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An approach to listening -- Materials of music -- Instruments -- The orchestra -- Instrumental forms -- Opera -- Voices -- Vocal forms -- Styles -- Composers -- Recordings and stereo equipment -- Concert-going -- Historically authentic performance -- Listening guides : Hornpipe, from Water music, Handel ; Marche Slav, Op.31, Tchaikowsky [Tchaikovsky] ; "Little" Fugue in G Minor, Bach ; Symphony No. 38 in D "Prague," Mozart ; Egmont Overture, Beethoven ; II Trovatore (excerpt), Verdi ; The firebird (excerpt), Stravinsky. |
