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Author: Matt74
Date: 2021-07-07 08:59
Does anyone know of a Youtube, Soundcloud, etc. playlist that has all (or most) of the printed examples from "The Classical Style"?
Ideally, I'd just like to have the excerpts printed in the text, not the whole works. It seems like it shouldn't be too hard for a professor or somebody, but I can't play keyboard, so I'm pretty helpless. I can't "hear" it by looking at the notes. Trying to listen to the whole works, or finding the excerpts, would be pretty much impossible while trying to read the text.
I'm going to put it in the category of "books that make you feel dumb", along with "Fowler's Modern English Usage".
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2021-07-08 06:39)
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2021-07-07 15:55
I don't know of such a play list, but that's a good idea. I have a nagging memory of a cd accompanying either that book or one of his other ones, but I donated those a few years ago and cannot check. Rosen was a remarkable writer, one of a very few who could write effectively about music. His books were technically oriented and illustrated throughout with score excerpts. They often went over my head, but they were great reads even for an uneducated music lover like me.
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Author: brycon
Date: 2021-07-08 02:02
I love that book so much. Although the music theory behind it is a bit out of date, Rosen's writing shows so much enthusiasm for the music and moves among art, philosophy, politics, etc. with so much ease that it's hard not to get caught up in it.
At any rate, I'm not aware of any accompanying recordings. I find that Oxford Press is pretty good about providing supplemental websites with recordings, pdfs, etc. but Classical Style is a Norton Press book (if I remember correctly) and somewhat old.
If you'll forgive a bit of advice: When I was going through Schenker's Free Composition, I had to download pdfs of all the scores because, as is typical with Schenker's writings, only voice-leading graphs are provided. So I sat with the score open up next to the graph, listened through the entire piece several times, played through parts of them on the piano, made my own graphs to compare to Schenker's, and just took my time. It took a while, perhaps a year or so, to get through the book, but I got so much more out of it than if I had looked only at the excerpts. Unless you're cramming for a grad-school comprehensive exam, why not look at and listen to all the music and enjoy it!
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