10 Comments on "Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB"

• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersVery good informative and entertaining But far too US centric Almost all of the 20th century composers listed were American or lived in the USA Where was Vaughan Williams Prokofiev Grainger Delius and Britten and these had plenty of dark secrets to be revealed Most alarming of all where was Schubert who must be on everybody's list of the 10 most important composers

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersI have already read the Secret Lives of Great Artists so I had a rough idea of what to expect with this book Being a classical music fan I was interested to know some interesting snippets of infomation on my favourite composers What I recieved was a very well put togther encyclopedia of fun facts with each chapter being separated into time frames in with each composer was in their prime Definately would recomended as the book is a plesant light hearted read if

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersHighbrow bathroom reader Enjoyable trivia Certainly easier going than Schonberg's Lives of the Great Composers Not that you would want to replace that one

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersBuy it for the priceless pic of Schoenberg and the demons of atonality Cute irreverant look the great western classical composers

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersLOVE this book and wish I had it in undergrad as a companion to my music history courses Very informative and entertaining and makes the old dead guys come to life

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersI've always enjoyed reading the program notes at orchestra concerts I am not a music theorist nor a musician so I tend to skim over the sections specifically on the music but I love the biographical sketches This book reads like biographical program notes so it's enjoyable but it also has several deficienciesIt's badly edited There are grammatical errors throughout and in several sections the author says composer when she means conductor and vice versaThe illustrations are cartoonish and for some inexplicable reason certain passages are boxed in or printed in red I found the format annoyingThere isn't anything ground breaking here and anyone familiar with classical music will know most of the information a

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersA rather nice collection of trivia but probably not in the best format It reminds you a lot of something that you find in say the last page of a newspaper next to a comic strip and horoscopes Some of the little facts or pieces are interesting but it's not something you should read tens or hundreds of pages of at onceIf you are familiar with the composers in the book you probably won't find too much of what you haven't heard before If you are not reading about a bunch of them in a row makes the details mix up in your memory Therefore it's entertaining but forgettable

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersMy goodness what a parade of bullying parents mental illness and adultery That said I feel I know these composers much better overall after reading this series of 6 ish page biographies Yes the odd gets attention than in I expect most biographies But I think that goes a long way to humanizing these folks who at times are put on ridiculous pedestals by people who believe in genius Ms Lunday is often witty and writes very engagingly This is a rich collection and a great pleasure to read

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersFun and entertaining biographies of great composers Would be five stars if the author had cited his sources

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• Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters characters ↠ eBook PDF or Kindle ePUB Secret Lives of Great Composers What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical MastersI was surprised at how accurate the information was in accordance with what I have learned in a school of music

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