This is a softcover book, How to Listen to Great Music - A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart by Robert Greenberg. Brought to you by The Great Courses (The Teaching Company), it is a 2011 Penguin/Plume trade paperback.
"In How to Listen to Great Music, Professor Robert Greenberg, a composer and music historian, presents a comprehensive, accessible guide to how music has mirrored Western history, that will transform the experience of listening for novice and long-time listeners alike. You will learn how to listen for key elements in different genres of music - from madrigals to minuets and from sonatas to symphonies - along with the enthralling history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. You'll get answers to such questions as Why was Beethoven so important? How did the Enlightenment change music? And what's so great about opera anyway? How to Listen to Great Music will let you finally hear what you've been missing."
Book is in excellent condition. There's a little cover wear and a crease to the upper right corner of the front cover, but no other issues I can see to mention. Pages are all clean and binding is good, no writing in it. Asking $4.00 obo. Everything I have listed for sale is "or best offer", so feel free to make an offer.
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