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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
by Jeremy Siepmann
Price: Audio Download ($28.79) | Audio CD
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. James Marsters and Joanne Whalley star in this newly produced full cast dramatization.
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Price: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
by Richard Freedman
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far.
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Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.
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Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.
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The History of Theatre
by David Timson
Price: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century...
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Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
From the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Price: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette
Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...
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