![]() ![]() Instead, “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” includes classical music-which the composer prefers to call “nonpop”-from ancient times right up to the present day, from Gregorian chant through electrons and gongs to nonpop fused with pop. Written in response to a student’s plea for help (“I’m desperate! I don’t get classical music!”), the book is not stuck in the distant past. Beginning with patterns, pitches and instruments, author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from performers to shrieking singers to the mysterious classical codes, from Beethoven (“the great hulk of a man”) through space music, tone poems, nationalism, and even composers insulting each other. It is a concise and helpful book with humor and insight written by a composer and performer with a lifetime of experience. ![]() ![]() “Whaaaaaaaaat!? I Don’t Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide” is a tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel classical music is forbidding, complex and grandiose. ![]()
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