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Category: Composers
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This took me quite a while to read as it was incredibly detail dense, filled with a huge amount of information. I really enjoyed (paid link) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff despite how long it took me to navigate my way through the mass of detail. This was a very scholarly…
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I am currently reading a combination of four music related books of which I am different states of progress, in some cases only having read the introduction and contents. This is aside from the biography (paid link) ‘Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician’ by Christoph Wolff, that I have currently stalled on. The other books…
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I have been enjoying watching videos of film music composers on youtube lately. Why have I been doing this? Well, there are plenty of them and I think that it is interesting to see the composers of film music that we often hear as part of a film, but just as often almost do not…
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This was an interesting read, humorous and insightful in equal measure. His basic premise that everyone is musical by nature is one that he spends the rest of the book proving to us in ways that we had never even thought. It is a series of short, but profound essays, interspersed with funny, or revealing…
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I have the kindle version of this book, and I really enjoyed reading it. It was wholly instructive to hear from a composer of the caliber of Aaron Copland about how to listen to music analytically and with focus and intent. It is written in an engaging way making use of generally non-technical language to…
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I really enjoyed this book, or should I call it a tome at over 750 pages, by Harold C. Shonberg. Shonberg provides fascinating biographies of many of the great composers ranging from Monteverdi to latter 20th Century composers. Written in a clear, concise, but very entertaining fashion, it is a wonderful way to familiarize oneself…