The Classic FM Book "Classic Ephemera"

author: Darren Henley - Tim Lihoreau

A classical music omnibus

Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
Language: English
155 Pages - Paperback/Soft Cover
ISBN: 978-0-85162-467-9
Order number: BH 8000885

Price: £9.99
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Description

Classic FM's Classic Ephemera is an entertaining collection of quips and quirks from the world of classical music. This book contains nuggets of musical fact you didn't know you needed to know, and oodles of useful information you shouldn't be without. It includes a section on celebrated composers as well as potted plots of famous operas, retold as you've never heard them before. It's informative, engrossing, entertaining and often hilarious. Written by the authors of the Classic FM Pocket Books, this substantial volume of trivia should be on any serious music-lover's shelves.

Content

About the authors
Introduction
Classical music terms
Instruments of the orchestra
The great composers
Ten famous operas. What's actually going on?
Liszts
Dinner party trivia
Classical quotes
Index of composers

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