISBN: 9780525520658
- Physical Description: 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
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- Subject:
- Music appreciation.
- Genre:
- Music.
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- 8 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Marion Library | 781.17 MAU (Text) | 37810435775787 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | 781.17 Mau (Text) | 31010000691248 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Etowah Branch | 781.17 M (Text) | 33258009877031 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/07/2026 |
| Goldsboro Library | 781.17 MAU (Text) | 900000000850983 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 781.17 M (Text) | 33258009877023 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | 781.17 Mauceri (Text) | 30519010722893 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hudson (Fontana) | 781.17 MAU (Text) | 39493108623234 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| South Buncombe/Skyland Library | 781.17 MAU (Text) | 0020512384650 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Transylvania County Library | 781.17 MAU (Text) | 38079102607215 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
