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The NPR Classical Music Companion
Miles Hoffman
An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening
Houghton Mifflin
January 1997
320 pages ISBN: 0618619453 Trade Size (reprint)
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An irresistable tour through the lexicon of classical music Confused because you don't know your pianoforte from your
forte-piano? Relax, The NPR Classical Music Companion is the
perfect reference book. Miles Hoffman has compiled an
entertaining guide to the terms and concepts of classical
music, with more than 130 entries including definitions and
etymologies and amusing analogies to help you make sense of
the more abstract aspects of music. “Whether you know a lot about music or nothing at all, Miles
Hoffman will help you think about what you listen to and how
you listen. This book is a great achievement. There's
nothing else out there like it.” -- Wynton Marsalis,
composer, trumpeter, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music
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